Monthly Archives: June 2023

MISSION 778X The ‘Swiss Army Knife-Like’ Integrated Amplifier!

Lately, almost every well known British Audio Brand embarked into reissuing vintage products. They started with Monitor Speakers then progressed to the bigger Loudspeakers. Now, it seemed to be the Integrated Amplifier’s turn. I did enjoy such resurgence of vintage audio products manufacture. However, I was disappointed with the pricing of such reissued audio products. To me, those vintage audio …

HI FI FLAMENCO UHQLP to enjoy and gauge!

Another UHQLP 1 STEP vinyl album that I have in hand, HI FI FLAMENCO (1999 Victor Entertainment/ Modern Records UHQLP 3112 at www.modernaudio.com and www.funghang.com) that I played for the review. Literally, that was the least noise level presentation of the album irrespective of types of media, in my audio system (I do have multiple version of the CDs and vinyl record). I was …

‘SAINT MIC’ the UHQLP needed for your collection!

I played the above UHQLP 1 STEP vinyl through my TECHDAS AIR FORCE ONE turntable, VERTERE REFERENCE tonearm, ORTOFON MC ANNA phono cartridge and FM ACOUSTICS 223 PHONO MASTER, with the turntable only connected to the TELOS ‘MONSTER’ GNR. The album, ‘SAINT MIC‘ (1999 TIS Records/ Fung Hang Record Limited UHQLP 6038, at www.modernaudio.com and www.funghang.com) was by the gifted …

TELOS “MONSTER” GNR,…The Necessary Devil?!

TELOS AUDIO DESIGNS (since 2006) from TAIWAN needs no introduction here. Suffice to say that they have been very busy with their Grounding Noise Reducer (GNR) technology and products for more than a decade. They pioneered the GNR, an ‘active grounding’ unit with build-in CPU that constantly calculate and maintain ‘true zero potential ground‘ to easily and effectively ground away …