verdict on class D amps?

Try some in your system.

Put five audiophiles in a room, and they will all choose different amps...digital, solid state, tube...it doesn't matter.

Only you can decide if a digital amp will deliver what you seek.

Ignore Coffeey and Stanwal.

They are dinosaurs refusing to enter the 21st century.

Neither of them has a clue.

Here is a useful thread on The Absolute Sound's website: http://www.avguide.com/forums/digital-amp-advice-maggie-36
I'm not unbiased, since I'm using an ARC 150.2 (what ARC calls "class T" but the rest of the world would call "class D") with my old Maggies, so in the referenced thread, I find Chris Marten's comments the most useful.

Coffeey and Stanwal suffer of Audiophilia Nostalgica, a very painful form of the more common audiophilia nervosa that we all suffer from.

Rather, go listen to various switching (class D or T) amps and decide for yourself if any of them are for you. . . they can sound as different from one another as birds in a forest. G.

Verdict???
There is and always will be something better :-)
Thats a guarantee.

And it will ultimately come down to the speaker its paired with... However I will say none of the digital designs I have heard over the last 10 years will match any Pure Class A amps done well.. Solid state or Tube, so to me I still gotta deal with some Heat, or low efficiency, or reliability... Thats all people want class D for, to save 3 dollars a month in electric, have no heat off the amp, or simply worried about buring up a tube, and finally because they just have a speaker requiring excessive power and want enough power on tap for cheap dollars.

Nothing wrong with those reasons so if it works for you do it!