Another Visit to my Hifi heaven

This week again, i get to visit my HIFI heaven in Campbell complex KL, As compared to my last visit Harry had informed me in advance that there is some nice goody amp that is waiting for me to listen to.

So i head on to Campbell Complex to see whats up with the new amps in the shop. When i went in the setup was the JBL L3 speaker, but today it is powered by the Vincent audio power amp. with the a Conrad Johnson SC26 Preamp, which came in a few days ago, sounded sweet when i first listened, played some regular CD and had a go with the JBL, some music were a little harsh, and less in vocal focal, kind of smeared a little in the center. So me and Harry Wong hooked up the Pink Triangle Ventrical Speaker, on the Vincent Power amp. hmmm,, dont seem to sound right, nothing coming out, remember my last review on the Pink Triangle, it requires 100W minimum at 11Ohm, so, so far no other Amp available in the shop can make the Pink Triangle Sing, only the Naton Power amp.


Intitial Setup , JBL L3 with vincent audio, below is Pink Triangle with conrad SC 26The pink Triangle is now known as triangle speakers, from France, never measured the woofer size but the speaker is a thin and slim looking speakers, some dont like because they will say, "this speaker no bass lah" mind the words, because you are half right, its a damn difficult to drive speakers and it dont seem bass able kind of speakers, but deep down in my heart, i knew if you can make this baby sing it will sing like you have never listened before.

Nice little setup, as you can see, the alchemist audio came as a replacement later to see if it can fit into the matching of the current one, It sounded good, but lets talk about some audio review with the conrad johnson, We had some variety test cd but the one most impressed me is Global Beatz, it is percussion and perfect for testing bass and speed of the setup, Kari Bremnes will be another favourite, and with whole lot of other good Cds, that i will mention later. First up, Global Beatz, this CD can get in Rock corner, i'm going to get one copy of my own later Ori, for sure,


Now if you can see, by comparing the JBL L3 speakers, and the Pink Triangle, the Pink Triangle Ventrical speaker seems to be a little too small in the woofer size, dont you think, i think also too, but the specification states that it does from 20Khz all the way down to 40Hz, which i think i should give it a try on bass, Mid bass, no argument, this speaker does perform very well, how about low bass? Browsing through the Global Cd i came accross track 9 which has the certain dynamicness in testing the speaker. Track 9 is fast, has the sudden slam, and perfect high pitch with plenty of instruments flying here and there, also it does some nice bass,
The sound was fantastic, the speed and dynamic of the timbre sound was fantastic, it does very tight bass. at one moment of the track 9 the music stopped and the pink triangle was like pulling the handbrakes like making a sharp turn, imagine driving a car, that was fantastic, the speed the stop and the high frequency.

Then i went for some vocal, Kari Bremnes, this is my favourite album, superb vocal, and some nice bass. The ventrical went very well performing Kari's first song, now most speakers that i have listen in the shop would have a quick little break of the vocal, when she pulls her voice high,
the Ventrical never showed any of these signs, thats because it has a round ribbon tweeter, Ribbon tweeter never suffer from high frequency, they excel in it and performs human voice perfectly,

Conrad Johnson SC 26, with Naton power amp at the back.


California Audio Labs CD transport and Tube DAC, the source that we have been using, I hope to see the Almarro that will be arriving soon,

the Setup as i calculated was very close to 8.8K which was infact a nice number but with fantastic sound, Although it is used but the system sounds fantastic, It is all about matching the system.
We tried also on Snow Rose, mainly vocal and guitar, it is fine and perfect but i had listened this on a Ongaku before, so that was much different from this one, This has a bit hollow in terms of vocal and space, making it somehow the Valves are much better in performing vocal, especially 300B tubes. Single ended with high dB speakers.

Alchemist audio, preamp, was somehow a bit different from the SC26, although not much sigfinicant difference but it was kind of different in its staging and vocal, Bass wise, its pretty much the same. I later pop in some pop music from Arron Nevile and Tracy Chapman, it was not as satisfying in the Ventrical compare to JBL and Infinity. Thats because the bass doesnt come in like it suppose to be. Its funny that somehow other music the Ventrical shine so well and impresses those who listen to it, but somehow the modern pop songs it dont serve it well.

I then pop in Hotel California, it was ok, but as i was saying, you dont get that bass that you know how the music sound like, remember i was telling you the bass for some music was fantastic, but in hotel california it failed, i probably think these kind of music a small speaker like that would not be able to perform. Harry said that the room was a little too big for the speaker but it were to be in a smaller room it would do very musch better.
Some how, if you want great bass, you still need a nice large woofer.

