has anyone heard of this rod?

Nothing about it on their site. This is intriguing. Where'd you hear about it?

A little late to the party here, but yeah I've heard of it. I have one. A dam fine flipping stick for the price.

On the rod itself it is called: "flip trigger rod."

My main flipping stick is the old team Daiwa Denny Brauer signature series flipping rod he designed. This Quantum rod is a cheaper copy almost identical to the Team Daiwa rod in every detail, so I protect the old Denny Brauer signature rod by not using it and put all my flipping and pitching fishing over on this Quantum rod that takes all the abuse. I am not crazy about the handle, but not going to worry about it until it fails if it ever does.

But the graphite rod blank this quantum is made from has really nice characteristics for a flipping stick. Lots of backbone and super fast. It does not mess around for pulling bass out of cover.