>Just look at transistor amplifiers. They're technically better, but won't excite most guitarists. If you think that they're technically better, you've fundame

>Just look at transistor amplifiers. They're technically better, but won't excite most guitarists. If you think that they're technically better, you've fundamentally misunderstood the user requirements. Tube amps sound better than purely analog transistor amps, which outweighs all other factors for most guitarists. They sound obviously better, even to a non-musician. You can make a transistor amp sound pretty much indistinguishable from a tube amp through digital modelling, but it requires some very sophisticated DSP techniques that have only become practical in the last few years.