I didnt quit there, moved the Ventrical back against the wall, bass improved, but i realise one thing the imaging had blured and no more, sad sad, i had the bass improved but i removed the imaging,
So i had it moved back to its original position and the bass was gone, I have to learn speaker positioning, it is really important because this is how sound is reflected, how you can improve bass impact, and staging.

Time was not on my side but today i had had a very wonderful time with Harry exchanging knowledge about hifi and how we can improve better, hopefully the next shipment will have plenty more to play with.



Then and then is the Ventrical a worth buy? my answer, if you have the power like 350 Watter you can, take it to Symphony Classic audio and see if it matches the speakers. You will be impressed if you have so much power it can only drive a small speaker like this, but if your amp makes the Ventrical sing, you may fall in love with the Ventrical.

Im one of them, but only if the Naton had much better vocal performance it would be a total package, Classical Music, Music, Percussion and Jazz, this setup is great to listen to. Only it lack to shine in Vocal, this reminds me of this years audio show setup the German Physiks Carbon speaker. it excels in Timbre and dynamicness of the music but vocal wise it dont do well. never like a horn or a ribbon.

Anyhow, each and every product has pros and cons, that is where the tuning comes in, Next round probably i will go to Harry's place to get some tuning gimmics to tune the setup to perform in vocal,
If you want to have a go with this speakers always feel free to drop by Harry's place in Campbell Complex KL nearby Sogo, and ask him to hook it up for you to have a go,

Harry also has plenty of other speaker brands that might interest you,

Till then enjoy reading see ya.

The First Acri LISA recorded in HUKM

This is the very first time in the history of HUKM to inject a MFIOL Acri LISA from Carl Zeiss Meditec, Acri Lisa is formerly from Acri Tec, which is now owned by Carl Zeiss Meditec is now available in Malaysia, togather with a new range of Toric MFIOL and also MICS platform,

Today's demand in lifestyle is so different from those days where the patient want to see far and near without wearing glasses. Its a era where patients are well informed about what is available in the market. Carl Zeiss is able to provide such services and products for patients that require MFIOL with Toric platform all togather in one nice package.

In the olden days, MFIOL or Multi Focal Intra Occular Lens were not up to standard providing the best results today. There were problematic Haloes, very Pupil Dependent and does not provide the best results. Patient sometimes ask for explantation of a MFIOL.

Everything has changed, here we have one of the top leading optical company and they have the very best to offer you a fantastic product you can get in the market, The Acri LISA which is packed with plenty of features and high tech optical designs will allow a patient to have better visual outcome and more predictable results for surgeons.

6/6 or known also as 20/20 which is perfect vision for a person to achieve is no more a criteria, what makes a better lens is how much detail and contrast a patient can see is very important also. In a MFIOL we split light and when you split light you will compromise on certain visual quality compare to monofocal IOL,

with features like asymmetric light distribution, pupil Independence, SMP technology and Aspheric technology, improves your vision when implanted with a Acri LISA.

Find out more with your Zeiss representative in your country, see ya,

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The ugly and hated has answered with a wake up call, a beautiful looking car

First of all i have to apologize about the pictures, yes yes is it not clear and quality is like shit,
well i took them with a camera phone in my car on a brochure, ok, how come got no nice real pictures, because i was not allowed to take them yesterday, i could have a mental memory of the car but i cannot transfer them to show you into the blog

So i knew about this beauty about 3 days ago, Sunday night i read NST cars bikes and truck, just reading and i came across this Forte, well first look, hmm very man's car, Then next look, not bad ah the backside.
Then the third look, wah got very nice goodies, then I look some more, the dashboard also i think ok lah, very nice loh, Kia mah not Mercedes or BMW, or Lexus leh, so nothing there to compare loh, but it does look good,

so i gave the article a go, so i read and read and seems good, but one thing surprises me, the price point, well how much must you pay for a 2.0L car, i mean the cheapest i ever seen so far here is Sylphy which is at RM103,000.00 thats cheaper than Civic 2.0 and Altis, so this one hmm a whooping RM93,000.00 for a 2.0L where can it be man, how is it possible, by the looks of it, the car should be about 100k above, cause firstly it has plenty of goodies some of us like, which others never bothered to provide, namely Toyota, Honda and Nissan, which indirectly means UMW, Tan Chong and Honda Malaysia,

the car Comes with 1.6 EX, 1.6SX and 2.0SX we will talk about the main feature but will compare the 2.0L, thats the best they offer. If the best can beat others then it is a steal.

