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 …
PILIUM AUDIO from GREECE was founded in 2014. It is headed by the ever-passionate and inspiring Mr.KONSTANTINOS PILIOS. It is well known that there is already a number of High End Audio Designers and Manufacturers that use PILIUM AUDIO components in their respective audio system and showrooms,… and that is a testament of PILIUM AUDIO‘s QUALITY, DESIGN, MANUFACTURE, and PERFORMANCE! …
A short two weeks after the ASCENDO 28” Pro-Passive Squared Subwoofer’s launch event at AV DESIGNS (MALAYSIA) SDN BHD (article of the launch event available here), I was invited for a private listening session to it where it was coupled to a stereo system, consisted of the INNUOS ZENITH NG Server/ Streamer (just reviewed here), BRYSTON pre and power amp, …
PURPOSE BEING,… I was given my first exposure and experience to WYWIRES DIAMOND Series AES digital cable (retail Ringgit Malaysia RM7650 for standard 4′ length) when I took delivery of the INNUOS ZENITH NG Server and Streamer (/Digital Tansport that required an external Digital to Analog Converter/ DAC) for review. PURPOSE BEING,…that that INNUOS ZENITH NG was fitted with the …
After my positive review of TiGLON (from JAPAN, since 2008 by Mr.KENTARO OKINO) TPL-3000A WHITE TIGER AC Flagship/ Exclusive power cord,…Ms.Kenix Chua of BEGINS ACOUSTIC (MALAYSIA) SDN BHD proposed that I should give a listen to/ review their TiGLON TPL-2000SP Flagship speaker cable,… and she believed that I would be ‘SURPRISED‘ (?). Being a ‘Curious Cat‘, I did google their …
I felt strongly after the exposure to the Video Quality of the JVC latest Flagship 3rd Generation Native 4K D-ILA Device that Upscale to 8K Laser Projector DLA-NZ900 (retail at Ringgit Malaysia RM119,999), at its recent launch event at AV DESIGNS (MALAYSIA) SDN BHD with KLINGEN & ERLESEN SDN BHD,…merited a dedicated article that could be considered its ‘review‘. Many …
Digital Server and/or Streamer have become the common source in most audio systems. Digital Streamer has been picking up its popularity due to the inconvenience of physical media, the easy accessibility of the net and the increasing number of platforms to stream music (at an affordable price). After my recent review of INNUOS STATEMENT Server and Streamer, the nice folks …
The German Company, ASCENDO GmbH was founded in 1999 by the three music enthusiasts Norbert Heinz, Stefan Köpf and Jürgen Scheuring in Stuttgart. They already made audio news with their ASCENDO M System and Z System loudspeakers during 2005,…that even peaked my interest (unfortunately, then ASCENDO was not represented at MALAYSIA). Later, ASCENDO GmbH expanded and founded ASCENDO IMMERSIVE AUDIO …