EDIT: Apologies Mali ang basa ko dun sa post.
That's my point and that's what I am asking for -- produce a worthy digital modeler beating HiFi DACs. Its budget driving your choice between digital and analog and not sound.
But what if I indeed enjoyed the sound of digital? Yeah it's an HD500 but still. . . anyways, hahaha!
Doesn't that also helps in driving the choices I've made? I'm seriously considering buying a Line 6 Helix once I got enough moolah for it because I really like its feature set.
The sounds as always will be debate-able but for the things I want it to do, it definitely does a great job (particularly standalone rec. interface and amp simulation) because at least for me, once those guitar tracks get into an actual full band mix, I could not care less if they came from tubes or modelers as long as they serve the song.
Again, not saying that tube amps could "ever" be replaced by modelers but for what we can have now? I think modelers are in a very good spot compared to their previous iterations.
Also for recorded / live digital tones, I "liked"
Monuments - Amanuensis
Tesseract - One and Altered State
Intervals
Plini
Sithu Aye
You could definitely see the pattern there and yes they are in no waaaaay the big shot guys but them records sounds absolute ear candy, so yeah.