I'm in no good lying. It's basically known by everyone in Chinese HiFi field.
And well shit. You asked for you got it. I'm not worried about any trouble this will cause. As this will give even more detail than what's known by "everyone".
Gustard simply did not apply for certification for A22 A18 and X16. And recently MQA restricted certification in China. There was only British people dealing with us originally. Now they got Chinese representatives/people. And this is basically what happened. A18 and X16 are banned for selling for now. Hence until they got certification right, you guys can't get your X16. A18 is basically dead already due to fire in AKM chip factory. We will run out of 4499 too pretty soon.
If you get a better source, correct me if I'm wrong. But I'll leave it as is. Because I'm also very transparent about issues on products I designed. The volume knob, the fuses, ground loop etc.
Ugh this is a mess. Do you know why they thought they could get away with this shady business?