Analog is obsolete pure digital not class D ...

I've heard something along the lines of the title of this thread for the last twenty years.  Also...."Tubes are Dead".   Love the hand action.....they guy on the right looks like he is conducting an orchestra.  Other readers, please pm for a shipping address if you want to toss your now obsolete kit. Especially the tubes.  Thanks.  ;)

Also, I will freely admit, I like a little distortion. It *feels* good. 

phCollie he would give "Willie and the hand jive" a run.
 yea agreed albums are dead, CDs are dead, even the grateful dead is dead.  

Well, yeah, kind of.

A pure Class D amp is a linear amplifier with a switching output.  There is no A/D or D/A conversion really, instead it relies on a feedback loop to switch on and off.

Technics is using all of that.  A/D, DSP and a switching output without a feedback loop.  It's more of a feed-forward correction.

You could do this yourself, by the way.  Assuming you had the measurement tools you could do this all with a miniDSP type of circuit.

erik_squires would that be an improvement over class D or just a variation of a class D sound which I understand to be light in the bass.
My knowledge is also light on such matters but it sounds like an amp for everyone SS and analog guys alike as headphone and phono stage appear to be  very good