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Nope. Calling it digital is incorrect.

As I edited right before your post, your light switch is binary. Doesnt mean your lighting is digital.

from Wikipedia:

"Class-D amplifiers work by generating a train of square pulses of fixed amplitude but varying width and separation, the low-frequency portion of whose frequency spectrum is essentially the signal to be amplified. The high-frequency portion serves no purpose other than to make the wave-form binary. Because it is binary, it can be amplified by simple switching. The output of such a switch is an identical train of square pulses, except with greater amplitude. Such amplification results in a wave-form with the same frequency spectrum, but with every frequency uniformly magnified in amplitude.

A passive low-pass filter removes the unwanted high-frequency components, i.e., smooths the pulses out and recovers the desired low-frequency signal. To maintain high efficiency, the filter is made with purely reactive components (inductors and capacitors), which store the excess energy until it is needed instead of converting some of it into heat. The switching frequency is typically chosen to be ten or more times the highest frequency of interest in the input signal. This eases the requirements placed on the output filter. In cost sensitive applications the output filter is sometimes omitted. The circuit then relies on the inductance of the loudspeaker to keep the HF component from heating up the voice coil. It will also need to implement a form of three-level (class-BD) modulation which reduces HF output, particularly when no signal is present."
[ed: bold and underline added for emphasis by me]

I'd say that we can agree to disagree but I am citing references and information, you just keep repeating your same opinion.

If you can provide a different definition of "not digital" I'm interested but by most commonly accepted definitions a class-d amp is a digital switching amplifier that has an analog output via filters.
 
from Wikipedia:

"Class-D amplifiers work by generating a train of square pulses of fixed amplitude but varying width and separation, the low-frequency portion of whose frequency spectrum is essentially the signal to be amplified. The high-frequency portion serves no purpose other than to make the wave-form binary. Because it is binary, it can be amplified by simple switching. The output of such a switch is an identical train of square pulses, except with greater amplitude. Such amplification results in a wave-form with the same frequency spectrum, but with every frequency uniformly magnified in amplitude.

A passive low-pass filter removes the unwanted high-frequency components, i.e., smooths the pulses out and recovers the desired low-frequency signal. To maintain high efficiency, the filter is made with purely reactive components (inductors and capacitors), which store the excess energy until it is needed instead of converting some of it into heat. The switching frequency is typically chosen to be ten or more times the highest frequency of interest in the input signal. This eases the requirements placed on the output filter. In cost sensitive applications the output filter is sometimes omitted. The circuit then relies on the inductance of the loudspeaker to keep the HF component from heating up the voice coil. It will also need to implement a form of three-level (class-BD) modulation which reduces HF output, particularly when no signal is present."
[ed: bold and underline added for emphasis by me]

I'd say that we can agree to disagree but I am citing references and information, you just keep repeating your same opinion.

If you can provide a different definition of "not digital" I'm interested but by most commonly accepted definitions a class-d amp is a digital switching amplifier that has an analog output via filters.

I suggest you look up the definition of digital. It has two states. 1 or zero. At some point it is converted to a "code" of ones and zeros and then is converted back to some kind of output. Class D amps have multiple states, On, off, and a multitude of amplitudes in between. This is not a digital signal, the same way your light switch isnt, even though that is actually closer to a true binary state.

If there is no conversion to code, then it is not digital.
 
If you can provide a different definition of "not digital" I'm interested but by most commonly accepted definitions a class-d amp is a digital switching amplifier that has an analog output via filters.
Read this Thread, the answers given are from people that make Amps for the music industry. It is a great way to learn.
Class D: Analog or Digital? How to tell?
 
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I was concerned about why this is so difficult for some people to figure out. Then I just googled digital amplifier, and things like this pop up from the axiom audio website:

Digital Amplification

Basically, a digital (Class D) amplifier takes an incoming analog signal and converts it into a digital representation comprised of pulse widths. Although there are a number of different design variations, Class D amplifiers are essentially switching amplifiers or Pulse Width Modulator (PWM) designs. The incoming analog audio signal is used to modulate a very high frequency Pulse-Width Modulated (PWM) carrier that works the output stage either fully on or off. Later on, this ultra-high-frequency carrier must be removed from the audio output with a reconstruction filter so that no ultra-high frequency switching components remain to corrupt the audio signals.

I don't endorse this or know a whole lot about class D vs A, AB, C Etc...
 
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I was concerned about why this is so difficult for some people to figure out. Then I just googled digital amplifier, and things like this pop up from the axiom audio website:

Digital Amplification

Basically, a digital (Class D) amplifier takes an incoming analog signal and converts it into a digital representation comprised of pulse widths. Although there are a number of different design variations, Class D amplifiers are essentially switching amplifiers or Pulse Width Modulator (PWM) designs. The incoming analog audio signal is used to modulate a very high frequency Pulse-Width Modulated (PWM) carrier that works the output stage either fully on or off. Later on, this ultra-high-frequency carrier must be removed from the audio output with a reconstruction filter so that no ultra-high frequency switching components remain to corrupt the audio signals.

I don't endorse this or know a whole lot about class D vs A, AB, C Etc...

Except this is wrong. Class D, or pulse width modulation is not digital.
 
Except this is wrong. Class D, or pulse width modulation is not digital.
I agree after everything I've read, but this is exactly why these threads continually pop up. Information from a "supposed" legitimate website with incorrect information. I suppose if it were plastered all over the net that human eyes actually perceive the sky as green and the grass as blue, eventually some people would believe it.
 
Amplifier Class is just a letter. In simplified terms:

Class A refers to an amp that draws the same current at minimum and at maximum output.
Class B draws no current at minimum and most at maximum. They have high crossover distortion.
Class C is an efficient amplifier but it’s distortion is huge.
Class D was the next available letter when PCM and other variants were developed.

There are others but these will do. Until recently most amplifiers were Class AB. These run in Class A up to a point and then in Class B as the signal level rises. Gets rid of the crossover distortion.
 

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