season’s greetings and happy holidays

First of all, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! 

If you celebrate neither and won’t be taking holidays, take comfort that you won’t be alone. I’ll be working throughout the last days of the year. Some hardware for my project is coming in so late that I have to work throughout the holidays to get things back on schedule. Pesky day job…

 

For diyparadise, it has been another bumper year. There were less new products than I hoped/planned for. However, this only means 2009 will be even more exciting!

 

It’s great to finally take part in an audio show. Though it’s local (in Malaysia), it’s still a good experience. Also, I finally listened to our Hedlund Horns in a totally different environment. This helps me to understand horn’s strengths and weaknesses better. If we didn’t participate in this audio show, I wouldn’t learn more about this. Hey, no one lugs around 80kg of speakers (each weighs that much!) around for audition!

 

The audio show also afforded us the rare opportunity to meet so many customers. You know, we are hermits. We only meet with our suppliers, vendors and Fedex delivery guys. Occasionally we meet up with customers, but it’s more of a one-to-one basis, and never more than 5 in one go. So imagine meeting up with over 2500+ visitors in 3 days!

 

Just before the end of the year, I’m proud we managed to launch Beyonce! – our volume control/preamp kit. You could view her as the successor to our earlier Maggie the autoformer volume control. And we have more products coming up!

 

On the forum, you noticed I showed pics of a DAC-Preamp, that’s Monica and Beyonce in one chassis. I really like this concept and feel that you get much better sonics this way rather than having a pesky interconnect cable in between. How do we know this? Because we have tried so.

 

In the pipeline for 2009, we should be releasing Charlize’s more powerful sister, at 100W per channel!

New speaker products! We are pleased to now distribute the excellent Merrill DCA speaker drivers and it just makes perfect sense to sell them in speaker enclosures! You could view these as the successor to Sophia, our SeTH Horn based on the Jordan JX92s.

Tube preamp/headphone amp. This has taken quite a while but I hope we could release in the coming year.

Phono stage. Oh yeah, we are not all DIGITAL crazy. We know some of you are anal, err I mean, analog guys too, so we got to have something for you guys too.

 

Oh well, that’s just some of the products we intend to launch in 2009. No promises they will see the light of day. *Sometimes I’m just talk!* But rest easy, as always, we have your sonics in mind.

 

Again, Merry Christmas! Happy New Year and Happy Holidays!

20 December 2008 | diyparadise | Comments