Hegel is marketing their products as high end with without the high end price. No thick fancy faceplate, no power meters and if we compare them to entry amps of old, Adcom, B&K, anthem/sonic fronters even Rotel I would give the nod to Hegel. As to there being more used h390’s just look at the price difference. Luxman is up there while hegel int’s are still stepping stones in the big picture of hi end audio. Some of us can pay double for every 5-10% increase in sq and some of us are willing to pay thousands for a fancy faceplate. The Hegel line of integrateds are expensive, but not prohibitively so for those of us getting our feet wet in the hi end audio hobby and offer an audible improvement in quality at their price. Luxman, Accuphase, Gryphon, Krell, etc are a price and step above, but for many of us the hegel is as good as we’ll get.
