/wonders why people are so obsessed with dem toobs.
Looks? OK, that I can understand, but usually circuits with vacuum tubes mean higher cost, higher power consumption and worse measurements.
Which is not to say that you couldn't get all solid state gear that is incredibly overbuilt yet doesn't really work all too well (the audio-gd amps come to mind; apparently this is not uncommon with Chinese audiophile gear in general, see e.g. HiSound MP3 players).