So what's up with the goodies, 2.0L thats not is it has keyless entry, remember last time i was talking about in Sylphy? the key that you keep in the pocket and then press a button on the door handle and whoa lah, the car door unlocks.
Next you have push Start Stop engine buttons, well i was told you can get these goodies fixed to any of your car for about RM300 all in total, somewhere in Sunway, but how come 100k cars never bother to have when it is only like Less than a RM1k to fix goodies, Malaysian's dont deserve this kind of goodies? I think we are exploited by the 3 major Japanese car maker besides our unational car. P1 and P2.

My friend argued with me yesterday, saying Korean, has lost the market, totally, since those days and people who owned Korean Cars, cursed they never bought one. I hope that is about to change and a new wave is coming soon.
Well i took the chance to sit into the car and molested this very pretty looking car as much as i can, i mean molesting it, pushing buttons, feeling the steering and pressing this and that, sitting on the seat, can you imagine what i was doing? dont imagine,

So whats up with it,
Interior, i would say, ok, looks pretty amazing, sporty, nice plastic that feels not plastic, very solid plastic, air cond is fully auto climatic control, means like a 100k car, Sylphy don't have, only Altis, Civic does. which i think good. 1 point given to Kia Forte,
Then there is this Triptonic gear shift. hmm ok, Altis has them, Civic has shifters, same concept, then Sylphy dont need them so neutral, no extra points earn or loss.

There is also a auto matic cromic rear mirror, which means when someone high light you at the back you press this button the mirror darkens, ok not important, but a good nice feature.

Also what kind of ICE they have, no specific brand, but it comes with 6 CD changer, Ipod connector, and a USB interface for your mp3, like honda City, so i think it is sufficient, enough to cater for your current needs.

on the Steering wheel, it has control buttons, didnt paid attention to what it can control but the button sure feel good,

then the seats are ok, normal, nothing special, 2.0L you get leather. 6 airbags and fully safety eqquiped, talking about safety features, the car comes with TCS, EBD, CSC, ABS, and i think there is one more, you know the term, traction control system, electronic brake distribution, bla bla bla, every should have one. Plus 1 point for a less than 100k car for Traction control,
talking about safety, it has a active headrest for whipsplash.

downside, the engine, dont know how will it perform, but its a new generation engine and with CVT transmission, i think it should be ok, plus how expensive would it be to buy spare parts and also how long can the car last, previous korean cars gave a whole lot of problems, i dont know but was told. We hope that this one doesnt fail us, giving us a new confidence. Used price for Korean cars in out market isnt really good also, if you are looking at selling it with making less losses, dont buy this, but a Japanese car,



So who is to buy this car? Hmm, younger ppl, those who just came out working, dont want to buy a P1 or P2 but want some goodies that comes along with it, this is a perfect one, First car, and a great car, my opinion is get the 1.6 SX or the 2.0SX version , it is more worth the money,

i love this car, though i havent driven one, but on its outlook it does look good, very catchy, but untill then i cannot judge is it for me, although the price fits nicely into my catagory,

till then more reports.

more update

Some updates on more pictures of the meeting, I think one of the best decorated most comfortable place of all the booths, looks nice right, very comfortable to talk business, very high class, hmmm,, how come CZM cannot such thing ah,, always simple one, maybe drug company make tonnes more money compare to equipment seller.


Thats the CZM booth, some very expensive equipment around, and most importantly Miss Acri Lisa poster, well i think Lisa is one of the very best MFIOL you can get in the market, no doubt about that for the moment, period.

Thats Mr and Mrs Then, lovely couple, nice people.
this is lucas art , he and his pretty looking friend, couldnt remember her name, maybe i will ask her next time.

i dont think she knows mine also, but she loves to smile, thats good, well see ya all in the next coming meeting,, adios.

the Return of RO

Well i was just speaking to a leng lui last week, talking about where is RO, and a lot of ppl was also asking, including me, and here i bring you the return of RO.

