Toughest hombre west of the Pecos?

Robert Mitchum and/or Burt Lancaster
Definetly tubes 'cause their "Old Style".

Actually, Wayne was the toughest man south of the Picket Wire. Wayne would have bashed Clint upside his head with the butt of his Colt. Absolutely no contest. Suprisingly, Clint's the tube guy, with Wayne a very early adaptor of solid state. Despite that, when the smoke clears Lee Marvin is the last man standing.

Eastwood.His early spaggetti's are a cult.Not any disrespect to Wayne however,just different not better.Tubes rule!
George

Definitely Eastwood... By contrast he makes John Wayne look like a mama's boy. Eastwood's just plain has more "grit".

As to my preference in electronics, I go both ways. I like tubes and solid state; and often times mixing the two in the same system is extremely gratifying.

I agree with Onhwy61 - Lee Marvin is the man. If he is in the mood for tubes, he heats up jeep windshields with a flamethrower, rolls them into bulbs, then sucks all the air out of them, and sticks his dogtags inside for getters. If he wants some solid state power, he chews up some KT88s in his mouth and spits them out at high temperature and pressure to make silicon for transistors. I do the same thing with money and things around my house that I don't suspect will be missed, and turn them into audio equipment of both varieties. Like Lee Marvin, I use whatever I am in the mood for at the time, and enjoy both.