Now one of the companies that helped push Class D into the mainstream is taking another run at those remaining objections. The new design comes after years of work, an old patent discovery, and some unusually stubborn engineering problems.

On paper, the result gets into territory that would have sounded unrealistic not long ago.

Full story: https://www.headphonesty.com/2026/08/company-made-class-d-popular-rebuilding/?utm_source=fb&utm_campaign=caption

Thousands of listeners voted on which tracks do this best, and while some picks are the typical songs you’d likely expect, others have caught us off guard.

The genres range wider than you’d expect, and the number one track dominated the vote by a wide margin.

Here’s the full list: https://www.headphonesty.com/2026/05/tracks-audiophiles-play-convert-skeptic-hifi-believer/?utm_source=fb&utm_campaign=caption

And before you start in on shielded Ethernet cable, that was never intended for anything other than very short cable runs in applications that need the e-field shielding for reducing radiated emissions for secure communication isolation.

But also a lot of these things do have a purpose, but the snake oil comes from what people claim the purpose is, or that it will solve problems that don’t exist. Like shielded cables, if your system is quiet you don’t need them, but sometimes you’ve got some interference that does require a shielded cable.

Ryan Brown I’ve always gotten a benefit from music shielded cables in the recording world. I would never even consider using unshielded cables for anything that can use them

Some cost hundreds, others tens of thousands, yet none deliver what physics would allow.

Let’s take a closer look at 15 of the worst offenders that continue to sell anyway in 2026.

Full list: https://www.headphonesty.com/2025/10/worst-snake-oil-products-break-laws-physics/?utm_source=fb&utm_campaign=caption

But Bill Voss, Technics’ Business Development Manager in the U.S. says that belief is not quite accurate, and the surprise is not where most people assume it is.

Full story: https://www.headphonesty.com/2026/01/modern-turntables-not-analog-executive/?utm_source=fb&utm_campaign=caption

People pay that anyway, because of how the midrange feels and because of how the amp holds its grip on a difficult speaker.

Those two things have kept the argument alive for twenty years. But now, the Danish company that put Class D in the mainstream spent the last stretch of its independence building something aimed straight at them.

Full story: https://www.headphonesty.com/2026/08/company-made-class-d-popular-rebuilding/?utm_source=fb&utm_campaign=caption

Even if directionality were a thing, it would merely mean your directional component was severely faulty and your music permanently distorted.

Directionality == distortion.