I'd also note that the Foreplay uses ss, and with a snubber added I haven't seen posts complaining that that aspect of the design limits its musicality.

On the other hand, my Welborne Laurels use tube rectification and sound glorious!

FREDs and tube rectifiers don't have so much of this problem,
thus are less prone to putting "hash" into the circuit.
Also, tube rectifiers have the slow warmup built-in,
always a good thing to use to prevent possible cathode stripping
in power tubes. A well-designed amp would optimize layout and DC
supply filtering to use silicon rectifiers properly, so it's often
a wash as to which is "superior" to the others.

Now, if you're a hobbyist building your own tube amp, and you don't
have lots of time to sit and build multiple revisions of the chassis
and test each one for noise floor, a tube rectifier is handy. If
you want a recommendation for a DIY amp, I'd say use damper diodes--
they are extra-rugged and usually have very slow warmup.