DS: And what will the price of the new phono stage be?
HD: I hope that the price for the new two smaller devices will be around 12.000 to 15,000 SFR, The problem with the Swiss products is that many people complain: “Your products are getting more and more expensive.” Yes. But that's not up to us, but rather the Swiss franc. The exchange rate of the Swiss franc is bad for the euro currency. This June, prices in dollars and euros fell slightly for the first time because these currencies were slightly stronger against the Swiss franc. But that is very rare. Usually the opposite is the case. Prices keep going up and up and up. The price of the LHC 208 is now around 25,000 or 27,000 euros, I'm not sure exactly. The goal is to make entry-level products at almost half the price. For darTZeel, these are really entry-level products. And on the other hand, we also have a new flagship preamplifier in the drawer, which should go better with the big monoblocks.. We are on it for a long time But it's not easy to beat our existing pre-amplifier because it's so good. It's not easy to build a better one. So we think about it and will not release something which is not really better. If it's not, I'm not the guy that says: “This is new. So it's better.” No, I only want to release it if it's really better. That's not easy because the original pre-amplifier uses some optical and analogue devices to build the volume control, and it's very transparent and it's very difficult to improve on that. We are working on it. The plan is also to release a smaller mono blocks in between the 108 and the big mono blocks, both in terms of price and power. We have a lot of projects. The only thing we lack is the time and money to develop more and faster.

DS: Aren't your 50-ohm-inputs a problem because your customer don't have anyother components that match them?
HD: Yes. But in our devices we also have RCA, BNC and XLR connectors. So if you have a darTZeel preamp and a power amp from a different brand, our the other way around, you can always connect them together. But there is no question: If you have two darTZeel devices with our 50-ohm-connections and use the appropriate cables, you will immediately hear a difference. So if you connect two darTZeel devices, that we call instruments, with our cable, you have more than the as sum of the of the separate parts, you have something bigger because the cable helps them shine more.