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I've got an old tube integrated amp I've been using it in many ways, particularly when I've bought my first CD player.

Unison Research S6 integrated. Handles well, smooth with plenty of power.

It is the same problem as LPs. Too much maintenance.

Only play in the winter runs to hot in the summer

I have two sets of amplifiers in the main system, both tubed, both triodes, both amazing, but each fairly different in tech from one another (David Berning Seigfried vs Manley Labs NeoClassic 300B). Tubes are just devices that engineers paint with, and having tubes in your amp doesn't guarantee great sound—but, regardless of technology (tube or SS), having a brilliantly engineered product does just about guarantee great sound!

Both of my audiophile friends that corrupted me have tubes and recommended them as a way to go. Two salesmen I worked with were biased towards tube gear. Before I went shopping I was convinced tubes were the way to go. I

Audible Illusions Modulus III preamp and Dyna ST70 amp Don't plan on ever going back to solid-state.

Why is it that a 10Wmusical instrument amplifier such as a guitar amp will in real life (and on stage) get loud enough to split your brain in half, yet it seems to take mega bucks and major stereo gear with 100s of watts to reproduce the same sound in your living room, a room that remains a fraction of the size of a live performance? Perhaps it's because everyone is going about it wrong, confusing convenience with performance. Ah!, Tubes.

Still happy after 11 years with the same tube amp/pre combination.

A Jadis integrated and a Prima Luna. Both sounded very good on some types of music, but overall not worth their money.

Is there really any other choice???

I have always tried to eke as much performance out of my system as possible but always found that at some point (especially with digital sources) you get a case of "the glares" where the highs just hurt. And for many years I chalked it up to "definition" especially playing some of the mainstream pop/rock stuff that is available and I like to listen to (in toher words, crappy recordings). So with all of the recent press tubed stuff has been getting, I thought what the heck, and decided to try a tubed pre since I was in the market for one. One word: WOW! I will never go back to SS as my pre—ever! Music has a musical quality, a flow, a reality, a depth that I have never heard with just a SS system (any SS system for the that matter, and I've heard a few). Now all you naysayers out there may call it distortion of the original signal, but if you listen to the music, truly listen, you'll know it sounds more like music and not like a dentist drilling your teeth. :) Best analogy I could think of! Tubes rule!

Both of my audiophile friends that corrupted me have tubes and recommended them. Two salesmen I worked with were biased towards tube gear. Before I went shopping I was convinced tubes were the way to go. I

Far and away better and more involving than solid-state. Analogous to the difference between CD and vinyl.

Headaches

I have never used transistors!

I'm planning on having a Dyna Stereo 70 rebuilt by Van Alstine. In its early days it gave me far and away the best sound I could get on a pair of Rogers LS3/5as that I still cherish and plan to hook up again.

Wouldn't live without a tube somewhere in my system. Currently in phono stage. But I still have sweet dreams of my old all-tube system. Unfortunately I needed to cash that system out a number of years ago.

A Scott 299B from late '50s, rebuilt by Mapleshade, running a pair of Von Schweikert VR-4s. Sounds great.

I have tubes in the CD player, preamp and amp. I guess you can count me as one of those "back in the day" guys.

All tubes!

My tubed amplifier lets me enjoy the music more.

Yes, and it was an absolute, unmitigated, unalloyed disaster. It virtually never worked properly, blew up repeatedly, and neither the dealer nor the manufacturer would take adequate responsibility for it. I experienced a level of frustration high enough to adversely affect my health, and ended up wasting large amounts of time and losing thousands of dollars. It was the #1 worst purchasing decision of my entire 49-year life as a consumer. In any category. Bar nothing.

It's a Jadis DA 30. I bought it 15 years ago and I'm glad I did.

Warmer sound... I love my little tube amp this is used to move two 5" Vifa woofers with a Vifa. Best soun ever for such a little system. I have two transistor amps and I love them too one runing with B&W 802, and the other costum made spakers. I don't think one is better than the other. Some amps sound better with some speakers. Find the right match! Transistors have a better control on bass, tube have a better mids Ideal for vocals and Baroque classical ( Bach, Mozart). Transistors are better for jazz, rock, modern classical (Stravinsky, Mahler).

BAT VK-51SE BAT VK-150SE's BAT VK-P10SE. Totally tubular.

For me, tubes are the way to go!

My whole system is tubed. Single-ended triodes rule.

I started with a preamp and liked it so much I got a tube power amp about a year latter.

Everything has it's place.