I-Qual Vacuum Disc Mate IQ1300A. DS-Audio have been busy with their optical phono cartridge and equalizer system for some time due to ongoing healthy demand from the audio community. As their networks improved, DS Audio set up a separate entity, DS Exports, to distribute some of their locally branded audio/analogue related products to the world. I knew Tetsuaki Aoyagi …
I have been playing this Nano Music (Japanese) UHQCD Crystal CD titled “SKYE Deep Blue” (a Singaporean Vocalist) through the Vitus Masterpiece CD Transport MPT-201 with Vitus Masterpiece DAC MPD-201. Her voice was so surreal, and a hair raising experience for me. It’s not just the detail but the presence and weight in her voice that brought forth a …
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Growing up in the late 60s and early 70s with hippie uncles, I was exposed at an early age to pop music that came from bootleg records. At our grandparents’ home in Kampong Sikamat New Village (yes, the birthplace of Yee Tao Mai Fun) in Seremban, we had an old radio the size of a microwave oven, a …
Release date: 12 October 1984 Label: Polydor (UK & Europe), Geffen (USA & Canada) Catalogue No: LCLP 1, M5-24064 In 1984, I turned 20 and was studying in a small Midwestern college in the USA, trying to pursue a degree in journalism and a good, proper academic life. Well, that’s what I told my parents anyway… Anyway, here’s …
Flemming Erik Rasmussen is a well known figure head in the audio industry. He founded the famed Gryphon Audio in 1985 with his first audio product, the now legendary Gryphon Head Amp. I was honored with a visit into my audio den from Flemming in 2012. At our first encounter, we became friend and could easily talk and share …
BRUTALE ACHILLES, PILIUM AUDIO Stereo Amplifier Pilium Audio’s Next Entry I readily admit that I am attracted to the brand Pilium Audio by the muscular looks of their products, especially their Achilles stereo amplifier of the Brutale range. On the other hand, I am also a fan of (smaller size) Linn products, especially their LP12 turntable and Klimax 500 Solo mono …
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark – Debut Release date: 22 February 1980 Label: Dindisc Catalogue No: DID 2 “THE FUTURE IS HERE!” This was the proud (and often, common) proclamation in the British music press back in 1980 when they review albums with a synth/electronic background. Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (OMD) came from a place with …