Solid State vs. Tubes - What if Transistors came first?

With all the tube amps I've built/owned/modded (SE, PP, ect). The better I made them sound and measure, the closer to the better transistor amp/s they got.

Cheers George

What if CD came before LP, and the automobile before the horse drawn carriage, Baby Doc Duvalier before Papa Doc, and what if trolls came before the Internet was invented? The mind boggles.

erik wrote:
". . . Peter Walker’s conclusion was that all well-designed amps operated below clipping will sound the same."

A Peter Azcel posit? (The Audio Critic)

Just because two amps can be made to sound identical, it does not follow that all amps sound identical.

For example, I can cripple my class A amps and make them sound like any number of indistinguishable mid-fi offerings. I doubt if Walker would fail to hear differences between high end built-to-a-price-point and cost-no-object DIY.

The big problem with tubes is that there are damn few positronic ones.

Trolls were living under bridges before the internet. Wish they would go back. Tubes were the gateway to this little hobby of ours.