S.S. design and Tubes are two very good technology with good and bad apples in each groups...
Generalizatrion means nothing here , only synergy between components for specific ears canals and cochlea at the end count...
I just returned back for refund one of the most acclaimed tube amplifier which do not match my S.S. design on any acoustic count ...
Is my S.S. design better than this tubes design ? NO
Is this tube amplifier badly designed ? NO
Why then ?
Synergy matter...
Then all generalization by most people had no real value...
There is bad tubes design and bad S.S. design...
There is supreme good top design in tube and in S.S. , at the end you JUDGE SYNERGY between your components...
Then all threads about digital versus analog or tubes versus S.S. means litlle , because you listen to the synergy between components and room acoustic ...
Nobody had ever listen a tube amplifier or a S. S. design UNCONNECTED to components and in no specific room in the air ...
In another thread a simplistic mind rejected all Sansui deasign in 67 years of production as obsolete compared to a tube amplifier...
I just bought one of the great tube amplifierfew days ago and it does not even compare to the Sansui alpha in the specific synergy WHERE I USED IT. and the components with which i coupled it...
I refuse to bash Tube amplification because of this experience but some simplistic mind will claim that all S.S. amplifier compared to any tube amp are trash...