The Von Schweiker’s latest Flagship loudspeaker Ultra 11 is really ‘something to behold’. I am really impressed with the owner’s ability to fine tuned it to sing in a modestly sized audio room. Every tone enjoys its intended bandwidth thus bloom to its intended fullness. It’s easier to buy this beast (even though it comes with a heavy price) …
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 …