Swiss amps. Worth the price?


Is there such thing as Swiss sound? Are they good, anyway? Certainly cost a lot of dead Washingtons.
inna
Inna, could you be a bit more specific with manufacturers? As there are a lot of high end swiss brands, and even within those brands individual components can sound quite different.
I know nothing about Swiss electronics, that's why I asked, just a few names -  FM Acoustics, Nagra, Soulution, DartZeel. Probably heard some others but can't remember right now.
Don't forget the affordable and great sounding Swiss JOB amp from Goldmund. They are well worth the price.

the marketplace says 'yes'. they are popular.

long term resale value says 'yes'.

Swiss build quality is no myth, reliability, performance.

i've owned darTZeel amplification for 10 years. my NHB-108 stereo amp I owned for 7 years. i sold it for more than i paid for it originally after that 7 years and still to this day it is competitive with the very best. i've owned my NHB-458 mono blocks now for 3 years and they are amazing.

I consider the darTZeel to combine the best of tubes in terms of naturalness and a rich transparent mid range along with the speed, low noise, leading edge snap, linearity of solid state. they sound like music.


..I would be concerned about customer support.  Does one ship it back to the manufacturer?  How accessible is it.