AH! News
- Just a short note that we have found again a
limited quantity of NOS Siemens 288CC tubes ánd a batch of Tesla E88CC Gold
Pin / Red Point tubes.
The SuperTubeClock is still growing strong(er). Hi-Fi World measured lowest jitter specs ever on the version of our SuperTubeClock as installed in our PrimaLuna PL8 cd-player. The SuperTubeClock can be easily installed in our Njoe Tjoeb 4000 cd-player and if you have a Reference we can even install 3 clocks .... In other cd-players, sacd-players, dvd-players we can also install our SuperTubeClocks, but we might need more time to find out how and where we can install.
- Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all.
Hopefully 2008 will only bring good things.
We have just finished the design of SuperTubeClock Version 3.0 and look forward to get these available early 2008. In a relatively short time we have almost sold our first batch of 1,000 pieces which we consider as being quite good, due to the fact it is a kind of "special" product.
I don't want to repeat myself, certainly as
this section is the "NEWS"-section, but the results of our
SuperTubeClock are so amazingly well-received by ALL customers who tried it in
a variety of cd-player- brands and models, that simply HAVE to -kind of- repeat
myself. If -experienced- customers tell us that the cd-player seems to be /
sounds to be re-invented, what more can you say? Next to a better cd-player it
brings also back the "old-fashioned" (??) feeling of fun you have as
a supplier AND as a customer if you notice the great improvement a
simple-looking (remember we worked 3 years on this ...) circuit can do to your
sound. Customers that get their clock installed during the day on friday, on
friday-evening already email us how "rocking good" the new cd-player
sounds and on saturday-morning email again to tell they have been rocking again
for a few hours .....
Saturday October 07 2006 - 14.30
You might be amazed it took so long before we
got new NEWS!! Same here ... It took us since 2003 to get a dedicated Clock
we always wanted to have for our AH! Njoe
Tjoeb 4000. We have it now. And it is not only a dedicated Clock for our AH! Njoe Tjoeb 4000, it is a Clock for
every player out there. It's an universal Clock and ... it comes with a
heart of "tube" which is unique in the world. It’s the SuperTubeClock!!! We have AH! Njoe Tjoeb players, Copland players,
EC players, Marantz players, Krell players as beta-testers. All having a better
digital life now ....
Carnaval is
on it's way in the south of The Netherlands! This means that:
DÉ HIFIWINKEL in
Next to that it seems that Rob Wilms of DÉ HIFIWINKEL in Beek-Ubbergen
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Back
from the U.$$.A.!! Despite low $, this country is still f*****g expensive! How
about a simple espresso coffee for $ 3.50 excluding 8% tax, excluding 20% tip. In
real money that is > Hfl 8,-. Sorry, I still calculate now and than in Dutch
Guilders to better realise the (non)"value"! Anyway,
It was the show with a number of positive people as the sales during the last
months of 2003 were good for them. Others were not so positive, or better, were
negative or even disappeared from the market .... I don't have to mention
brands, but one of the Leaders of the Gang is at least for 12 months out of the
market. Why? Simply because it was not profitable and the big, big
parent-company wants to see PROFITS!! As simple as that. The other Leader of
the Gang, Krell, was feeling good at the show, as they took on quite a
bit of new US dealers ... Wadia also seems to be back with a range of
new products. The man Mark Levinson, now from RedRose, was suffering again ... I
think the man is a genius, but knowing him personally very well and having seen
what he did the last 30 years, I think the best would be to continue to write
about female orgasmes ... What I hear is that people seem to get tired to be
confronted with his coming-up and going-down adventures (no, this is not
referring to his latest book ...). Read what Enjoy-the-Music, a leading audiophile
website in U.S.A. wrote: "What happens when you lose a company with
your name, another company you start up goes under shortly after you leave
(thereby making any warranty work null and void), and then you dare to start
yet another company that stirred some controversy as to the true origins of the
electronics, then have an interesting divorce, then followed by... Well, read it
for yourself folks."
