Maybe Leaving SET for Solid State because I want bass

Go nearfield on the main speakers and let them naturally roll off on the bass.  Add a solid state crossover, amp and subwoofer to reinforce the lower range.  

Personally, I don't like the "tube sound" and consider it distortion.  I also don't like "solid state sound" for the same reason.  I have a very clean tube preamp, a tube-hybrid phono stage and honest sounding solid state amps, all Herron electronics  They sound neither tubey or like solid state electronics.  They just sound natural.

Part of this is the fault of a vintage preamp I put in the system for a few weeks. The tone controls showed just how much bass the speakers were capable of, even if the rest of the sound was less than ideal. Why no one makes a modern high end preamp that has tone controls is beyond me. Well Air-Tight does but it's the price of a compact car.

Luxman CL38uC has tone controls.

Schiit makes some cheap equalizers. 

@dhcod 

Perhaps it’s your Mitsubishi’s that are "bass shy" which is the usual compromise engineers make when designing high efficiency speaker systems. Klipsch Horns and LaScala’s are a perfect example. To achieve their ultra-high efficiency, they had to compromise bass extension as in the LaScala where the minus 6dB point occurs around 50hz. Where the Klipsch Horn if not for using the side walls of the room as an extension of the horn would not be capable of it’s minus 6dB point at 38Hz.

The Cornwall on the other hand which applies a different strategy, using the same 15-inch woofer in a front ported alignment can reach down to 35Hz along with a few decibel compromise in efficiency.