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Not at all, it's just that the amps that have tubes and sound as good as SS
ones, tend to be cost prohibitive, so what's the point?

If I can get all the wattage I might ever need, and spend 2/3 to 1/10th the
price of a properly functioing tube amp, there's not much to think about,
besides it the fact that so many tube amps do not sound as good as SS that
makes them attractive to tube lovers. They want the inferior performance.

Some do, but then again there are solid state designs that don't
measure well and cost a lot. A priori opposition to tubes on that
ground is triventriliquation.

Most commercially available high end amplifiers are underbuilt and
overpriced, whether or not they have tubes. Commercial products such as
Crown, Crest, QSC and other brands are well made and priced
semi-reasonably from a build point of view but are simply sonically
poorly suited to home use. Simply put they sound mediocre or poor at
very low levels, which is irrelevant for sound reinforcement but of the
essence to audiophiles, unless they have palatial houses and/or are
headbangers with existing partial hearing loss.

Good solid state amplifiers are cheaper to build than good tube
amplifiers, but not radically so, and the tubes do have a certain
esthetic value all their own. I would posit that well designed tube
amplifiers have much longer tube life than is common to many of today's
poor designs, also. I would further posit that if more people bought
tube amps and some R&D were put into better tubes the tubes would
perform even better and last even longer!

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