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Friday January 2 2004 - 21.00
AH!appy
New Year to all of you! First new review, or better: translation, is from Ferry
Kremers. Again, our PrimaLuna ProLogue One is the subject of his
story. Click here and Enjoy the Music from his words.
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I
only repeat the words of one of our AH! Njoe Tjoeb 4000 customers
who wrote in the hifi-notes.com guestbook: http://www.enjoythemusic.com/magazine/equipment/0104/bestof2003.htm Again praise for the Tjoep-cdp. Does
this never stop??? ;-) Jules. Well, we hope not ... Click to see what Jules saw enjoythemusic.com (and
thanks for reporting!!).
No
long stories today from my side. Just a mentioning of the arrival of the Dutch
version of Stefan Krawczyk's PrimaLuna ProLogue One review. Click here to read his review.
Almost
Christmas and still tons of work to do before we can sit/lay down and rest. I
wish all the people all over the world what they wish us and hope all of you
have a good time and enter the New Year in Good Health! Merry Christmas and
a Happy New Year!
Vic Diederen just
translated Rob Wilms' review of the PrimaLuna
ProLogue One into English and he is on his way of delivering more translations. Keep an eye on
this page to see reviews in different languages. Another PrimaLuna ProLogue One
review (in Dutch language) is here from HifiShop customer Rob Leijsen. What else? Well, we amazed ourselves with
very simple things ... Since long I could never understand why high-quality cables
were "highly recommended" while for example inside the speaker just
very "simple" wiring was found. I remember one speaker-manufacturer
(Wilson Audio) being very "proud" to use better-than-average cable:
Monster. I always wondered what the effect would be if inside and
outside the same high-quality cable was used. We listened to our first
prototype AH! TjoeLipS loudspeakers with "standard"
internal wiring. The speaker performed very well, without any question and
visitors in our shop were attracted by the sound and asked "What's
that"? But what happened after we replaced the internal wiring with our AH!
LS Direkt KB 8 loudspeakercable is simply unbelievable! We have a NO-SPEAKER-IS-THERE-SOUNDSTAGE!!!
Lots of air, transparency, ease. True-size imaging and no speakers!!! We
are still fine-tuning as we want to get the maximum out of this design. But it
reminds me of the time that Dan D'Agostino took me by the arm during a CES-Show
in
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Just
back from
How time flies! I noticed that Stereophile magazine, published the AH! Njoe
Tjoeb 4000 review of last month, in their archives. The advantage of that is
that we can link you to the Stereophile
review of the AH! Njoe Tjoeb 4000 from here! Yes, we are proud on the fact that
Stereophile has spent so much time on the AH! Njoe Tjoeb
4000.
Marcel
van Overbeek spent his weekend with the AH! Black TjoeLipS
(Marcel talks about 2LipS) and the new Copland CSA-29 integrated amplifier. The
Copland CSA-29 is already available, while the AH! Black TjoeLipS
speakers are on the way for delivery. We urgently wait for the next prototypes.
The design of the stands for the AH! Black TjoeLipS speakers is
done and first prototypes are being made right now. I was updated today on the AH!
phonoboard and I can tell you, 2004 is gonna be a beautiful year. Marcel Croese
is spoiling me by giving me all I want. Be patient. Click
here for Marcel van Overbeek's review of the Copland CSA-29.
ATTENTION!!
Marcel
van Overbeek safely returned from London Heathrow Hifi Show. Although this show
did not get a lot of realtime airplay from Dutch and US websites (as far as I
could find out), it seems it was very well visited. Icon Audio's room was
simply too small as almost all the time, it was overloaded with visitors. Not
only one-time visitors but also returning visitors bringing other visitors in
to let them see and hear the Icon Audio and AH! products. Marcel
brought and demonstrated from AH! the Tjoeb 66 amplifier,
the new MM/MC phono-stage (without tubes!!) and the new LSDouble
Direkt KB8 loudspeakercables. Overall results were very fine, as was
mentioned by most visitors. Next year we will certainly be back with certainly
more products. Thanks to Marcel and Icon Audio for spreading the AH!
news!
