Switched From Tubes To SS???Glad You Did???

To Viridian:Why are you selling off the tube gear & what simple SS gear are you going to?Thanks to all for your replies...

Thanks Viridian.My problem is that as a retired soldier my pension is stretched to the max & I have to buy for the long term,which is why I drive everyone crazy with question after question regarding which path to take.Plus it doesn't help that my grail speakers are Dynaudio's which I will admit sounded FANTASTIC driven by the 40 Tube Watts from the Yaqin I just flipped(due to it's developing some problems after I dropped it on it's head).I guess when all is said & done I'm gonna stick with the glass,for me it just makes since in the long run...Take care...

I thought I would update this as I have just removed the Cayin CS-55 tube integrated amp/Micromega MyDAC & installed a near mint,barely broke in Creek Evolution 50a with the Ruby2 DAC board...
It’s only been an hour now but initial impressions are pretty good.Surprised at the imaging & staging,good depth & width though height seems a bit compacted,tone sounds pretty good but drums don’t seem to have that organic tube sound..Where I hear a HUGE difference is when the volume goes WAYYY up,where my tube amp runs out of gas & becomes glassy & hard the Creek amp REALLY loved the volume,pressurizing the 8" woofer & decent size cabinets of the M30.1 monitors like I haven't heard since I bought them...I'm starting to get a good view of SS/Tube systems...

Well I've got about 20 hours listening in with the new amp.It's good,a LOT better than I expected,especially regarding imaging & staging, but it just doesn't quite have that "organic"feel.Drums especially don't have that hear into the skin tone the tube amp has.I do notice leading edge dynamics seem crisper,hearing farther into the string just as the note is struck on guitars,sustain seems a touch better as well...One thing I find funny is the headphone circuit is WONDERFUL,every bit as good as the triode driven circuit in the Cayin..Here the drums DO have that organic feel I'm missing from speakers..I wonder why the difference?
 

Today I demo’d the Hegel H590 driving Harbeth M40.2’s,I would KILL to have room for those speakers but I digress..After I got home I pulled the Creek Evo50a out & put the Cayin CS55 back in..Nothing else was changed.WTH was I EVER thinking.There was a reason 12+years ago I went over to tubes..
IMO you can throw $$$ after $$$ on SS chasing the "sounds like tubes"sound & you will never get there,there is no substitute!
PS:I need to hear a good hybrid...