CH, although tube amplification can be designed to produce transparent sound that's equally excellent to solid state designs and is indistinguishable(i.e. it doesn't have a flawed "tube sound"), in many cases tube equipment is inferior with respect to distortion and flatness of frequency response. This is in addition to being much more expensive, so the sensible cost-effective buy is solid state rather than obsolescent tube technology.

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Enjoy the music, not the equipment.