I agree that SS can be a tad much with some CD's, but vinyl is pretty much excellent. Tubes do? have an overall more forgiving presentation.
I use all SS with my system but I grew up on tubes so that sound is always in my head, my SS system sounds as good so tubes and I parted ways but I still love tubes. I had a huge vinyl collection but sold it all in the early '90s to a collector out of NY. Never looked back. Nor feel the need to sonic wise and I am a vinyl person since the time I was 10 years of age the collection starts and that was 1961 when my dad purchased 2 LPs for my birthday and I never stopped as I got a job and made my own money the collection continued to grow till 1989. Vinyl by the late early 70s was so poorly made, thin, noisy, warped, etc, oil prices went way up thus the cost of making vinyl was impacted so vinyl was made more cheaply, and a lot of reused vinyl was used. Catalogs of artists back LP's were pulled so lots of LP titles were no more until the release of a new format the CD then all the backlog titles came back into production and that kept going year after year. One LP sold in a month was more than all the LP's sold in a year today. One LP could sell 3 million, some 10 million, and a million copies was considered a major seller. Today I have 1,500 CDs and box sets from the 1930s to the present. Just some of my collections.
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