Great Weekend SHOW OFF Time Number 5

Geplaatst op 18/01/2014 door hermanvandendungen

Just VERY, VERY, VERY PROUD!!!

If an article starts like this. With such a picture and such a sub title “PrimaLuna raises the bar again”. What else do you need to make a day like this a happy day? Thanks Jeff Dorgay, Thanks ToneAudio!

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Just VERY, VERY, VERY PROUD!!!

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An Integrated BRIK In The Wall …

Geplaatst op 17/01/2014 door hermanvandendungen

Yesterday I wrote about Dan D’Agostino’s new integrated amplifier. A big, costly machine. Certainly a machine that’s going to please some pleople who can afford it.

I also wrote about our own PrimaLuna Integrated Amplifiers. These are all tube based and cost virtually nothing if compared with the machine from Dan the Man. We have 4 different models now: ProLogue Classic Integrated Amplifier, ProLogue Premium Integrated Amplifier, DiaLogue Premium Integrated Amplifier and the DiaLogue Premium HP Integrated Amplifier. All coming with our Adaptive Auto Bias circuit, switch for EL34-KT88/120 choice and several other unique PrimaLuna features.

But next to that we have something that can give an awfull lot of pleasure to a lot of those. We carry the BRIK miniature models. In that range we find also an Integrated Amplifier. This thing works fine and is affordable, Very affordable. For € 165.- exclusive power supply or € 200.- with the simplest powersupply included, you are in the better sound business. Improve your laptop, desk computer, XBox etc sound by connecting a good pair of speakers and good amplification.

Our youngest audio-using family-member Nick van Eggelen is very happy with this BRIK amplifier and the matching Dac. Computer, X-Box, TV it all sounds wonderful. And maybe one day he will moving up step-by-step in quality. Like his father and his grandfather did. :-). On his way to own a Dan D’Agostino Momentum Integrated Amplifier?

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Dan D’Agostino Integrates – Again!

Geplaatst op 16/01/2014 door hermanvandendungen

The integrated Amplifier has always been -at least for me- one of the most common audio pieces you could think of. The “real” thing was the next level up: a seperate pre- and power amplifier.

Then … Dan D’Agostino, while at Krell, introduces the KAV-300i. A small integrated amplifier. Huh … The big Krell known from the big heavy amps designed an integrated amplifier? Yes, they did and it became one of their most popular products ever. For them and for us. We decided to try and see what the effect would be of introducing this product in our market at the US retail price (excl taxes) and gave the product a lot of attention. And it worked. We ordered this model not in quantities of 5 or 1o units, we ordered by 100 pieces. A first for us, a first for Krell. Once we did this, the other distributors in Europe kind of woke up and the model became popular all over. It became a classic.

It did not only became a classic, it also made the integrated amplifier recognized as a real high-end product. Some even started to argue about the advantages of having the music signal treated without the wired distance between the preamplifier and the poweramplifier. Soon most high end companies were offering a high end integrated amplifier. We at Durob Audio are also responsable for the design, production and distribution of PrimaLuna and Mystère products. We actually always -till now- stárt with an integrated amplifier and from there we “travel” to the seperates. During this CES 2014 we did that again and brought the PrimaLuna DiaLogue Premium HP Integrated Amplifier on stage. During 2014 you will hear more about it. Keep an eye on us.

picture "stolen" from absolute sounds uk. thank you

pic “stolen” from absolute sounds uk. thank you

And Dan, during CES 2014, in his new company Dan D’Agostino Master Audio Systems, did it again. He introduced his new … D’Agostino Integrated Amplifier. I have not actually seen the unit. I have seen a picture here and there and it is, as you can expect from Dan, a very impressive machine.

During 2014 you will hear more about it. Keep an eye on us, keep an eye on Dan’s company website. For now you can get the maximum available information from the company’s pre CES 2014 press release which you can download here.

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Live And Love Your Life, Enjoy Your Music

Geplaatst op 15/01/2014 door hermanvandendungen

Yesterday I was once again discussing within our company the need of advertising or non-advertising of our products, services, special offers, second-hands etc. More on that maybe later. Following that discussion I was Googling a bit and landed on an old page of one of our websites and in fact one of the first hifi-related websites in BeNeLux. It made me smile. It made me sad. It made me think. Just showing how fast things seem to change. Below you find a range of pictures related to the promotion of our Hifi Notes website. I smiled because of the good memories. I was sad because of the people not being with us anymore. I was thinking Live And Love Your Life as long as you can. On the funny side of things: my Volvo is still here.

I don’t dare to say from when exactly these pictures from this Guerilla Marketing Project are, and I don’t have the time to find out. But I hope these give some of our readers a smile , and I know it will give some of our readers a tear. But let the lesson be -and I know many will say: Look at Yourself- we have to enjoy as much as we can. Music is an excellent tool for that!