You could argue that for hifi but when amplificating instruments it’s exactly the distorsion produced by those lamp that’s looked for and hard to reproduce with transistors.
Yeah, of course you can use it creatively for distortion and saturation, but you can also do this with semiconductors or DSP and if you are such a snob that you really need that specific sound you can just pay the tax :D
You could argue that for hifi but when amplificating instruments it’s exactly the distorsion produced by those lamp that’s looked for and hard to reproduce with transistors.
Yeah, of course you can use it creatively for distortion and saturation, but you can also do this with semiconductors or DSP and if you are such a snob that you really need that specific sound you can just pay the tax :D
The snob tax !