The main things I have against analog equipment is (a) cost and (b) convenience. Yes, you can make analog sound very, very good, but it's going to cost more. You can send 1s and 0s across cheap UTP cabling with NO loss in quality whatsoever... you can make unlimited recordings with no generational loss, etc. Also, if SACD and DVD/a would use digital interconnects, your pre/pro would be able to perform bass management, time alignment, equalization, etc. without expensive analog circuitry. Plus there'd be fewer wires.

I'm not anti-analog... but as someone said in one of the other fora, there's a reason analog engineers get paid more than digital engineers.