That may have been the case 10 years ago but more and more studios are becoming more and more digital. Analogue external equipment is still used of course but when a big desk from someone like Neve or SSL has all the compressors, EQ, gates, reverbs, and so on that you need in 80% of situations then only a few bits of external kit are used for special effects and even then they may also be digital.

See much external?  Genelec speakers by the way, NOT ATC or PMC lol!

Even here there is not really very much.

I can see a few bits of analogue EQ, valve compressors and so on but not the sort of thing that gets used all over the recordings.

The other thing is that going through some opamps is a bit different from being pulse width modulated, sent through a huge inductor, filtered and everything else.

Most of all though, I just don't want to do it! Why have such complexity when you don't need to? In the end I plan to have digital amps on the bass drivers since I like the efficiency of them and then a lower powered standard SS amp for the mid and tweeters.

Not sure! They are not going to be cheap though. Someone on DIYAudio had a pair for sale but didn't list the price.