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JAC-Music was founded in 1993, originally as a hobby, building 845 based SE amplifiers. In 1994 I got in contact with the AVVT Electron Tubes company by coincidence. I kept in touch, and in 1998 they asked me to do their worldwide distribution. I agreed, and at that time the business was very small, and there were only three tubes in the program: 300B, 32B an 52B. For me this was just for the interest I had in it, and the business was only small. I convinced Alesa Vaic to expand his product range, and we went through a very innovative period. We were the first to re-issue a single plate 2A3 tube, and mesh tubes, and other nice tubes like the AD1, PX4, PX25, and the 274A. Today, you can buy a new made single plate 2A3 from several factories, but we were actually the FIRST to re-issue it. That was in the first days of the internet, and we were so happy we could gather inputs from people on the rec.audio.tubes Usenet forum, which was a big thing at that time. We didn't know exactly how to build the 2A3, and trial and error was the way we went. We started with a modified 300B but we couldn't get the characteristics that way like a real 2A3. Later we changed the construction to get a true 2A3. This was the first single plate 2A3 build ever since the big companies stopped with it, in the 1950's. No tube company had that tube available. Think of this while you can bay a 2A3 now from China, and Russia, and from Yugoslavia, that the first re-issue 2A3 I had on my desk made by AVVT. I still have this tube. It looks terrible, but it works. Quickly after that, we made a mesh version, based on some high quality mesh that I had made in Germany. It also had real 2A3 characteristics, and it was the first re-issued MESH 2A3 tube, that we made that way. I still have this tube, and it works perfect. It's a bit of a milestone of today's Retro-Tube-Technology. It has very thin plate wire, but it could do full 15 Watt, and it still works excellent. This was the first mesh tube ever re-build again, and we never changed anything fundamental to the design of that tube. The Chinese copied the use of mesh plates later, but use no mesh, but solid plate with punched holes. The initial ideas for a mesh tube came from some of our friends from the New York tube scene. (thanks Dave Slagle!). Today, there are many factories building 2A3, and 2A3 mesh, and so on. They are all followers of our ideas. Most of the marketing work was done by me, and the technical work was by Alesa Vaic, apart from the mesh wire, which was my work also. In 2002, unexpectedly AVVT decided to do all sales themselves, and I never understood what the big idea behind that was, but well plannned situations were not their thing anyway. In the Czech Republic, some ex-workers of AVVT were in the same surprize situation. They suddenly had no sales possibility, and it just happened we all teamed up, with the same motivation, to show AVVT what real good competition is going to look like. They never had any until we started up the Emission Labs (EML) Brand. We tried to be as good competition at we could, though we had to start with virtually no business. From the beginning business developed quite good. Today, EML produces a complete line of High Power Triodes that are unique in performance and appearance. Also we have re-made some original tubes for the first time again, like the 45. Added to this are now some limit-breaking tubes, like the 520B-V2 520B-V3 that were the largest single plate triodes with oxide cathodes, at the moment we introduced them. My hobbies are making music, and keeping my Hammond Organs in good condition.For those of you who know, I own an original B3 tone wheel organ, which has a mechanical tone generator, and all tubes electronics inside. The B3000 I have, is the no-tube version of the B3, both with the original Leslie Tone cabinets. The B3000 has Unfortunately I don't have the time to play them very much. The B3 I have is the same age as me. Here is a sound sample of the B3.
B3 Keyboards Here is some more info about hammond organs I am continuously looking to grow the product range of JAC-Music, and we want to supply a complete line of electronic components for tube applications.
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Hello, my name is Jac van de Walle, I am born in 1955 in Holland. I have been an electronics enthusiast ever since I was young. I finished my graduation in electronics in 1984, and started
my first job in R&D, designing Analog to Digital converters and
switched power supplies. In 1986, I went to Germany to
start working for Hewlett Packard, as an Application Engineer, and later
as a field sales engineer. In have stayed with HP until 2000,
when they split in Agilent and Hewlett Packard. I then took
a job at the Agilent Medical Division, and later at the Optical Components
Division. I left Agilent in 2003, to focus on my own company, JAC- Music. 