Class D is affordable and sounds as good or better the SS/Valve why buy anything else ?


I have spent a fair amount of my hard earned money on big ticket brand new SS and VT/Valve amplifiers over the years without hesitation, with state of the art 2019 class D amplifiers becoming cheaper and sounding better, i wouldn't join in again.

For older technology amplifiers SS VT/Valve to compete with State of the art class D, Their prices are going up and up.

One example is Pilium Audio from Greece or Bulgaria their Divine Line the prices are all over £100,000 for their pre amps and power amps, I know the UK importer he said they sound OK,

Another example FM Acoustics again up to and over £100,000 for pre and power amps. i have owned FM Acoustics pre and power again their OK,

I am not saying they do not sound good, i am saying why spend this much when state of the art class D probably sounds as good now and can only improve with the GaN capacitors and is nearly up to 100 times cheaper.

Is there still a market for multi thousand £$s SS or VT/Valve amplifiers ?

When class D finally overtakes SS VT/Valves what will people do with their multi thousand £$ amplifiers, keep them knowing there is something better ? Or will we see the market flood with exotic used amplifiers ?

Digital technology is rapidly growing pace and becoming cheaper, with GaN capacitors being introduced the sound is going to get better and better and will slowly or quickly become even more affordable.

If you had 50,000 to spend on an Amplifier, would you buy a high ticket SS amplifier and hope for the best ?

Would you stay safe and go with high ticket valve amp, class D can never match good valves right ?

Or would you sit tight and see how the GaN capacitors can further improve the performance of state of the art class D ?

Please feel free to join in, everybody is welcome, i think its a very delicate/touchy discussion for some people with big bucks invested in older type amplifiers.
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I think Colin at Nord can sell you a pair of his input boards. They're an easy swap. With the Rev D boards, you can choose from over 20 discrete opamps that are compatible. Some are very analog sounding. Drawback is if you want to experiment a lot, it will get expensive. If you want a tubey sound try the Sparko's. They're about as tubey sounding as I've ever heard. 
My current amp is nine years old. I like it. I see no reason to go buy another brand of amp since mine sounds just fine. IF for some crazy reason I bought another amplifier. it would most likely be the same brand as my current one. Call me conservative. To me, buying an unknown Class D amp would be like asking me to jump off a cliff. Rave reviews mean nothing....
As Groucho Marx quipped to the contestant who said she had nine children, I like my cigar, too, but I take it out sometime.
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The music quality coming from an audio system is the results of too many factors apart choice of amp. and other components to be reduce to an only one choice link in the complete chain of factors... There is no amplifier that solve the problem of hi-fi quality by himself...The samething can be said about any components...There is not one crystals of snow identical to another one...There is not one audio system that does sound the same,even with the same basic components,because of the multiple others factors in addition to the amp. and dac or speakers and cables, turntables etc...