RO was my former cheque writer, he has his own ways of managing people, some dont like and some like, i personally dont like his management style, but he was above me long time ago, i dont really know what happen to him but he is sure standing here the last 2 days and here to lead a dying company thats loosing focus,

no details on the reason he left but it was a amazing story. i got no details, and now his lines are "i'm back" hmm like arrnie, in T1 and T2 he is like arnie also, only thinking and more smooth,

i said hi to him but i really do respect him as a different kind of management style which does not suit me, but he loves ppl who wears skirt, never seen him likes ppl who cannot wear skirt,

well anyway welcome back RO and i wish all the best to him, i'm happy where i'm now and i just love it, love the business, and i wanna thank you for all the things you have said to me, and told me and screw me, and i have woken up and now i can face a better future,

ohh ,,, its over the busy weekend, but it is even more busy after this

"it aint over till it is really over" i thought the after the meeting i would be a bit more relax, but it is not really over, it was a busy weekend, but it was worth it. There were not many participants probably due to the attraction of shopping syndrome, so probably 1/3 were off to bintang road and KLCC, others came in and stayed to listen to talks, presentation and also learning new stuff,
The Eye industry is a really small one, so small all the time you see the same old faces, boring, but thats how it is. There are seldome new people and even if there is, you would be informed the next minute. Its that small.


Local meetings are usually very small and in just a few minutes you would have visited all the booths, so basically there is nothing much to see. It was fun to get along and catch up with some old pals and friends and competitor friends, and saying hi, how are you and whats up, nothing really all the same, not to brag too much about how much you have done, it sensitive, and afterthat probably some new introduction of some new machine. then thats all, most of the time if getting the delegates to come and chit chat, and get some good laugh and introduce and convince some machine specifications.


I tried to play chess with lucas, but he refuse and said he doesnt know, so i ended up playing on my own, how boring same old moves and i just gave up, because it was so boring. The chess set was really nice. Glass type. They were giving free sample of refresh tears away, you can get some next time in a eye meeting, it might be useful



The biggest of all, Alcon, probably you heard of, the Infinity vision, a nice sexy looking cataract machine, like J Lo they used to call it, the one in the back, thats transformers, looks like autobot, but it reminds me of futurama, a cartoon if you know, one of the episode bender, the robot fell in love with a robot something like that but pink in color, during their moon mission, to deliver some package. hahaha,,, big fat ugly one. i mean the robot in the cartoon, not this one, but this one, can buy you a E class, kompressor. its that expensive.



this is carl Zeiss very first Phaco machine, its a sort of a big thing for us and them Zeiss, because they are entering the surgical market, and you need a phaco machine for the surgical market, so now here we are with the new phaco machine and we hope to sell as many as we can, plus CZM has the very best technical service you can get in this country, wether it is phaco, or clinical , or the microscope, it is better off with a zeiss product. Serious, service is very important, you cannot have too long the down time, backup is important, so that the eye doctors are happy all the time.

well, it is not over till its really over, more updates later, not i got to go for stand by surgery, see what i mean by great service.

The Law of Attraction

Law of Attraction , some of you may have come across this law before, now its getting very hot, more and more people are talking about it and more and more are practicing it, its kind of a law if you believe or not, well it started 2 years ago when i was first introduced into this law and i have been trying to learn and understand about it, until today. there are much to know about it but knowing how to apply it is much more important, i want to go deep into learning this law and am doing so now. Since thousand of years ago, human has come across this law and those who knew were using it, and it seems that the law is being suppressed and not everyone has the access to it, only powerful man and women understood about the law, and how it works, and now it has been revealed. Using and understanding for a good introduction one should watch The Secret of The Law of Attraction, infact that movie is very very interesting, and it does mind blow you if you does not know about it. Everything in this world works in the basis of the Law of Attraction, you are attracting everything into your life.

so how does it happen, in the morning, i drove to work and along the way i spoke and practice about the law of attraction, and i was preaching about it, in the car to myself, and there is it, i attracted what i wanted into myself and i met a writer that wrote about the law, thats him mr Micheal Losier. Well i thought that i saw the ad somewhere in the papers.

That's me buying the book from him and he teaches the how to part, and his book it seems to be very good. at least it is more affordable compare to The Secret products. and im for sure to learn something from it and for sure deepens my knowledge on this powerful Law.


