For anyone who moved from tubes to solid state — a question

I think we've reached the logical end of this topic, regarding the big picture.

We have these two recent statements:

best of breed tube and solid state are very close now, and ever converging

And the opposite claim:

Tubes and SS are a different paradigm. They approach producing music from different perspectives. My understanding is that tubes are a more visceral experience and SS more intellectual.

Be that as it may, I'm still interested in what someone specifically gave up in order to gain with SS. With as many variables controlled as possible. But maybe this well is run dry.

Like someone else already said here, ZOTL technology seems to be the way to go without any negative  claimed by the 2 camps against each other, in the tubes versus S.S. debate....

I want one and i accept donation.... :)

imagine an easy load no bizare phase angles, gentle slope filters speaker with power factor corrected feed forward amp below 100 hz with 11 bands of analog EQ...amp matched to sub, sub matched to amp, then the high pass goes to a hybrid amp with tube front end, liquid cooling for rock solid bias ( think that thru ), bipolars in a cyclotron floating ground output and a bunch of other neat tricks of amplifier supremely matched to speaker load and sensitivity..

Vandersteen 7 speaker and Vandersteen 7 amp

you can get close for $30k with Quattro and Model 5 amp

as othersstated, but i will paraphrase, unfair advantage when you can purpose design an amplifier for the load, and in this case split the load 

I will say 20 series Ayre amps are super great SS also, very liquid, very musical, harmonically dense...

We have these two recent statements:

best of breed tube and solid state are very close now, and ever converging

And the opposite claim:

Tubes and SS are a different paradigm. They approach producing music from different perspectives. My understanding is that tubes are a more visceral experience and SS more intellectual.

Thing is both of these can be true. Depends on the amps. People can jump and complain but the thing is some tube amps measure as good as SS amps and some SS amps measure as bad as tube amps. The traditional "tube sound"  smoothness is due to the harmonics they distort. It has a pleasant sound that most people enjoy especially with analog. That digital "glare" some complain about is because we're used to hearing the distortion of vinyl and tape played through tubes and think somehow that's the way music should sound. If someone thinks digital glares or is hard edged and difficult to listen to for long have a 3 piece jazz ensemble in your living room and listen to the sax or trumpet and tell me about glare or next time you're in a concert hall listen carefully to the violins and flute/piccolo section. So to cut to the chase to me music sounds more real, instruments naturally have ringing and glare and good neutral SS reproduces it better. 
What did I give up? Distortion.