With respect, I'd argue the opposite. The new club of high end amps (CH, Audionet, Dart, Gryphon, Constellation, etc.) are at the fore front of SS development and discovery that go leaps and bounds above and beyond all type previous amps evidenced in ultra - realistic, crystal clear, ultra - fast transients, live - like dynamics while providing incredible speaker - controlling sound. Solid state amplification has truly come of age (as has the digital source btw).
When SOTA SS amp(s) are paired with an equal quality source and speakers the results I hear in systems (I'll add mine to the list) are the closest I've ever heard to virgin playback in a recording studio and to live music. And this, I believe is why I see / hear in most of the highest end systems many owners migrating from tubes to SS. One example - a local friend moved from 2 pair of VTL Siegfrieds to CH Precision monoblock amps and the level of, simply put, realism is astonishing. In particular the ability to deliver razor - sharp transients coupled with equally stunning dynamics made any injected VTL tubey goodness irrelevant and, in retrospect simply inaccurate. YMMV.
