VAC - any comments? Good or bad.

My impression has always been that VAC makes incredibly musical gear and has top-notch quality. Their least impressive models over the years have tended toward marked warmth for what its worth.

The usual complaint about VAC gear is $$$$, but there is more expensive gear out there watt-for-$ and I have always had great respect for VAC - especially their top of the line stuff. I am actually waiting to audition the PHI 70s in my system and see if they have enough power. I've got my fingers crossed b/c I love what they can do in some systems...

BTW- I have nothing to do with making or selling audio gear, so my ears are my main bias!

What are you looking at buying and what is the rest of your system? Everyone will ask, so you might as well get this out of the way up front.

If you can, listen to the VACs in your system and see if they do it for you - they have been truly magical in other setups I've heard!

Good luck,
Jacob

Unbelievable build quality and musical presentation. That sums it up. I have owned various VAC linestages, pre-amps and amplifiers over the years, the latest and current being the 70/70 III amplifier. I can tell you that you absolutely cannot go wrong with ANY piece from VAC.

TAS has had great respect for VAC for a number of years.

Thanks for the comments guys. I have heard VAC amps in the past and have been very impressed with them. I am looking at buying a set of monoblocks that are no longer in production. I was looking more for info on what type of company VAC is... ie, are they easy to deal with, do they support their older stuff, will they offer help to make their equipment better. I have heard glowing comments about companies like Atma-Sphere and Joule, about how their people go out of their way to be supportive of their equipment and was just wondering if VAC is that kind of company. I was hoping to hear a few war stories about people's experiences with the company itself and not so much about their equipment.