Unsound, I don't know what you mean by "compromise the signal with analog at all?" It has to be converted to analog somewhere for the speakers to reproduce it (and the amplifier itself). And these errounously called "digital amps",if that's what you are proposing, are just class D amps in which there's is actually nothing digital about them, they are analog units and have been around as early as 1928 long before digital ever came to be. Class D just happened to be next in line after Class C, but these days the marketing just calls all Class D digital. There are a handful of ~true~ digital amps that do the DAC in the input stage (they take a digital signal as opposed to an analog signal (like the Class D amp in your velodyne sub)), but these units still have class D ouput stages. And the output stages is what determines the amplifiers operating class. Class D sucks for the most part. Class A and class B will always offer less distortion if done right. So I'm hedging there's probably less distortion converting the signal over to analog and feeding it to a regular A or B unit as oppossed one of these hybrid DAC/Class D units. The devil is in the detail, but Class D isn't great.
