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Saturdday
October 07 2006 - 13.30
- Next week DÉ HifiWinkel in Beek-Ubbergen will be closed because of Rob's autumn vacation.
Tuesday
June 20 2006 - 16.30
Summertime comes near,
which means that we start giving you information about the periods the different
shops are closed:
DÉ HifiStudio Weerdinge:
Closed on Saturday July 29 plus the 3 following weeks (week 31, 32 and 33).
DÉ HifiWinkel Beek-Ubbergen:
Closed on June 20 till July 1. Open again on July 4.
DÉ HifiWinkel
Closed on July 4 till July 15. Open again on July 18.
All our shops will be closed on
DÉ HifiWinkel in Beek-Ubbergen will be closed from 18 - 22 april
because of Rob's vacation.
Tuesday
February 28 DÉ HifiWinkel in Eindhoven
will be closed because of local Carnaval festivities (and Michiel’s birthday
off).
Friday February 10 DÉ HifiStudio in Weerdinge is closed due to family-circumstances.
Friday February 3 and Saturday February 4, DÉ
HifiWinkel
Saturday
24 december DÉ HifiWinkel
Saturday 31 december DÉ HifiWinkel Eindhoven and Beek-Ubbergen will be
closed all day EXCEPT DÉ HifiStudio in Weerdinge and The HifiShop in
Wednesday
December 7, The HifiShop in Tilburg will be closed all day.
Saturday
October 22, DÉ HifiWinkel Eindhoven will be closed all day.
The
first week of October (October 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8) DÉ HifiWinkel Beek-Ubbergen
will be closed due to holiday of Rob Wilms.
Saturday
August 20 13 2005 - 18.55
Due to family-circumstances DÉ HifiStudio Weerdinge is closed on
DÉ HifiWinkel Eindhoven is closed during week 29 + 30 (July 18 - July
31)
DÉ HifiStudio Weerdinge is closed on July 23 + during week 30 + 31 + 32 (July
25 - August 15)
The HifiShop Tilburg is closed during week 29 + 30 (July 18 - July 31)
DÉ HifiWinkel Beek-Ubbergen is closed on July 22 (Vierdaagse in
Beek-Ubbbergen)
Summer
is -definitely- here, so we start unloading some of our demo and secondhand
stuff. We are offering very high-quality gear for very best prices to make
space for new stuff to come.Very much for very little. Check it out here: TransFair Audio Classifieds. More specials will be added every
day!
Friday May
27 2005 - 20.00
Summer
is -almost- here, so we start to publish the planning for summer-holidays:
DÉ HifiWinkel Eindhoven is closed during week 29 + 30 (July 18 - July 31)
DÉ HifiStudio Weerdinge is closed during week 30 + 31 + 32 (July 25 - August
15)
The HifiShop Tilburg is closed during week 29 + 30 (July 18 - July 31)
DÉ HifiWinkel Beek-Ubbergen is closed during week 23 + 24 (June 6 - June 20); Rob
is back!!!
Wednesday
May 11 2005 - 12.00
Tomorrow,
Thursday May 12, DÉ HifiWinkel in
Because
of "Hemelvaart" and "Liberation-Day" from World War II, all
shops will be closed on Thursday May 5. DÉ HifiStudio Weerdinge will also be
closed on Friday May 6 and Saturday May 7.
Saturday
april 30, we all join the National Queen's Birthday Party, so our shops will be
closed.
DÉ HifiWinkel
DÉ HifiStudio Weerdinge will be closed on Friday May 6 and Saturday May 7.
Attention!
Marcel is back. He lost 2.5 kgs, but is full of energy to serve you again.
Attention!
DÉ HifiWinkel
Attention! Sometimes the flu is stonger then we are. So .... because of
that DÉ HifiWinkel in
Thursday
March 31 2005 - 19.00
Almost
one month ago for another addition to the news section! And that while there is
so MUCH news! Our PrimaLuna brand must have been the last 12 months the most
reviewed audio-item in the world. And it showed up in Stereophile's Class B
....!!! And good old Njoe Tjoeb cd-player is still singing her songs:
Stereophile Class C!! PrimaLuna mentioned in TAS: best new company, best new
product etc etc.
