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Some people really do not like the vacuum tube, or the fact that some
audiophiles really like them and persist in still building tube
equipment or buying it from "boutique" or high end vendors. You know
who they are.

The thing is, what motivates this obsession with denigrating and
deterring users of vacuum tubes? Are unhealthy, often destructive
pathologies at work here?

Yes, if one considers such a pathology an inability to separate the
subjective and objective.

Music + solid state = Music
Music + tubes = Modified Music

Modified Music is held to be more enjoyable than Music by many listeners.
But some beings believe it is their mission to tell others how to pleasure
themselves.
These beings usually have pointy heads and consume mass volumes of
mammoflesh for nutrition.

Personally, I listen exclusively to solid state. Nevertheless, it is invalid
for me to impose my beliefs on another individual, as much so as prescribing
what kind of music that person should listen to.

Recently, I became aware of a gathering at a local hifi watering hole where
apparent mutual reinforcement of tubophilia were conducted in an environment
of musical pleasure, while listening to a distorting medium known as
"vinyl." The subject of comparison was Sonny Rollins's "Way Out West",
played both as a CD and vinyl. The group-think of the evening was that vinyl
and tubes were "better" than CD and solid state.

Although the reasoning may have been flawed, it is nevertheless the case
that the participants experienced a mental state known as "fun", which
appears to be a form of release from pressures of everyday life, accompanied
by hedony and group interaction. It does not appear that there was mass
consumption of nutritional substances, although small quantities of
something called "orderves" were supplied, as well as an intoxicant with a
red color.

These are the only relevant facts.