Tubes can have VERY different sounds to them. As such, they do offer slightly greater versatility in terms of being able to alter tonal / spatial characteristics much easier than you can with SS gear. Then again, if your not into "tweaking" i.e. tube swapping to "fine tune" the characteristics of the system, you might end up with TOO much of a "good thing" with a tube front end and a tube preamp. Of course, this is all a matter of personal taste as some folks would say that you need to get rid of ALL of your SS gear in order for things to sound "good". Sean
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