And today we received first productionsample of the ProLogue Three (preamp),
ProLogue Four (EL-34 based stereo poweramp) and ProLogue Five (KT-88 based
stereo poweramp). I am listening to a set right now. Beautiful, but I say no
more as tomorrow Marcel Croese will have to confirm that production is
flawless!
And what's more ..... Suimmer is on the way and on the way are too the summer
holidays, so we start to give you the who is when NOT available:
DÉ HifiWinkel Eindhoven: closed on Friday april 22 and Saturday april 23!
DÉ HifiWinkel
Friday
March 04 2005 - 14.00
Rob Wilms of
DÉ HifiWinkel in Beek-Ubbergen will be off on March 8, 9, 10, 11 and
12.
Koos Boshoven of The HifiShop in Tilburg will be off on March
15.
Ferry Kremers of DÉ HifiStudio in Weerdinge (DR) will be off on
March 25 and March 26.
Please make a note of this.
DÉ HifiWinkel in Beek-Ubbergen will be closed on Friday-evening february
25!! So no "koop-avond" that day!
And ... in the mail we recieved today the
January-February 2005 issue of new Dutch magazine Vi-fi. PrimaLuna
ProLogue One on the frontcover and reviewed inside. And the winner is ...
The conclusion of the review, with Van Medevoort vM MA240, Creek A50i, Audio
Aero Prima Integrated amps being the "competition", where all
"factors" like soundquality, looks, practical useability, value
for money are included: Yes, and then that value for money
... Is it the Creek, that miraclebox with rocksteady imaging, or the Van
Medevoort, or maybe the Audio Aero ...? No, the sexy looks, the extraordinary
finish, but above all the undeniable musicality of the PrimaLuna makes this
Dutch-Chinese co-product the "secret tip" of this review.
Rob Wilms of
DÉ HifiWinkel in Beek-Ubbergen will be off on March 8, 9, 10, 11 and
12.
Ferry Kremers of DÉ HifiStudio in Weerdinge (DR) will be off on
March 25 and March 26.
Please make a note of this.
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Vi-fi, het betrekkelijk nieuwe blad van Vaderlandsche bodem zal in de komende uitgave nummer 3, een aantal geďntegreerde versterkers aan de tand voelen. Daaronder onze "eersteling" uit de PrimaLuna reeks, de ProLogue One. Of de Nederlandse visie overeenkomt met die van de audio journalisten uit het buitenland, mogen we hopen. Gezien de hoge scores die de PrimaLuna ProLogue One wereldwijd het afgelopen jaar behaald heeft, zien we het verhaal met vertrouwen tegemoet. Het tijdschrift zou 25 februari in de kiosk moeten liggen. |
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Sunday February 13 2005 - 08.00
Koos
of The HifiShop in Tilburg has 2 days off on next wednesday and
thursday, so -I guess- The HifiShop Tilburg will be closed on february 16
and 17.
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PrimaLuna strikes again! This time Ken
Kessler fills 2 pages in the March issue of HiFi News on the
PrimaLuna ProLogue Two. This amplifier takes the place of our ProLogue
One in Ken's Entry Level High End System. The King is dead! Long
live The King? Don't think so. Ken is very clear about the high-end qualities
of both these affordable tube-amplifiers. And ... circumstances and personal
taste will decide what's your choice for either the One or Two. What about
the ProLogue Three, Four and Five which are on their way to reach the
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Tuesday February 01 2005 - 22.00
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Very good -best- news for all of us! February
issue of Stereophile has our two favorite integrated amplifiers on the
frontcover! Krell's KAV400xi solidstate integrated solidstate
stereo-amplifier and PrimaLuna's ProLogue One integrated tube
stereo-amplifier! The february issue of Stereophile is out NOW and for
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Next week, week 6 is national Carnaval in the South of Holland. This means that
our customers have to realise that:
DÉ HifiWinkel in
Tuesday January 05 2005 - 012.00
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It is January and in HiFi that is AWARD
time of the year! As you have seen below we have been awarded in UK Hifi +
for the PrimaLuna ProLogue Two for being Hifi + Product of the Year.
