diff --git a/libs/ardour/ardour/chan_mapping.h b/libs/ardour/ardour/chan_mapping.h
index 7a17e48499..8bd9a99812 100644
--- a/libs/ardour/ardour/chan_mapping.h
+++ b/libs/ardour/ardour/chan_mapping.h
@@ -106,12 +106,24 @@ public:
 #if defined(_MSC_VER) /* && (_MSC_VER < 1900)
 	                   * Regarding the note (below) it was initially
 	                   * thought that this got fixed in VS2015 - but
-	                   * in fact it's still faulty (JE - Feb 2021) */
+	                   * in fact it's still faulty (JE - Feb 2021).
+	                   * 2024-09-03 update: Faulty compile up to
+	                   * VS2022 17.4. From there it compiles but does
+	                   * not link with the exception of the arm64
+	                   * platform. This quirk is actually a bug that
+	                   * Microsoft seems to have failed to
+	                   * acknowledge as such for years judging from
+	                   * web search results about MSVC's std::map,
+					   * and have not even fixed correctly when they
+					   * tried.
+	                   */
 	/* Use the older (heap based) mapping for early versions of MSVC.
-	 * In fact it might be safer to use this for all MSVC builds - as
-	 * our StackAllocator class depends on 'boost::aligned_storage'
-	 * which is known to be troublesome with Visual C++ :-
-	 * https://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_65_0/libs/type_traits/doc/html/boost_typetraits/reference/aligned_storage.html
+	 * In fact it might be safer to use this for all MSVC builds. It
+	 * was thought that this was related to issues with
+	 * boost::aligned_storage, but actually it seems to be that there
+	 * are bugs in the std::map implementation of MSVC that are being
+	 * triggered, messing with the copy constructor of
+	 * PBD::StackAllocator.
 	 */
 	typedef std::map<uint32_t, uint32_t>    TypeMapping;
 	typedef std::map<DataType, TypeMapping> Mappings;
diff --git a/libs/pbd/pbd/stack_allocator.h b/libs/pbd/pbd/stack_allocator.h
index 9eed081ec0..742cf39b6d 100644
--- a/libs/pbd/pbd/stack_allocator.h
+++ b/libs/pbd/pbd/stack_allocator.h
@@ -19,7 +19,6 @@
 #ifndef PBD_STACK_ALLOCATOR_H
 #define PBD_STACK_ALLOCATOR_H
 
-#include <boost/type_traits/aligned_storage.hpp>
 #include <limits>
 
 #include "pbd/libpbd_visibility.h"
@@ -61,22 +60,22 @@ public:
 	};
 
 	StackAllocator ()
-		: _ptr ((pointer)&_buf)
+		: _ptr (_buf.data())
 	{ }
 
 	StackAllocator (const StackAllocator&)
-		: _ptr ((pointer)&_buf)
+		: StackAllocator ()
 	{ }
 
 	template <typename U, size_t other_capacity>
 	StackAllocator (const StackAllocator<U, other_capacity>&)
-		: _ptr ((pointer)&_buf)
+		: StackAllocator ()
 	{ }
 
 	/* inspired by http://howardhinnant.github.io/stack_alloc.h */
 	pointer allocate (size_type n, void* hint = 0)
 	{
-		if ((pointer)&_buf + stack_capacity >= _ptr + n) {
+		if (_buf.data() + stack_capacity >= _ptr + n) {
 			DEBUG_STACK_ALLOC ("Allocate %ld item(s) of size %zu on the stack\n", n, sizeof (T));
 			pointer rv = _ptr;
 			_ptr += n;
@@ -108,12 +107,12 @@ public:
 
 	bool operator== (StackAllocator const& a) const
 	{
-		return &_buf == &a._buf;
+		return _buf.data() == a._buf.data();
 	}
 
 	bool operator!= (StackAllocator const& a) const
 	{
-		return &_buf != &a._buf;
+		return _buf.data() != a._buf.data();
 	}
 
 	template <class U>
@@ -147,12 +146,10 @@ private:
 
 	bool pointer_in_buffer (pointer const p)
 	{
-		return ((pointer const)&_buf <= p && p < (pointer const)&_buf + stack_capacity);
+		return (_buf.data() <= p && p < _buf.data() + stack_capacity);
 	}
 
-	typedef typename boost::aligned_storage<sizeof (T) * stack_capacity, 16>::type align_t;
-
-	align_t _buf;
+	alignas(16) std::array<value_type, stack_capacity> _buf;
 	pointer _ptr;
 };