Another marketing gimmick?

dweller-

you're on to something....let's collaborate$$$$!

Perfect for the buyer "innovative stuff?"

A look at the manual, and it appears the designer even put orange LED's in the faux tube. This thing is just....odd.

It better sound good for $14K! Plenty of SS amps for less, that sound great.

I wouldn't be surprised the amp sounds great. It's a $14K amp, with the latest transistor technology-it should!
https://www.audiogon.com/listings/lis9b494-agd-productions-vivace-monos-gallium-nitride-newest-techn...

The circuit in a tube thing just seems CORNY. It's a high performance amp-great. That kind of aesthetic however, belongs to low end Best Buy stuff.
To each his own.

A quick check of electronic device history indicates the GAN transistor is far from a "new" breakthrough.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallium_nitride

I took electronics 101 classes in the early 80's. Don't remember if Gallium was ever mentioned as an alternative material to silicon,for a semiconductor. 

What I clearly remember, is the Apple II computer was about to change EVERYTHING. That's at least, what the computer nerds kept telling me.

One instructor who was into audio, believed digital was going to blow everyone's mind, in the not too distant future. He thought vacuum tubes were stone age devices, and wrote them off.