Anyone tried out Vincent Audio Intergrated?

That Vincent 236 integrated is a beast...a friend has one and it's a serious piece of gear that's imposingly larger in person than in pics...and sounds really good.

Isn't this amp basically the house brand for one of the larger catalog retailers? They seem to market their gear toward the less technically savvy audiophile. They include things like tone controls and remotes, and place an emphasis on 'modern' conveniences. I believe they are a German-owned company which assembles primarily in the far East (probably china). I've not heard about long term reliability with the Vincents. I've always been just a little bit suspicious of them, even though I've had success with another amp mfg who builds in China. However, Vincent markets as an 'upscale' line, and doesn't much admit where they manufacture - you have to really dig around their site.

rwineer, as best as i can ascertain vincent is the trademark of a german company, sintron, which outsources its production to the chinese company shengya. shengya also markets its own branded,lower-priced identically-spec'd products; it's not crystal clear whether the shengya-branded products are identical to the vincent-branded products, or which company designs which (according to 6 moons, some models are common to both brands, while others are specific to asian/western markets). irrespective, as i've noted above, the vincent products i've heard are superb and very, very good values. this is not bose--i.e. overhyped stuff marketed to the unwary--but very well-reviewed, real audiophile-grade gear which is carried by reputable dealers.

Ok,that's very good to know. I didnt mean to impugn it; I just had some reservations. Thank you for removing most of them for me. :)