My recent audio trip to Ipoh, MALAYSIA brought me to a new audiophile. He likes to remain anonymous for the meantime (I respect his wish). However, after some persuasion, he agreed to the following post only. Upon Entering the Audio Den, I was greeted by one of my favourite turntable, the ROKSAN TMS Mk.3 Turntable by Touraj Moghaddam (currently, the …
Recently, I was fortunate to be invited for a one day audio trip to Ipoh, MALAYSIA. There I got to visit three (3) audio set up in their respective dedicated and acoustically treated room. The following was my observations of the first visited audio set up. The First Visit to MASTER PHAN’s He was considered a senior audiophile among the …
FRANK ACOUSTICS have been designing and manufacturing audio components and loudspeakers/ subwoofers since 1998. Their products have proven themselves at performance and build quality, even fit for an Ultra End Audio System (personally I bought and used some of them). Thus, most of the local audiophile and some audiophile abroad that I knew, used their products…especially their well proven Power …
Our Seremban Audiophile, Adrian has upgraded his NAIM Audio System (remember the Open Door’s NAIM that Seremban System?) to a full PMC Active Loudspeakers System, the IB2S. The rest of the system consisted of the analogue source, KRONOS REFERENCE SYSTEM, the Tube preamplifier INCITO S from ARIES CERAT, and digital source from ZIDOO NEO ALPHA. The system, though installed for …
Recently, I was told a not so good news…that a dear audiophile, (Mr.) Jei has suffered rain water flooding into his house. Fortunately, his family and himself were safe…however, most of their belongings affixed in the house were damaged beyond repair. Fortunately, most of his audio components were saved except a unit of FRANK ACOUSTICS PB-15000Ws Power Bank (which the …
This time around, I got to listen to the audio set up together with some seasoned audiophile. The following was a written review from Joseph Ki (of the famed collector of LS3/5A),“…listening to it live is of course better than a portable recording. This time Lu Da’s focus is on the low frequency, increasing its energy and then controlling it. …
I believe that once you change the final transducers, you are in for a whole new audio presentation. Here, my audiophile friend decided to upgrade his loudspeakers to the WILSON SASHA. I was there a few times already, my impression was ‘dynamic, good PRaT and detail’…a few more steps in fine tuning, I believe that “(Ms.) Sally Yeh (Hong Kong …
After a long hiatus due to the Covid Pandemic, my audiophile bones started to stiffen up…when can I move again? As Malaysia’s Covid situation started to be more controlled thus SOP started to loosened a bit…invitation to fellow Audiophile’s home audio set up started to come. Paul Chong, a reputable dealer in used vinyl records and CDs at Amcorp …
The hobby got expanded to Comic Statue Collection. We have here a 1/2 scale Marvel Iron Man from Queen Studio. Brilliantly detailed and heavily weighted! However, there was a calculated reason for that addition in the audio room…later
I admit that this is more of a virtual ‘open door‘ than an actual physical visit. CENTRE CIRCLE AUDIO VISUAL have just delivered the ARIES CERAT INCITO S tube preamplifier and the IANUS mono tube amplifiers that I just listened at their showroom, to this lucky owner. I was told that he owned an ARIES CERAT KASSANDRA DAC and, there after decided …