Don't sell your tube amps

@mbmi 

Class D is coming like a freight train.....Atmasphere in the lower price points and Aavik in the higher end are both on the fore front of making beautiful , magical music. ..the tubey sound we all love without the drawbacks associated with the tubes themselves.m

Maybe or maybe not . Time and the marketplace will decide. If new generation class D causes people to dump their tube amplifiers by the boatload, so be it. One consistent characteristic of high end audio is that new and different is always better. Things do evolve over time. However, not always superior outcomes by default. We all shall see.

Charles

@oddiofyl

I also have no plans to sell my 300b or Mid Monos

You aren’t the only one. The impending demise of vacuum tubes is overstated in my opinion. Tubes and transistors can coexist just as digital and analogue manage to do.

Charles

@erock79 

I suspect tubes will be around and in demand by discerning consumers for a very long time 

Agreed!

As always to each their own. I just think that there will be a certain number of listeners who genuinely appreciate and prefer the natural and believable beauty/presentation well implemented tube components deliver. Many understandably are happy with transistor components. They won’t satisfy everyone (Nothing does).

Charles