Marcel
van Overbeek safely arrived in
Monday
August 25 19 2003 - 12.00
During
my vacation I have worked less than I wanted, but still came up with some
ideas. One idea was about the fact that people interested in AH!
products but living in a country without a local AH!
representative, are facing high transportationcosts if they order some of our
products. Besides that, WE loose a lot of money if we get the payment
with VISA. So I came up with the following: why not accept payment by
banktransfer instead of VISA and ship at a much lower rate or even free?
So we decided:
Shipping from now on is FREE (
Monday May
19 2003 - 12.00
Some
further technical information was added. Apicture with the TjoUpsampler
connections and how to deal with the TjoUpsampler's LongLegs and what to
do if you want to use 6N1P tubes.
Hallo
And next ... I have to announce that we have to go back in time for the Siemens
E288CC prices. Our stock becomes very, very limited and we cannot find
quantities, whatever sources we have tried. New price of
Some
simple instructions were added to the technical page for upgrading the
headphone-output signal.
Monday December 30 2002 - 17.00
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Attention!
All of us will be back on
Attention!
The end of the year is near! That means holiday-season. Our different shops
have different opening-hours due to different days-off, different tasks etc. Of
course all our locations will be closed on december 24, 25 and January 1. For
other dates we list here what you need to know before you start your trip to
one of our locations:
DÉ HIFIWINKEL EINDHOVEN will be closed from december 22 and will open again on thursday january
2.
DÉ HIFIWINKEL BEEK-UBBERGEN will be closed on december 24. Rest like normal, but on december
31 we close at 16.00.
DÉ HIFISTUDIO WEERDINGE will be open all days like normal (osnd*). On december 31 we close at
16.00.
THE HIFISHOP TILBURG will be open all days like normal (osnd*). On december 31 we close at
16.00.
*osnd
= Old Soldiers Never Die ...
We
wish ALL a Merry Chrismas and a Happy New Year with lots of health and
pleasure.
Attention!
Saturday december 7, THE HIFISHOP TILBURG will be closed the full day!!
It's
my pleasure to announce the first hifi-planet webpage in Italian language!! Click
here to
test your knowledge of this beautiful language. Thank you Mr. Loris Arrigucci!
For
all owners of the AH! TjoUpsampler we have a small hardware
upgrade. Instead of 1 Tjoeb Rib we will include 2 Tjoeb Ribs for a more stable
installation. Also we will include a small cooling-device which might be needed
in some cases where the ac-voltage is more off-standard than expected. Specially
in
Finally
-thanks to the help of Mr. Kevin Deal- we have added the instructions how to
install the optional TjoUpsampler in the AH! Njoe Tjoeb 4000
cd-player. Click here
to check this out in the Technical Section of our site.
The TjoUpsampler is very well received by the first owners and I dare to state
that these new owners report back very enthousiastic about their "new
class" cd-player. What's next, they ask.
Attention!
Saturday october 19, DÉ HIFIWINKEL EINDHOVEN will be closed the full
day!!
Again Koos Boshoven
is the subject of the news. He will be off for vacation in the week of 15
october. So The HifiShop will be closed during that week and will be open agion
on
We
give you here the new realistic trade-in prices of our AH! Tjoeb '98 and '99
prices. Since these are 3 - 4 years old now, we most probably have to exchange
tubes and drive-mechanisme before reselling these.
Max trade-in value of AH! Tjoeb 98 excl. options Euro 150,-
Max trade-in value of AH! Tjoeb 99 excl. options Euro 175,-
Trade-in value installed options:
Coax digital out Euro 10,-
NoiseKiller Euro 10,-
SuperCrystal Euro 25,-
The AH! Tjoeb '98 and '99 players are checked and revised and offered at the
following prices:
AH! Tjoeb 98 excl. options + check-up + pair of new tubes Euro 225,-
AH! Tjoeb 99 excl. options + check-up + pair of new tubes Euro 265,-
Options are sold at trade-in prices.
