New Adcom power amps?


Have anyone had a chance to audition any of the Adcom amps?  $2,399 for 450 wpc @ 8ohm sounds (no pun intended) like a good deal.

http://www.adcom.com/product_gfa585se.php


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I'm watching the Adcom site, hoping for some kind of price break after Christmas.  If I can snag one of their amps on discount, I will.  I'm intrigued at the favorable comparison with the Parasound A21.

I've currently got a GFA 5400 that I recently acquired.  It's about 19 years old and sounds surprisingly good.  
Well I guess the sale price was too good, I just ordered a GFA 555SE.  Reg price was 1299 for 200wpc and it looks like 70 amps per channel max, yikes!  The sale price on the Adcom.com site is almost 300 off.  Hey Wolf, I think I saw one with your name on it.  

I sold off a halo A21 almost a year ago and have been dabbling in NAD. We’ll see what the Adcom can do.
I saw their ad in the classified section.  Those big amps look pretty impressive, but I'm just running bookshelf speakers these days, and don't need all that power.

I did some more checking on the GFA 555SE, and I was wrong about the maximum current pre channel.  My Parasound A21 was listed at 60 amps per channel, and the 555SE doesn't do 70A, it does 80A.  The brochure on the website also says it's stable down to 1 ohm!    


No, they never went out of business.  They’ve been bought and sold a couple times like many other such companies, however.

They are based in Arizona and when I dealt with them several years ago, Stan Brown seemed to be a key guy in customer support.