No, not an usual remote, as you can guess. It is a block of hardwood with two tiny gold buttons. No markings, nothing else. It is just a volume control, no possibility to select inputs. The quality of the finish is something HARD to find even in competitors costing 2 or 3 times as much.
Hybrid amplifiers are every audiophile's secret dream.
Following an old HiFi tale they should have both the pluses of the solid state gear and the pluses of tubes. Well, it may be and it mainly depends on the ability of the designer. He should know how to use tubes and how to use transistors. And, last but not least, he should be able to mix the two together, seamlessly. Not an easy task.