In case we have to install a new drive-mechanisme we have to charge an extra
Euro 75,-.
We cannot take out options of your old Tjoeb 98 or 99 and build these into your
Njoe Tjoeb 4000.
For
those of you who always want to "Go for Gold", we have good news. From
now on we can offer any Njoe Tjoeb 4000 version also with a gold-color
frontplate. This option is an extra Euro 25,- incl. salestax.
Attention
please! Our shops in
The AH! TjoUpsampler is delayed and is supposed to be available
end of september. Remember that one of these TjoUpsampler can be yours for free.
Just have a look at this site for further details.
Attention!
The TjoUpsampler which we hoped to have available NOW, is delayed until next
month. Sorry, about that! In the meantime TjoUpsamplers are on demo in the
shops in The Netherlands and one unit is on its way to (TJ)UpScale Audio in
If
you are interested to know more about upsampling in general, a simple
explanation about it and a first picture of our AH! TjoUpsampler,
than please click here to go
direct to the TjoUpsampler explanation.
Instructions
and pictures have been added to the technical section for those who want to
change the standard OPA604 opamps for the AH! TjoebTjoens (OPA627
or AD/LC825).
This
is maybe not the place to publish reviews, but as the following can be
considered as a "mini-review" we still publish it here. Later on I
can be reminded to publish it also in the actual review-section:
Marcel van Overbeek has listened to the 2 Opamp options (TjoebTjoens) we offer
for the AH! Njoe Tjoeb 4000 cd-player and came up with following:
"Burr
Brown OPA627. This Burr Brown opamp is probably made for those who are
interested in very precise, sharply focused soundstages. It still is a very
"musical" sounding Burr Brown, with great respect for tonal colour,
and rich harmonic structures of instruments and voices. Bösendorfer sounds like
Bösendorfer and Fender sounds like Fender. It has loads of air and distance
between instruments, within the soundstage. The image also "opens"
up, better and more "life like", compared to the original used budget
OPA604. Detail and ambient information are the stronger points. What really
stroke me, was depth and width within the "sound projection" which
comes close to what I know from much more expensive CD players! The "to be
there" feeling is enormous, and dull (often popular) recordings, are more
"tasty" and way more enjoyable. But beware: it's that good that it
simply proves how "bad" recordings can be... But after all, are we
audiophiles not always looking for the naked truth?"
and he continues:
"Analog Devices LC/AD825. This Analog Devices opamp is
actually a SMD on a "mini pc-board" together with a couple of Silver
Mica capacitors. It has a long "run in" period and is immediately
impressing with very "warm" and lush sounds. In the beginning, I
thought we simply made a mistake to consider this as a possible option:
"There's no way, we can advice this little one!" I was thinking out
loud ... Until I got the idea that perhaps the combination with my Philips
E288CC SQ GP's was not the luckiest one. After installing the original Philips
JAN 6922's it was immediately clear, that warm + warm was perhaps a little too
hot ... The soundstage melted together and became sticky. Bass was simply
undefined, until... Indeed. The overall presentation became way more clearer
with the 6922's, and the sound reminded me of the early tjoeb days ... AH!
Tjoeb ‘99 sounds ... Enough respect to detail and precision (better than
OPA604) and a nice, soft, velvet top end. Bass and mid bass have more
"compound" and mid/treble is "open" and clear. Voices are
just to die for. I guess this one is best recommend to those listening to
"small" loudspeakers, because it is -just little- bigger imposing. I
really liked the "easy" and very pleasant dynamics. Nice ambient
"sense" and great sound staging also came to mind."
General Conclusion: These
options are highly recommended to those who want more of the good Tjoeb stuff.
A
full list of available AH! articles with the current prices for
EC and non-EC members has been added to the website. Those of you who are
hoping to see the pictures of the products once they click on the small
cameras, have to be patient for a couple of weeks, I am afraid.
More
information is added to the technical section of this site. Now information and
pictures are published re the WAGO connectors we use in the AH! Njoe
Tjoeb 4000.
