VAC preamps - too expensive?

Sounds like Vac Products require lots of maintenance. What do they do to it and why is it necessary? Super inconvenient for a quality product

@mulveling 

Thank you for your great comments. My trollish rhetoric is due to the frustration I had trying to make a decision about this vac preamp, which was plan to be incorporated into a Home theater arrangement when used for stereo listening.

Unfortunately, vac does not make a remote that allows input changing despite offering a home theater button on the face of the component which is kind of weird. My family didn't like this functionality and that trumped it's performance qualities and plus it may have been located in a separate room. I did buy a different preamp at a very comparable level so everybody was happy

Why these guys don't put this type functionality on the remote is beyond me and when I spoke to a person at the company about this issue they seemed a bit arrogant which I can live with should I have chosen to buy the unit.  It wasn't the owner guy. Nevertheless who knows where I may end up and maybe Vac Will honor a spot somewhere under my roof.

Having a remote that controls the input Will not affect sound quality. Vac is charging a premium for the product and it would be nice with a remote that's fully functional.

The company is too stubborn to offer this feature. 

D'Agostino offers a remote with Bluetooth. 
vac Products are very overpriced like so many other audio components.

Vac goes with everything. Everything