Tube vs. Solid State Amplifiers

Well if it isnt the super special retired at 40
 guy !!! Yay !!. Clearly you have too much time on your hands. You still have not learned to do a little background on someone before you go on bumping your gums into uncharted T and make a fool of yourself.
AGD chose me because this is a company of substance not façade. Truth and not charade. Same reason I chose AGD. It just so happened they represent the most cutting edge amplifier technology in this industry. While AGD values cosmetic as art, and decided to create the physical embodiment of their circuits within functional sculpture is something that clearly exists in the strata above your melon. (Melone in Italian) People who are passionate about music do not consider anything visual when critiquing how good music sounds. Its why the worlds Artists can look however they want. Something called freedom of expression. Clearly you feel threatened by this so you blindly lash out against it. Art freaks you out because you dont understand it. So what does your super special retired at 40 rhetoric get you here ? Jack Stool. You just missed out on what very well may be the highest performing amplifier yet experienced in HiFi. You let your unfounded, premature judgement of someone you do not know blind you. Very irresponsible and completely passe. Its Anger Management circa 1987. I can tell you right now AGD is not a brand for you. Our switching speed is too high. We have no compatible resonance. McIntosh is your amp. Its got great resale value and everybody knows what it is, right ? Yes. People that understand AGD dont require an exit clause, we know its staying. We knew it 5 minutes into listening. Parting words of wisdom to the guy in early retirement trying to understand HiFi.
The best products in this industry are the ones you’ve never heard of. By the time they become so popular, everyone knows them, its too late . The company has been sold to bankers and the product has had the soul bled from it.

riaa_award_collectors_on_facebook. It appears you dont like it when the narrative does not agree with yours. Its very ironic you dont want me to disagree with a thread , when its OK for you to do exactly what you accuse me of except you want to disparage. Its clear whats important to you and your friends is to limit yourself to the corporate widget brands so that they are easier to sell on the second hand market. Nothing wrong if that’s the goal, because everybody that knows nothing about audio knows those names and thinks they are the top brands and sound the best. This is why people keep selling off gear and buying a different piece. The gear does not do what the marketing says or implies. It falls short and costs a premium. I stand against this practice.
Marketing en full regalia is what investment bankers do. People that push crap they couldnt care less about as its about the profit numbers before the product and how well it performs. In other words you are talking about products that require advertising to sell. AGD Innovates and Innovation is something done in place of buying ads. Besides you can hide nearly anything behind good marketing . Look at William Hung "She Bang" marketing can make anything a superstar. While power selling widgets on Amazon may be your thing, its not AGD’s nor mine. AGD actually cares about building a better amplifier, and does so clearly. Because you hold looks so important, even in an industry where sound is clearly more important, you relegate yourself to old technology and otherwise complete mediocrity. Stereophile just raved about the AGD amp from the show last weekend.  Seems that people who REALLY know high end audio are very impressed with the design.  https://www.stereophile.com/content/agd-gran-vivace-gan-tube-monoblock-amplifier-andante-pre-dac-str...  anyways , have fun listening I cant waste any more time with this. There are roughly 30 pair in the field and many more coming.