Ah yes, lots of fond memories of the AV123/Rocket era. It felt like a great community on the forums back then, and the product being delivers was (mostly) very high quality for the money (until it wasn't).
Shame about Mark, turned out to be a real scumbag. So many lies, broken promises big and small, continuing even until fairly recently as far as I recall - see the Core Power Technologies fiasco which left plenty of Agon forum members waiting ages for their product to show up. Mark supposedly sold that company for "health" reasons only to pop up soon after with a new company called Vera-Fi Audio. None of it makes sense, no idea why industry people seem to give Mark chance after chance after chance when his behavior never changes.