$39,000.oo Aavik Acoustics U-380 Class-D integrated amplifier

Look let’s get to the crux of the matter. No piece of hifi electronics costing $40k, the cost of a decent luxury car, is a good value.

Hopefully stuff costing that much at least is capable of sounding good to go along with the bling because lots of gear for a fraction of the cost does.

Maybe by pushing the price, for some ugly looking item of class D amplification to boot, into the stratospheric regions makes sense to some marketing folk?
Will it work?
Maybe some 'old age barrel matured connoisseurs' will show us?
😘 
Michélle 

New Aavik amp in an unopened box just sold on eBay for -60% retail price. Remember these guys are the ex Raidho people.

And transistors in A or AB costs much more than class D module?Just because it has 20kg heatsinks it justifies higher price than class D amps?

Does whole sound quality comes just from class D modules in the amp, or there are maybe some other components in there?

Come on people, you don't have a clue what you're talking about, and never heard this amp and compared it against other in that price range.

i own the u300, previous version of this amp. no, you do not walk into the store and suddenly write a check for 39k.  you already have a dac, preamp, power amps, phono stage etc as well as countless power cables, interconnect cables, other gizmos including grounding devices, power conditioners etc. lifestyle choices, age, enthusiasm level, changing tastes and environmental concerns encourage you to make simpler choices without hopefully too great a sonic penalty. you trade in your cables which you are tired of swapping anyways and take home a good looking device ans somehow feel that you made a good decision financially as well.

i am surprised that the device measures poorly because it has a modern sound with good sound stage and impressive dynamics. for fellow owners, i use this amp in the low gain mode (which could be helping noise according to stereophile) and use balanced power (which could be helping grounding issues)