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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The market share the luddites comprise of is extremely small and shrinking daily. It’s sometime hard to realize this if you only use audio forums to gauge the state of todays high end audio. Because the vocal minority like to make their opinions heard.

If you want to know the real state of todays audio, talk to the worlds best audio ASIC engineers. The work they’re doing is the future.

Henry Ford once said "If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses". The people he was referring to is the luddites. They are still as prevalent today as the have been for centuries.
["Class D is affordable and sounds as good or better the SS/Valve why buy anything else ?"]

Because amplifying speakers is tripy. 

I use different iterations of all three and none can do everything the others do which becomes especially poignant when amplifying electric and double Bass.

Just bought a Zwilling 38405 wide chefs knife despite the versatility of my thirty-two year old Swiss Army knife. Obviously, they're both better than one another. 
Clinical, synthetic and more which the human ear does not want.Digital will never sound as good analog, its to clean!
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I don’t think being old make you regid for new changes! I saw in class D amps also, some users bashing new designs/models and show some strange zealous behavior toward specific models.
I guess most of class D amp designers are member here but scare to talk because of PC.
Btw I like your binary attitude toward amp design but most don’t, maybe because of your business interest!