If it’s OK for you, it’s OK with me, but not FOR me. Class D is everywhere and will continue to coexist with the rest of the alphabet. I have some old Emotiva Class D amps in my surround sound system. When I use the room-EQ gadgets on my surround pre-amp, movies, TV and concerts sound pretty darn good--even on YouTube. But there’s a reason why I have another set of electronics for stereo music and critical listening.
It all opens up the question of ’reference’. What is it? Especially for audible art that has been frozen in time by various recording methods? Whatever we listen to, the original sound lasted no more than a few seconds. Yet it’s the only reliable reference I know--live acoustic performance. Let’s admit there’s no reference at all for most of the mediated sound we hear every day. It’s mostly digitized, time-shifted and duplicated to the point that even watching ’live TV’ is really an illusion. The signal has gone through so much electronics that time becomes fungible. Hopefully, a Time Bank will eventually allow us to save, borrow and spend Time as we wish. Just let’s all be careful to maintain some sort of phase integrity!
