. When it comes to real physical stuff such as reverbs in a church, it's almost impossible to emulate, not because of the reverb, but because of the nature of the sound source. Take violin for instance, it's not infinitely small point in space as we consider it when processing (with reverbs, both analog and digital). The amazing thing is the propagation of the sound waves from each point of the body, impossible to simulate really.But electronic? Sorry, but it will die eventually
. Because:1) The electronic signal is just a signal, same as digital, with more accuracy when it comes to representation, but far less accuracy when it comes to processing. You take that signal, process it with electronics and sample it... so eventually it becomes digital anyway. So whatever it was before, it just became some sort of signal.
2) The most important question is not if we can emulate electronics, because simply WE CAN, period. Hence it will die. But the main question for me, is it even worth considering spending time on such thing? You say yes, I say no
, well, we'll have to agree on disagree.I have talked to way too many people listening to the same signal and thinking one of them is better. Humans are just too easy to persuade that something is better from the big companies spending trillions on that propaganda (I understand that, it's business) and they can also persuade themselves
. I know that, I'm doing it too . Everyone time you buy something expensive you just need to persuade yourself it was a good thing . That's what Apple is based on .
Is this a feasible position? You cannot sustain this paranoid arrogance! 
You see, analog is fine, we can get some inspiration from it, but we must not be blindfolded by our habbits and brainwashing 