chord (the electronics company, not the cable company) has a long and illustrious history, and also a penchant for thinking things through from first principles and not following common trends, conventional wisdoms
i have not had chord preamps or amps, they were certainly early adopters of switch mode amps and power supplies, in fact their quite successful and excellent dacs ship with outboard smps’s but of course, there is ample filtering inside the units
that way i see it, it is very nice a company like this exists in this space, cool stuff, cool thinking, excellent sonics speak for itself, cost of the gear is often high, but one can sense the excellence within... a value add for the industry and end user choice