Our true passion for music reproduction, which we have nurtured for 25 years, led us on a long quest to design an audio amplifier that can convey the emotions at the heart of a musical performance.

We are very proud to introduce the long-awaited result, the darTZeel NHB-108 model one stereo amplifier. Most consumer products today—even some very expensive audio components—are designed primarily from the standpoints of manufacturing efficiency and cost savings.

We beg to differ.

At darTZeel, the only question we want to answer is: Does it make the music feel real? Our passion drove us to spend 16 years researching and developing every possible aspect of a new audio circuit, embodied in a completely new amplifier.

Amplifier circuits have, in the past, usually been considered to be relatively simple. You can be assured that for us to spend 16 years on one design, “measured performance” alone was not our only goal. Please download and read at your leisure our "Audiophile's technical manual", which tells the epic tale of our quest!

Our products, before anything, are designed and realized from a purely humanistic point of view. For us, music is not only a means for communicating and listening. Far more than this, for us music is a powerful means of soul expression—even of spiritual development.

Emotions that music generates are to be carefully taken in account in the design process. Technology is only then applied to enhance the emotions, even transcend them, without altering them.

Once that goal is reached, we then can concentrate on the "electrical performance" aspect. That’s why we have a test bench.

Listen first, measure later.
Never the other way around.
That is the way we design our products.
The darTZeel NHB-108 model one is our first commercial product. You can be assured that others will soon follow…

We invite you to discover the darTZeel NHB-108 model one through the pages of this web site.

Clues to technical matters are not obvious, so fascinating is the instrument’s beauty. Yet, the instrument maker is in addition to being a skilled woodworker and perhaps even a musician, a pure technician. The huge pull the strings apply to the neck requires failsafe engineering know-how. Materials not only need to resist to that formidable traction, they also have to last, for quite a long time indeed.

Different species of wood are utilized in the construction process. The neck, the fingerboard, and the resonating body, each has its own characteristics, being mechanical resistance, density, and typical timbre.

What will ultimately make the difference between an ordinary instrument and a true masterpiece, is the maker’s technique. We mean that the technique is used to serve the music, and not the other way around. Everybody knows that the instrument maker will always make the right choices in choosing the woods and marrying them together for the best balance between the technical constraints and musical aims.

When a professional musician buys an instrument, he or she will probably choose it first for its sound, then for its build quality. The quality of the construction, though, is of almost the same importance as the sound itself. A well-made instrument will last virtually forever, and the high price paid at first will be many times rewarded by the pleasure of the happy owner.

In audio electronics, it is usually rather difficult to show that an aesthetic requirement led directly to a particular technical choice. It is hard enough even to demonstrate that one particular technical option has some valid role in obtaining better sound reproduction.

Complicating matters even more, most audio manufacturers use terms that can be misunderstood, or simply not understood at all, by the non-technician audiophile/music lover. Perhaps even several of those terms are not really helpful, and are only destined to confuse the customer. Thus, such components appear to be more mysterious than they really are, especially when those mysterious "secrets" are well preserved.

The true secret is the one which we can show without false modesty, and without particularly pointing at it, so well is it blended into the whole.

Designed from the outset to bring you a truly extraordinary musical experience, the darTZeel NHB-108 model one is also built to last decades.