We just received a nice scan from David Shaw - Icon Audio UK - showing our AH!
Njoe Tjoeb 4000 as being Editor's Choice of Hifi News! Not bad for
a product we introduced -I believe- somewhere during the year 2000!!! "Hardly a mainstream product, but the
enjoyment it can give argues for its conclusion. One of a range of heavily modified
Marantz CD players with a valve output stage, available in |
Happy New Year for all and hopefully a year full
of health and joy for all people all over the world. Hopefully a lot of people
are going to find the time and energy to care for the people who survived the
Tsunami disaster! I am proud to say that my people will come up soon (after I
am back from Vegas) with detailed plans for 12 months of special attention for
those who most probably will never be able to think or dream of the stuff we
sell. Once I am back, I will further explain.
PrimaLuna is doing very well. Locally and wordwide. See the reviews
below and learn about the fact that PrimaLuna ProLogue Two has been awarded
Product of the Year 2004 by Hifi + in
Several people are asking about out PrimaLuna website. Well, as you
might know, that site is till "under development". But we are going
to let you have a look at it in the current status. Just click on the
small-size webpage and there you go. If you have comments, do not hesitate to
contact us.
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The HifiShop in
Also
we changed a part of the november 17 text and links (see below).
Wednesday November 17 2004 - 15.30
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Best news of the day is that since today 15.30 Marcel
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Next issue
of cabletalk is planned for this weekend.
Other good news comes from
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Two important issues. First of all a new Chapter added in cabletalk!!!
Next
to that we have received one of the nicest reviews ever from one of our customers.
We feel that if all reviews in hifi-magazines where of this level, the interest
for audio and music would be certainly much higher. Very enthousiastic and a
very pleasant style of writing goes this time for the PrimaLuna ProLogue TWO.
I hope that Vic Diederen who translates for us from Dutch into English can
capture the style and enthousiasme of Martijn Uijen and I hope that Martijn
Uijen finds the time and opportunity to write more for us. This is fun to
read and fun to publish! Click here to read his ProLogue Two
review. Thank
you for your time and efforts Martijn!
I invite all of you to follow the link of this new paragraph as we are
going to write -about- "cable-history": cabletalk!!!
Thurday
I
am back and still there! Just like George B. and unlike T. van Gogh and famous
Dutch cyclist and humorist Gerry Kneteman -de Kneet-. Also still there is Boy Ballings,
one of our first PrimaLuna ProLogue One owners. Now he reports -in Dutch- on
the Adaptive AutoBias Board upgrade. We will translate soon in English. Click here to read.
One
month no changes on this page does not mean that nothing happened ... But as
always, you have to find the time to prepare a text before publishing. That
time is not always available or when it is available it is used for other
things. Now I found a moment to prepare a home-review from a client from our
We
enter the last period of holidays for the people of our shop. Please note the
following:
DÉ HifiWinkel Eindhoven will be closed during the week of september 13 till
september 20. We will be available again on september 21.
DÉ HifiWinkel Beek-Ubbergen will be closed during the week of october 5 till
october 12. We will be available again on october 13.
And ..... tomorrow sptember 11, Rob Wilms hopes to reach the memorable age of 50
YEARS. Rob will be working as normal, but at the end of the day he will
close a little earlier. So if you want to congratulate this new ABRAHAM, come
early!
Due
to holiday- and family-circumstances DÉ HifiWinkel in
For
the people who like POWERamps there is KRELL. Read an
It's
impossible to read all the news, all the reviews related to the hifi-products
you (and we) are interested in. With a collegue-distributor we have agreed upon
using each other files. That's why we can link you to more (pdf) files than in
case we had to do it all "by ourselves". I will start off with a
review on the Krell KAV-400xi. If you have Adobe Acrobat Reader installed,
which most computer-users have, you can read here a review on the Krell KAV-400xi
as published in Hifi News earlier this year. Click
here.
