Audiophile knows Audiophile, Audiophile understands Audiophile, Audiophile designs/ makes for Audiophile, and Audiophile market to Audiophile,…at least for me,… The ‘Formula‘ at my time. I do not know about others (and maybe cannot speak for them?), but I am always frustrated to talk to a non audiophile about audio/phile,…and more so if that person is in the audio industry (imagine …
MALAYSIA have enjoyed a growth(!) in audio events. The latest was WAVE AV EXPERIENCE by GRYPHON PRODUCTION (MALAYSIA), a well-known and experienced concert and events production company. I went to the event at Friday and Saturday,…still I was unable to cover each and every exhibition therein. However, I was immensely… Entertained and Overwhelmed by the number of audiophile friends that …
Mr.Trevor Doyle, the owner of MASSIF AUDIO DESIGN from CANADA has generously sent me his personal RECORD WEIGHT* for review. *an honest note about record weights in general. A weight, or clamp will not transform a poorly set up system or one that isn’t particularly revealing. Most customers purchase a weight when every other reasonable step has been taken. …
A local veteran audiophile, Mr.Robin Chung has just purchased and listened (and enjoyed) to Ms.Lyn Stanley‘s final album “Tribute to 1924” One-Step 45rpm 2 x 180g vinyl record, Personally Signed and limited to 395 prints. The following was his words; “Just played it -3sides with Koetsu BL MC & 1side with Hana Umami Red MC– & my first impressions:1) immediately… …
AV DESIGNS (MALAYSIA) SDN BHD have just installed in their customer’s home base the massive ASCENDO 28” Passive Pro Infrasonic Subwoofer. The following message was sent by Mr.JoKi of AV DESIGNS, “Dato and all, Ascendo 28” sub was delivered and installed in customer’s system yesterday. It is made to work with his PMC Fenestria loudspeakers in his living room that …
My first exposure to the HYPER Sonic X-4 MC cartridge (said MC cartridge retails at US$18,000 or RINGGIT MALAYSIA RM81,000) was at YY SOUND SYSTEMS (MALAYSIA) SDN BHD‘s launch event for the GENESIS ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES FOXTROT and MINUET loudspeakers. There, the said MC cartridge was installed at the ORTOFON AS-309R tonearm on the TECHDAS AIR FORCE FIVE turntable (TECHDAS AFV), …
Recently, I was invited to an audio event, LIVE to TAPE Recording with EB DUET (local duet, Ms.Eve Wong and Mr.Billy Ho), and LUKANG AUDIO (TAIWAN) at BEGINS ACOUSTICS (MALAYSIA) SDN BHD. There I got to experience first hand comparison between EB DUET‘s LIVE performance with its recorded performance at both TAPE (R2R) and DIGITAL (HDD DSD). Consequently, I was …
This be my third [3rd] review for DS AUDIO (JAPAN) a well known specialised design, manufacture and proponent of Optical Phono Cartridge and Equalizer system. Through some searchings at the Net, I discovered that the technology started ‘with PHILCO‘s “Beam of Light” record player in the 1940s and later, with notable developments in the 1960s and 1970s by Japanese manufacturers …
The DS AUDIO (JAPAN) TB-100 is an all-tube phono equalizer designed to complement with any DS AUDIO Optical cartridge. Hence, Mr.Issac Ho of AUDIO PERFECTIONIST (MALAYSIA) SDN BHD delivered the DS AUDIO MASTER 3 Optical cartridge together with the TB-100 for review.
That was my first time to the ‘premises‘ of BEGINS ACOUSTIC (MALAYSIA) which was founded by Ms.Kenix Chua in 2015, an established audio engineer and… a proponent of Acoustic Treatments in any audio visual space. BEGINS ACOUSTIC specialises in the ever important ACOUSTIC TREATMENTS, SOUND PROOFING​, represents some premium AUDIO BRANDS/ HI-FI EQUIPMENT (LUKANG AUDIO, AUDIOVECTOR, MISSION, YUKIMO, TiGLON, T-ADLER, …