I guess I have had pretty good luck with my Class D amps. I had a Peachtree Nova 300 running ICEPower modules, and it sounded pretty good. I now use a NAD C298 with Purifi modules (using a ProJect PreBox RS2 Digital preamp) and it sounds great. I also have a Peachtree Carina 300 (Hypex modules) and a Peachtree Carina GaN and they each sound excellent, not "dry." The ProJect has a selectable preamp tube stage for a little of that warmer tube-distortion sound. I would say the Class D amps I have tried deliver what I expect, lots of low distortion clean power and a dead silent background. I have other tube amps, a modded and tube rolled Willsenton R8, which as a push-pull tube amp is as different to the class D amps as might be possible but still with a dead silent background and excellent sound. I think class D offers tremendous utility in space-constrained applications (like car audio and plate amps for powered speakers and subs) while offering much of the performance of AB designs without the energy and weight penalties.