Time
flies. Four weeks of holidays feels like one week! Before the holidays start I
always think I can re-do the full website and publish more news and stories
than I can think of. Well, that is every year NOT true. But ... during this
period it is always a little more than during the rest of the year. And ... I
took an extra week, so chances are that in the last week, tons of stuff is going
to be published ... Todat I publish some experiences with tweaking from
Ferry Kremers (also on holiday while I write this) on the PrimaLuna ProLogue
One. In Dutch. Click here! The recent Shunmook articles
have been published also in the catagory reviews of accessories!
I
said it before: I am pretty straight forward, no-nonsense en Voodoo-Voodoo hifi
is not my piece of cake. Sometimes in (hifi-) life however even I have to admit
that things work without immediate explanation. I had that with the AudioPrism
cd-stift, The Hallograph "totems" and further back in life, during a
ShunMook demo in the
Koos
Boshoven is already back for one week now and busy, busy, busy. Nothing seems
to be able to stop him. And ... he even had the time to write down the results
with his Adaptive AutoBias Board in the PrimaLuna ProLogue One. It's
quite a nice story and ... in English. Please read here.
Friday August 06 2004 - 18.30
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It's my
pleasure to introduce and display the new PrimaLuna logo! It's the
result of the cooperation with our graphic man Koeno van der Schuur. Many
hours of work and discussion were necessary to come up with such a
"simple" design. PrimaLuna is Italian for "First
Moon". Knowing this, the logo looks -hopefully- quite logic and we
hope it will be soon recognized as a sign of high quality, reliability and
value! |
Marcel
van Overbeek, normally busy in DÉ HifiWinkel in
ATTENTION
please! Due to summer vacation we ask your attention for the following:
DÉ
HifiWinkel Eindhoven will be closed July 19-26 and re-open on July 27.
The HifiShop Tilburg will start closing on July 16 (due to the noise of the
famous "Kermis") and will re-open on August 3.
DÉ HifiStudio Weerdinge will be closed July 24-August 16 and re-open on August
17.
Congratulions
Petra. Happy birthday!
Tomorrow, friday July 2, The HifiShop will be closed.
Tomorrow
DÉ HifiStudio in Weerdinge will be closed for the (satur)day. Ferry will be
back on tuesday next week. The review of Italian journalist Claudio Checchi
from AUDIOreview is available in Spanish now. If you speak
Spanish, click here and read.
And
we see Ken Kessler's PrimaLuna story in Dutch this time. Click here.
We
just published here Ken Kessler's review on our PrimaLuna ProLogue
One in Hifi News, but that was not the first magazine-review
published. The first magazine-review on the PrimaLuna was by Claudio Checchi
from AUDIOreview. That was in Italian language and although we also want
to publish the review in Italian language on this site, we first wanted to have
an English translation as that can be read by most of our visitors. Here it is! Enjoy reading. If you want to see if
the pdf file works, click here.
Saturday June 12
2004 - 17.00
"Sprechen
Sie Deutsch?" Do
you speak German? In StereoPlay magazine of this month you can find an article
about TRANSPARENT interconnect cables. The theory about their
filternetworks and the advantages in sound are very well described. Another
advantage is that finally
Attention for
those of you who believe nobody and nothing! Rob Wilms has just finished his
review on the pretty amazing ShunMook material. Rob is quite familiar
with all kind of "I-don't-believe-this-is-possible"-accesories
and his conclusions can be considered as highly-reliable. So NoBullShit-stories
from him, but just bloody serious experiences written down by this bloody
serious -audiophile- man! Click and read!
Not
only Ken Kessler has been enjoying our PrimaLuna ProLogue One integrated
amplifier, also Bram Gerbrandij, customer from DÉ Hifiiwinkel in Beek-Ubbergen,
enjoyed it so much that he took the time to share his experiences with
Hifi-Notes readers worldwide. For the moment only the for the worldwide Dutch
readers, but hopefully soon his story will be available in other languages. Click here to read.
