My high end audio journey started with tube electronics from Audio Innovations (Audio Note UK) and Conrad Johnson. Progressively, I went into, and bought the Audio Research 610T amplifier, the Audio Note UK Ongaku, the Audio Note UK M6 line stage, the Hovland HP-100 line stage and etc. Most of those components of mine were sold to my friends. However, …
Monthly Archives: December 2024
Few years ago, a dear audiophile friend of mine said that it was possible to enjoy the “Big Aural Presentation” of my audio system through headphones,…what a proposition?…mine you,…in my mind,… High End Headphones (at US $ Thousand) comparable to High (or Ultra) End Audio System (at US $ Million)?! -seemed like a case of David against Goliath (from the …
Genesis 1.1 (Modified), FM Acoustics, Transrotor Artus, Esoteric SACD, Vertere and more! I was treated to a pleasant hospitality and honour to listen to this compilation of one of the world finest audio gears to date. I was blown away by the experience. Nothing prepares me for a spectacularly huge and lifelike soundstage. Imaging was first class with palpability so …
I coined myself, a Gryphonist. My first encounter with a Gryphon Audio Designs product was their Colosseum stereo amplifier. I remembered how majestic it sounded and looked in my audio system. There and then I told their local representative, Reference Audio Singapore/ YY Sound Systems (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd that I be taking it. Shortly, I realised that they have coming …
JADIS’ André Calmettes‘ Lasting Passion. André Calmettes started making tube amplifiers and received praises,…’unanimously considered superior quality as compared to the best amplifiers at that time‘, from the audiophile community before he even started the JADIS company in 1983. One of the main key reason of his many praises and successes in designing and making tube amplifiers was his own …
CREATIVE AV (MALAYSIA) have just received the latest flagship Digital Media Player DMP A10 from EVERSOLO (CHINA). It was hefty and well build,…and employed the latest in digital to analogue conversion chipset,…, formidable power supply,…therefore expected to perform well(?!). Initial impression,…out from the box,…plugged in,…cold,…already sounded clean, detail, and good dynamic!
CREATIVE AV (MALAYSIA) or CAV has been in the audio business for around sixteen [16] years, and has been working well with most local audio distributors and dealers (How do I know?…’coz most of them that I talked to have businesses with CAV). When Alex, the head honcho of CAV informed me that his company would be representing Western Electric …
After I have finished the reviews of both GENESIS Series 7 loudspeakers, the Foxtrot and the Minuet, I connected the JADIS I-70 tube integrated amplifier (€13,100,…courtesy of YY SOUND SYSTEMS [MALAYSIA] SDN BHD and REFERENCE AUDIO SINGAPORE) to the Minuet with the SKOGRAND CABLES latest flagship speaker cables, the SILVERSPINE for a warm up…the first impression…all smiles(?).
Throughout the review sessions of the GENESIS Series 7 Foxtrot loudspeakers, not once I listen to the Series 7 Minuet loudspeakers. I wanted the experience with them to be fresh and unbias from the Foxtrot loudspeakers’ conclusion. It was clear from Gary Koh’s sharings that all three [3] number of models in the Series 7 loudspeakers, the Foxtrot, the Tango …