Tube Pre and SS Power? Or the reverse?

Iʻm a fan of vintage gear.  Iʻd do a tube preamp and a solid state preamp.  Tube preamps I like are the classic Mac C22  along with a Sumo Andromeda power amp.  Iʻve always liked the sound of MOSFET amps from that era.

As I mentioned earlier, I have a C53 and a version VI MC275. I also use my C53 with a vintage MC240 which definitely delivers serious tubey goodness. I love my 275, but it swings more to the clinical side in my opinion. If old school tube sound is what you're looking for, maybe a tube preamp would be a better match with the 275.

Op, the dealer is right. SS pre + tube power is the right way to go. The sound will be coherent, with ss to tube or tube to tube. 

Tube pre and SS amp. Those speakers are hard to drive with a tube amp, but should be perfectly OK with SS. 87db and impedance dipping down to 3.6 ohms are not good for any tube amp. I design and build tube amps and preamps and from my experience no matter if the tube amp has 4 ohms output, they like 8 ohms load. 

You can do much better than Mcintosh. Try Boulder power amp with a valve pre- i use Wavac. If i had to buy US I'd try VAC pre, Boulder power.