H van den Dungen

摘要

With a career that corresponds almost precisely with modern high-end audio, Herman van den Dungen can boast juggling three disciplines concurrently. He's a distributor, a retailer and a manufacturer, now best-known for PrimaLuna valve products. Regardless of your political stance, PrimaLuna's Chinese-made tube hardware was among the first to be acceptable by Western standards, Herman exploiting the low prices of manufacture in Asia, but insisting on reliability previously unknown in their electronics. The beneficiaries have been audiophiles on a budget. And it was pricing that got him started back in 1975.