Dan D'Agostino Helius dual monoblocks, 1500w @ 8ohms

I wonder, if all the tube guys will bite their tongues with a tube amp that cost $350K usd in 2004. SE tube amp that can't drive much at all (see measurements).
 https://www.stereophile.com/tubepoweramps/704wavac/index.html

I think I'd rather have the arc welder than the feather duster and pocket $100K

Cheers George

to create quarter million buck amp isn't life time, to find idiot(s) to purchase is skill.

The arc welding reference is getting pretty old and stale...

What's really interesting is that a friend of ours is good friends with Dan's daughter. She has no clue about fine audio and when she mentioned the name I asked about his background. She said it was "something like that". I wonder if I could arrange a private listening session? (in my dreams)

Dan D'Agostino is a great amp designer no doubt, however, some of his later work at Krell is total crap, The Showcase HT processor comes to mind along with the KAV series with insufficient cooling.  The  KAV-250a, KAV-250a/3, KAV-500i and KAV-1500 were recently recalled for this problem.