I grew up with tubes and love them, but for the last 20 years solid state because it sounds so good in its own right. I match amp and preamp currently Mark Levinson 326S preamp and 532H two channel amp that can drive about any speaker made. Runs hot and it can put out some good current, drives my Spatial Audio Sapphire M3's superbly. Don't miss tubes at all while still have my love for them, but you can keep the cost of retubing and QA issues with tubes of today. I used NOS tubes only when I had tubes, the EL34 is still my must musical sounding tubes for amps. I can just sit back and enjoy my system now days without worry about tube rolling to find a sound/coloration that pleases my ear, or if a tube is going bad and such. If I purchased tube gear today it be McIntosh or to save some money Prima Luna, McIntosh has over 60 years in making tube gear, so they know what they are doing, for tube amps I would only buy pure tube that means a tube rectifier in the power supply NO solid state, I want tube gear to sound like a tube gear. Prima Luna does use tube through their amps, so a tube rectifier. Good design and they know what they are doing. Same for a tube preamp 100% tube in the power supply, and simple circuits with beefy power supply where it can kill you if you go in a touch an area you should not touch, I've done that, and it was no fun. Oh, the good old days of the 70's and 80's.
My Sapphires M3's just sing with my Mcintosh MC 402 amp @400 watts and today my Mark Levinson 523H @300 watts along with the matching preamp the 326S. The system sounds as natural as tubes at their best, but with huge dynamics, micro dynamics, ultra-low noise flood where you can hear a violin subside into nothingness. Hear breaths being taken on one recording before the piece starts for the recordings and so on.