Does biamping w/ SS + tubes work?

I have also been very successful in combining solid state and tubes. Best of both worlds as far as I'm concerned. Match the output levels and let your ears decide.

Thank you all very much. My delimma is over. Rather than post further here, I'm going to start a new thread becaues it might be useful to others not interested in this thread.
Thanks, and thanks again, this is a great place and you are nice folks....

The new thread will be called: MC240 vs 8B

My concern is that I maybe won't get as much "tube sound" overall if I only run tubes on the treble levels and SS on the bass. At least not when using small speakers where the mids comes from the bass element aswell.

River,

I also looked into this a while back. I decided not to pursue, mainly because I didn't want to mess with my speakers, but always thought it was a good idea. This is a good primer: http://sound.westhost.com/bi-amp.htm#separating_sig

To do active biamping right, and assuming you want an amp for your woofers and another amp for mids/highs, you need to take out the speakers' crossover between woofer and mids/tweeter. This is the step I wasn't willing to take.

Then you also need an active crossover between preamp and amps. Rodman's RCS 2.2 is probably one of the best options, but expensive too if you just want a crossover (it does room correction too). Bryston 10-b is another cheaper option. There are also cheaper ones I now cannot recall now. Of course you can have another crossover output for the sub, so triamping in practice, but conceptually the same thing.

I think the above are the right steps to make it work well. I live overseas I cannot get crossovers like this easily, but had I been in the US I would have tried. I did try passively biamping: tube amp with gain adjustment for top, ss for woofer, Rel sub for low bass, and speakers unmodified, and didn't like it better than tubes (MC-275) for the whole bandwidth and Rel sub for low bass. So doing it cheap didn't work for me.

I hope this helps.

Thanks guys. Both reasons why I decided against it.