Can a Amp be "timeless" and compete with todays amps?

As another data point, my Ampsandsound Nautilus is modeled after the Harman Kardon Citation 2 which was introduced in 1959. Granted it is not my main speaker  amplifier (I bought it to use as a headphone amp) but when driving my Devore O/93's the sound is different than but just as good as my ARC Ref 150 SE. Your VAC's after a refresh will be right up there with the best of modern anps, imho. 

@teo_audio 

As a lawyer I mediate a lot. It sometimes results in settlement of the pending litigation. The word you are looking for in your spiritual search is "meditation". Also, that is one weird and non-specific post you got there!

OK Ralph, so you are ditching everything you have espoused (if not self-promoted) on this forum for twenty years in order to go all-in to self-promote your new Class D amps. Fine. Let history be the judge! Over 60 years time has proven that the basics continue to be valid and that the newest ground breaking production is two steps forward and three steps back. So go ahead and make a fool of yourself. I will sit back and eat popcorn. With extra butter. 

What this means is its possible to build a solid state amp that is every bit as smooth in the mids and highs as the best tube amps and leave nothing on the table in terms of detail, sound stage and the like, in such a way that vintage amps simply cannot compete (not that they sound bad, just they don’t sound as good). This is one of those things that is easy to hear and easy to measure.

Bruno Putzeys wrote a wonderful article on feedback.

For example in a class D amp that is self-oscillating,

C'mon folks, apply a little critical reading and thinking skills. Read and see what is clearly between the lines. While I had always admired Ralph and thanked him for his participation here (though disagreeing with his continued insistence that higher cartridge loading is always best unless RFI interferes and that correspondingly, RFI is the chief factor upon which cartridge loading should be chosen), there is clearly a theme here towards promotion of his Class D amps. I have to wonder how a customer of Atma-Sphere who just paid 20K+ for a pair of the MA-1's a month ago must feel when it's principal proclaims his own product to be by nature inferior to his new solid state alternative. 

And I am also surprised and even angry at myself to only now notice that Ralph is so reliant upon that which can be measured. 

@larryi 

Great post. I wish you could hear my Ampsandsound Nautilus which is a modern recreation of the HK Citation II. It puts out 8 watts of SE triode. The amp is overbuilt to the extreme. It is perhaps half the size of my ARC Ref 80S and yet weighs the same. I wish you could hear it not because I have any reason to believe it is any better or even as good as your low powered amps but because your impression would be interesting given your library of knowledge and amps.