Does a Class D amp match well with Thiel Speakers?

There is an incredible struggle going on in design work.
Design is about 1's and 0's, X's and O's--formulas.
Music is about emotion and feeling, (think Micarelli playing Emmanuelle with Botti or, you name the piece).
The two posters here, duking it out are a perfect example of the thoughts which tug at a designers heart (and to be truthful, purse strings).
At what point does my speaker sound 'flat and neutral', and then at what point does that (even 1/4db difference in output of the tweeter, give it an overly analytical sound, or, God forbid, 'bright and hashy'?
I personally went for this: "The best tweeter I ever heard, I didn't." Try to tuck the tweeter in right beneath the midrange--measures flat, but never, never calls attention to itself. Also, chose a tweeter that doesn't 'spike' in the last octave, (10Khz to 20Khz). At least the last octaves for most of us...(note: does not include your favorite Akita, or Corgi.)
The problem with this 'careful balance of loudspeakers is', that that damn 'free will' thing rears its ugly head.
One designer of a THIEL like sound is realizing that the customer NEEDS some electronic 'help' while another is thinking the exact same thing, but hoping for the opposite 'voicing' of electronics, say Vandersteen/THIEL.

I was wondering if this debate would develop and I'm glad it did.
Personally, I went for a 'really dynamic midrange', flat but not too forward high end...and think that that's what we hear 'live' in an accoustic venue.
The third, most important diminsion in audio is the listener, his/her preferences. Interesting.

Good listening.

Larry

Just wanted to say how much I appreciated (and agree with) Dob's extended explanation of what he is looking for in music and in audio technology. I'm off to listen to Itzhak Perlman this evening, and I certainly hope I don't find myself analyzing the sound stage or the detail I'm hearing, both because he is a wonderful musician, and because it will be live, so what I hear is what there is.

I'm reminded of a chamber concert I went to a couple of months back at a local church. My wife and I were sitting about 5th row, the quartet was up on the "stage." I remember at one point thinking that I couldn't locate the instruments with pin-point accuracy, there wasn't a lot of depth to the soundstage and ... I remembered this was a live performance, not me sitting at a dealer evaluating equipment. Whatever I was hearing was what the musicians were doing, even if it didn't fit the vocabulary that is typically used when reviewing audio equipment. So of course I said "stop this, enjoy the music" and I did. Reminds me of a separate thread somewhere which made the point that when we listen to audio at home, we're listening to microphone placement and equalization and equipment, lots of stuff which isn't really the music or performance itself, so we develop a vocabulary to fit, which again isn't the vocabulary that would be appropriate for the performance itself. Which I believe is exactly what Dob said very well in his post.

I don't think using live music as an example is any kind of valid argument against detail or any other aspect of good sound in home audio.

Yes, live performances are the benchmark that many of us strive to achieve at home.

Detail and all the rest DONE WELL helps achieve that. It's not done in opposition to that goal.

And if someone decides to do what they do for other reasons, more power to them. As long as they enjoy the results.

There really is not a substantive audio correlation between listening to live music and listening to music being reproduced on a high end system. Thus, they are both 2 entirely different musical experiences without being right or wrong regardless of how well both are executed. However, I still want to hear (if possible) much detail in a live setting as opposed to just a wall of sound.

Does anybody like the preamplifier BAT VK-42SE?

Mapman, Tommy: I was not trying to create an opposition between listening to live music and listening to audio. Nor was I arguing against detail, "air," sound staging, or any of the other terms we use when evaluating an audio system. But what I was trying to say is that what I value most about my system, i.e. the moments which I wish would occur more often, are those when I'm listening at home, and rather than being conscious of the detail, etc., I suddenly sit up a little straighter because for a moment (usually with solo voices) it sounds like the singer is actually in my room, and I go "wow, that's amazing." So in fact I'm agreeing 100% with Mapman when he says that detail and the rest, done well, achieve a bit of that benchmark of the live performance; I'm just happier when they are working their magic at a sort of subconscious level. And I haven't forgotten where this thread began, with a question about class-D amps and Thiels. As I said in my first posting, my combination of class D ARC amp and tube ARC pre, with Maggies (since I have no experience with Thiels) does, on occasion, provide that little bit of that magic; it is very possible that other combinations may provide that magic even more consistently.