I know that some guitarists hate them, but I enjoyed playing my stereo Marshall ValveState (a newer one with an ECC83 instead of the classic 12AX7). I think it

I know that some guitarists hate them, but I enjoyed playing my stereo Marshall ValveState (a newer one with an ECC83 instead of the classic 12AX7). I think it was the right balance between both worlds. You could barely tell it was mostly transistors inside. Well, it was a Marshall after all. That being said I have played the new MG ones and you can feel there is something missing. I once had to repair my circa-1990 Crate GX160, so I bought its schematics. Most of the passive components went into multiple stage filters on every freaking section. Talk about overkill. I doubt you could even hear the effect of some of those filters, but they definitely played safe and took care of designs back then. Except for a few vendors, now it's all about packing as much they can on the digital side and penny pinching on the hardware.