Reactions on Tjoeb Tjoens and TjoUpsampler are very good. We have a growing list of reservations for the TjoUpsampler and our stock of Tjoeb
Tjoens is almost gone.
I realized today that
there must be a number of "early" AH! Njoe Tjoeb 4000
owners who even don't know the current logos we use on the player and
remote-control. For them we show these here and of course they can contact us
for a free set of these.
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The
instructions how to replace the original OEM logos with the shown AH!
logos, can be found in our technical section of this website. Click here.
Just
updated the technical pages with instructions how to install the AH!
AC DIREKT KB 8 in the AH! Njoe Tjoeb 4000 cd-player. Click here to go to the technical pages.
Sunday,
April 14 2002 - 23.15
Now
and than we are experimenting with the products / prototypes in our stores,
where we have lots of high-quality stuff to compare with. You cannot (and we
don't want to) avoid that customers / visitors see and hear what we are doing. During
last few weeks we have been playing on and off with our new AH! TjoUpsampler.
If you visit www.audioasylum.com and search for " TjoUpsampler
" you can see how fast good news travels! As said earlier this week,
it is possible to reserve here for earliest delivery of the new AH!
TjoUpsampler. This week I will make a few photographs of the proto
TjoUpsamplers we have.
Slowly by slowly we continue to create a special AH! section on
this website. If you have any further suggestions, please send us a short email.
Wednesday,
April 10 2002 - 21.30
As
announced last week, we do have a special choice of opamps for AH!
Njoe Tjoeb 4000 owners, but also for other people who can use these single
opamps for upgrading their equipment. As these TjoebTjoens are not needed
anymore if you decide to buy an AH! TjoUpsampler (reserve here), we have a special trade-in programm for these parts:
The AH! TjoUpsampler's introduction price is EUR 325,-. You can
trade in your original BB 604 set + Philips DAC for EUR 10,-. The Tjoeb Tjoens
OPA627 set trades in for EUR 25,- and the Tjoeb Tjoens LC/AD825 set for EUR 15.
This gives all the AH! Njoe Tjoeb 4000 owners the maximum
possibility to "play" with their machine and sound at minimum cost.
Last weeks several customers have upgraded their ac and dc cables with AH!
KB8 and AH! KB10 cables. All of them agreed this to be a major
upgrade. One of our customers (owning Krell FPB650m amps and Wilson Audio Grand
Slam loudspeakers claims his already good sounding Krell KRC-HR preamp sounds
10 times better with the new AH! KB8 connection between his
powersupply and preamp. Watch out for further description of this upgrade,
which certainly will become available as an AH! Upgrade
Kit.
Wednesday, April 3 2002 - 03.30
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What you see on the left are two types of highest-quality OpAmps to fine-tune your AH! Njoe Tjoeb 4000. Same idea as what people do with different tubes. We have chosen for 2 sets. A set of 2 Burr Brown OPA627 OpAmps and a set of 2 LC-Audio/Analog Devices AD 825. Marcel van Overbeek has been listening to both of them and his conclusions will be soon available on this site. In fact they should already have been here, if I didn't mess up the story. By the way, the AH! name for these Opamps is: TjoebTjoens (pronounce: tube-tunes). The TjoebTjoens are available NOW from stock in LIMITED QUANTITIES. Enjoy. |
Monday, April 1 2002 - 13.30
OK,
it's done! You can click here for the AH! Njoe Tjoeb 4000
review in Hi-Fi World Magazine. ATTENTION! It's a long article with lots of photographs, so it may
take some time to load. Have fun and off we go.
Monday,
April 1 2002 - 01.30
Happy
Eastern for all of you and hopefully tomorrow again some sunny weather (in
Holland we celebrate 2 days of Eastern, Sunday and Monday). After that -and
that is NOT an April 1 joke- we are going to play with the new interface-software
for our Xenario©
(yes, also known as PrPrPr) range of electronics we have currently under
development.