Olé, Olé,
Olé, Olé, we have a champion, we have a champion
etc. I guess nobody thinks of the Dutch national footballteam which once was
very famous and now most probably is suffering more than ever. I am talking
about our PrimaLuna ProLogue One! If everything was going as it should
go, you could read about it in Hifi News. Unfortunately it is (still) not
normal. Almost every month we spread 250 copies of Hifi News and this month it
seems again one of these months that the magazines do NOT show up! Very
unfortunate, but what can we do? For this moment : two things. Link you
to the scanned text in English by Ken Kessler and link you to the Spanish
translation by Manolito. So here we go: click here
for a copy of the Hifi News test or the Spanish translation. Next week we do
hope to have the reviews downbloadable in pdf-form and maybe even in more
languages!
If
you want to know what Koos Boshoven has been doing and enjoying the last 2
weeks you have to read Dutch. He was the lucky man to be partner with the new
Sonus Faber Stradivari loudspeakers. He was only allowed to live with these
speakers if he was going to write down his experiences during these weeks. And
he did. It's a good piece of proza he wrote and the inspiration-level must have
been very high. Koos is not easy! So, if you read Dutch, click here.
If you don't read Dutch, visit him in The Hifishop in Tilburg and ask him for a demo. And if you
want to have some looks on the pics: click here.
Rob
Wilms keeps asking me to publish the dates his shop (DÉ HIFIWINKEL BEEK) is
closed for holidays. He will be away from June 22 till July 5. Please make a
note of that if you intend to visit him during this period!
And
the NEWS is ..... No, that's a wrong start! And the HIFI NEWS is that
our PrimaLuna ProLogue One integrated tube-amplifier is now Ken
Kessler's "affordable reference amplifier"! Are we proud? More
than proud! Thank you! You want more? How about this? "With
apologies to various British and Italian geniuses, this amplifier has -to my
ears- no equals at its retail price". And somewhere in between: "hot-rodded
Marantz products called AH! Njoe Tjoeb (speaking of daft names ...) that
offered ridiculous value for money, truly superb performance for negligible
outlay". And so on .... Go out and get your copy of HIFI NEWS.
That might be difficult in The Netherlands as the magazines for our
country seem to have disappeared somewhere between
What's
the first thing you notice while driving to your work? Nice weather! Did not
expect that. I had already a small list of Conrad-Johnson components to add to
the Stereophile / Krell-links-list I published yesterday. So, despite the nice
weather, I add some review-links for you.
AH! Njoe Tjoeb 4000 tube output cd-player (we have
sufficient new players in stock: contact us!)
Other AH!
demo / trade-in units we have available for sale will be added here:
Conrad-Johnson PV10 stereo preamplifier (we have PV10-A and PV10-B demo-units available for
sale; contact us!)
Conrad-Johnson Premier 12 mono power amplifiers (we have a brand-new
set available for sale; contact us!)
Conrad-Johnson Premier 11 stereo power amplifier (we have a
demo-unit available for sale; contact us!)
Conrad-Johnson CAV50 integrated amplifier (we have a
demo-unit available for sale; contact us!)
Conrad-Johnson Premier 17LS stereo line preamplifier
Conrad-Johnson
Premier 15
phono preamplifier
Conrad-Johnson MV60 integrated amplifier
Conrad-Johnson Premier 16LS stereo preamplifier
Conrad-Johnson Premier 18LS stereo line preamplifier
Other
Conrad-Johnson demo / trade-in units we have available for sale will be
added here: PV12 (including phonostage) (contact us!)
Krell KBL stereo preamplifier
Krell 50S stereo poweramplifier (trade-in
unit available for sale: contact us!)
Krell KRC-HR stereo preamplifier (trade-in unit
available for sale: contact us!)
Krell 300i stereo integrated amplifier
(trade-in unit available for sale: contact us!)
Krell 300cd integrated cd-player (trade-in unit
available for sale: contact us!)
Krell FPB600 stereo poweramplifier