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296 297 Janis also reports that the rollout for the new commercial amplifier product line is coming soon.“We got approval on three designs,”he says.“They’ve gone for initial inspections with UL (Underwriters Laboratories), and they’ve gone through initial inspections with the FCC (Federal Communications Division in the U.S.), and they’ve been able to pass those things.We’re waiting for the final metalwork to come in, you know, little finish issues, and if the prototype,which is sup- posed to arrive this week, comes, and everybody’s happy,we hit the go button and start shipping in July. So it’s imminent.” When asked where he would like to see Ra- dial Engineering several years up the road, Janis responds thusly: “Because we’ve got multiple continue to strive to come up with new areas of potential business and we diversified outside of the music industry into home listening and other businesses,”he states.“David Hafler started Dynaco in the 1950s and was a dominant player,back then.Mydad hadDynaco speakers at home-theywere the Sonyor Bose of their time.What DavidHafler did in the 1960s,was he presented an affordable tube amplifier.We own the Dynaco andHafler brands,now,and we’ve got a high-end,tube amplifier and a tube pre-amplifier on theway. “We’re putting out products that are going to be kind of nostalgic, yet updated for today’s music listen- ing tastes - still with tubes and at a reasonable price point compared to the competition.This tube amp that we’re coming out with–our com- petition’s is $5,000 or $8,000, let’s say.We’re coming in at about 3,000 bucks.And it’s going to be world class.”Another new product under the Hafler brand is a phono stage, also known as a phono pre-amp; it connects a turntable to a CD input. It’s a necessary item in many high- end systems for phonograph sound clarity.“You can spend $40,000 on a phono stage; ours is $600,” Janis adds. RADIAL ENGINEERING LTD.