DarTzeel’s new direction

Dartzeel puts a disproportionate amount of time, effort, and money into developing their casework to jewelry like standards.  This is reflected in their price.  Dartzeel could “easily” put the same circuitry into a lower cost casework without sacrificing performance, thus lowering the price.  

I’ve heard that Dartzeel integrated amp/streamer one box set up at the audio show a few months ago and it’s fantastic .. not sure how much it costs, but one of the best one box setups in the world I would think.

Personally I love the gold finish, I only want black, wood panels, champagne or gold finish on my gear... Whenever I see hideous bare aluminum or silver is the only option it goes straight to the crap  I’d never buy part of my brain.

Earlier I made a comment that simply said I heard that Dartzeel all in one integrated amp/streamer box at the Hifi show in socal a few months ago and that it was really good and I don't know what it costs, it's probably expensive...

I also said I like the gold finish, and I only like black, wood panel, champagne on my hifi gear and I think silver or bare aluminum is ugly ..

Apparently the audiogon mods didn't like this, they took my comment down, who the hell is censoring benign opinions about hifi equipment, tyrants get a tiny little bit of insignificant "power" and right away they like to flex control over others speech.

Maybe if I was vulgar, or rude, or way off topic I could understand .. is this audiogon mod some defender of silver electronics, and it's wrongthink to not like silver gear?? Pretty lame

Jealous Jason.

I owned one of the original Dartzeel NHB pre amps which I bought 2nd hand, it was about 4yrs old with the built in phono. I was going to get it upgraded to V2 or trade it in for a new one but there was a very long wait time, due to part shortages apparently, so went another route.

In the UK the preamp was around 15k GBP when it came out around 2004/5. Within a few years it went up to approx 24K due to the weakness of the pound.  According to the bank of England’s inflation calculator 24K (in 2008) would be 38k in todays money. Even allowing for some improvement costs the current a price tag of 54k  is a very large increase, needless to say it puts the amp in the ultra expensive category.

In 2008 the cost of the Dart NHB was equal to the average annual income in the UK (24k). Average income is currently around 30/4k so about 60% of a new Dartzeel. No wonder they are not flying off the shelf in spite of being an excellent amp!