2x6:
It's perfectly fine for you to enjoy tube gear. It's kind of analogous to appreciating vintage automobiles. I love the old 1950s cars (a friend has a refurbished '57 Chevy Bel Aire) that I rode around in as a teenager. But I wouldn't suggest that those clumsy old boats drive and handle anything like a modern Honda or BMW.
It's nostalgia, affection for older technology, so enjoy it as such. But suggesting that tube gear has mystical or magical properties is ridiculous. The comment about shopping for a tube-driven computer is apt. One of my early jobs in broadcasting was at local TV station that owned and still used one of the first professional Ampex black&white videotape recorders. It was an all-tube unit that occupied and entire room--racks and racks of tube gear. It generated so much heat that it had its own dedicated air-conditioning system.
If you follow the tube analogy through, that vacuum-tube design somehow confers superior performance through unexplained and mysterious circuitry or some other magical properties, then it would only make sense for us to use tube-based VCRs to achieve more realistic image reproduction, wouldn't it?
Regards,
