Herman van den Dungen’s connections with Japan Part 11

Geplaatst op 27/08/2014 door beheerder

One day we introduced two new projects. PrimaLuna and Mystère. Both tube based designs. USA was again very successful with these brands and it wasn’t more than logic that Hajime showed us his interest to distribute both PrimaLuna and Mystère as well. Again Hajime was very successful with these brands and Japan was for PrimaLuna and Mystère our best market after USA. Then … all of a sudden a lot of bad luck came on our way. We got the bad news Hajime had a cancer. And although he was very positive, he lost the fight with this strong enemy. Japan was suffering a lot from the bad economy and worldwide crisis. Not to forget the terrible disaster with the tsunami. After that it became a very silent period for us in Japan. We want to change that. That’s why we published about our past contacts in Japan. We hope you liked it and if you have any suggestions for me, let me know. To be continued.

 

 

 

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Kiseki Purpleheart N.O.S. : A.k.a. The Music!

Geplaatst op 26/08/2014 door beheerder

001-Kiseki PurpleHeart N O SLast month we received a great review about our Kiseki PurpleHeart N.O.S. The review has written by Domenico Pizzamiglio of Audio Activity Italy. Domenico, thank you very much!  Please visit the website and the review of Audio activity here

The Kiseki Purpleheart N.O.S. has been limited made and distrubed.

We hope you enjoy reading this review!

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Herman van den Dungen’s connections with Japan Part 10

Geplaatst op 21/08/2014 door beheerder

光悦と後奇跡、日本はしばらく見えなくなった。オランダで我々 は違うことをやって続けたし、私たちの新しいプロジェクトは、ああ ！Tjoeb cd プレーヤー。このチューブ cd プレーヤー非常に少量から成長している米国で特別、非常に人気となった。我々 は日本からの紳士から連絡された 1 日： DotLabo から肇土井氏。私達が学んだ彼は AH を買っていた ！米国からの Tjoeb cd プレーヤーそして我々 は彼を私たちから直接購入を示唆します。肇、AH と非常に速く非常に巧妙になった ！Tjoeb cd プレーヤーとすぐに彼は米国後市場数 2 をだった。肇は非常に気持が良い男だったし、我々 は彼と素敵な信頼性の高い、安定したビジネスをしていた。継続するのには。

After Koetsue and Kiseki, Japan was out of sight for a while. In The Netherlands we continued to do different things and one of our new projects was the AH! Tjoeb cd player. Growing from very small quantities, this tube cd player became very popular, specially in USA. One day we were contacted by a gentleman from Japan: Mr. Hajime Doi from DotLabo. We learnt he was buying AH! Tjoeb cd players from USA and we suggested him to buy from us direct. Hajime became very fast very successful with the AH! Tjoeb cd players and soon he was market number 2 after USA. Hajime was a very pleasant man and we had a nice, reliable and stable business with him. To be continued.

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A gift from the past! Koetsu cartridges signed by Yoshiaki Sugano

Geplaatst op 20/08/2014 door beheerder

After about 40 years in the audio business I have collected -without really collecting- a lot of audio and audio related material. In fact after all these years a part of our warehouse is like a small audiomuseum. Lot of things, each with their own story. Today some of these hidden treasures we want to share with you here on the blog. 30 years ago we introduced Koetsu cartridges to the European market. I went to visit Yoshiaki Sugano, the man who built the cartridges, several times. The past few weeks I shared my experiences with you through this blog. During one of these visits I received two cartridges as a gift from Mr. Sugano. One for mono and one for 78 rpm discs I think these are UNIQUE Koetsu cartridges. Signed by him and with some personal notes. Now I want to give someone the opportunity to obtain these cartridges. These have never been used and are in excellent condition. I also have 2 other Koetsu Onyx cartridges. Don’t know the condition of these, don’t know the story (if any) behind these. If someone is interested, please make me an offer before we offer them through general public websites like Ebay.

It concerns the following models:

-Koetsu Wood for mono 78 rpm records

-Koetsu Onyx for mono records, personally signed by Y. Sugano

-Koetsu Onyx for stereo records (2 pieces)

 

If you are interested in these cartridges, please contact us!

With kind regards,

Herman van den Dungen

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