Next time i will write a little some thing that i have discovered and what i understand about this law and share with you out there about this law, by the way those people in the room are going to be future preaches and certified law trainer. hmmm i also would like to be one of them. maybe next time, because im actually working the two days, and it is just this law that works and trust me, i attracted it and now im being given the chance and i took action to get what i want, i sent a signal out there to know more about the law, and here im given the chance. and i took it. talking about de ja vu, but i let you do the thinking and hopefully you and i can benefit from this knowledge.

keep wishing, and dream on the things you want, work towards it, dont loose hope and you will be given a chance and when the chance comes, dont think just grab it and dont look back, then you are practicing the law and you are attracting yourself to the things you want. And you will smile more often when everything works out, just like me in the picture

i love the Law of Attraction.

busy busy week for me!!!

This week is like no time you warm my office chair, going early to work at 7 am then coming back only at 8 pm

this is killing me, this weekend, is no usual weekend, i got to go to Renaissance hotel in KL to work on a Malaysia Singapore joint meeting, sigh.. work, but next week i be in thailand, 2 nice holiday but half work and half holiday, wheres the fun in that.

anyway i have missed my Gym session this week due to this schedule, hang on there, i be a rich man in no time, now is just the starting, and i will suceed in life,

Last night i continue to read my Rich Dad Poor Dad book, it was again , reminding me again why i need to be rich, and money work for me, hopefully when i m in my early 30's i will be a rich person, selling very very well.

To all of you who feel like wanna quit , don't quit, just do it, and you will know something will come up the moment you wanna let it go... see ya...

today's schedule

go to Center for sight, Sent DCR machine back
then head to subang eye, show Dr how to use BB lens.
Then go to ukm, sent order, then pick Cat up
go to Renaissance hotel , help arround
then sent Cat back

then only i can finish for the day, i think it be very late by then

ahh, i will need more energy,

Nissan Sylphy 2.0

Yesterday was a really nice day, Me and my in laws, went down to Jalan Ipoh, Nissan show room to check out on the Nissan Sentra by right, and why where they looking at the Sentra, See my dad in law is looking for a new car, and they happen to find out that Nissan is giving a huge discount on the 2009 Nissan Sentra Sport model, about RM11k. Never know about the details. But i do know about a large discount on the Sentra Sport 1.6L that is about to go extinct very soon. By right it was my dad in law to buy the car, but the eldest son took the chance to grab it, well i personally think it is a good buy, only thing with Sentra, my dad owns one, a 1.8L leather interior, its really nice, but a little cramp in the rear seat. On the other hand, i took the chance to look at a couple of cars available in the show room.

since the day of its launch, i never got the chance to test drive a Sylphy 2.0, probably because of the new hot car everyone wants want, so at that time, no one bothered to let a young guy like me to take the car for a ride, now things are a little more cool down so well, they have the urge to sell and plus someone was buying a car, and thats where i took the chance to test drive this model which i longed to take it down on the road, ok, firstly talking about interior, it is super spacious, comparing to Sentra, and with its 500L boot capacity, i think it is a wonderful kind of family sedan, most importantly at 2.0L it will cost you arround RM106,000.00 after discount, price point between Honda and Toyota, Nissan probably is much cheaper, of course a cheaper car means you get less goodies that comes with it. The Singapore version would come with a Electric Seat with programmable function and also memory seating position for different keys, i presume thats the meaning from reading the website, and it has keyless Go entry, just like the 1.8L and 1.6L Latio and Latio Sport, means no need to fumble with keys when starting the engine and entering the car, just press buttons. A lot of premium cars has this kind of feature now adays,


looks wise, i leave it to you to judge, i personally dont think it look good, kind of old, and lady like car, but lets talk about the interior which i feel is much more comfortable than a lot of this C segment sedan in the market, firstly the space, it is huge, very huge, with my driving seat postion adjusted, the rear person presumebly my size could seat with no problem crossing legs, and reading news paper with ease, feels so much like a tau keh, seats are comfortable with nice fabric, leather is an option, add another RM2000.00. I felt that the finishing was perfect, with no sign of cheap plastics, everything feels very solid, nice to touch and feels it could last, like a premium car,
downside is, no steering wheel buttons to adjust audio control, 100k car no such feature ? No Xenon light, the Latio 1.8L has xenon headlight, and the center deck, hmm, king of weird design with a large hole in it, the hand brake or parking brake are nice, they are like on the padel floor, this gives more room design for the center deck, i personally feel, if a woman drives this car, ok nice and family like, but a man, the entire design concept of this car i think it was probably for a mid age lady who loves shopping, marketing and fetching children to and frow to school and tution. firstly is the gear, cool CVT system with Xtronic gear drive, no gear change, you can call it infinity number of gear, i never drove any car that is like this, it feels smooth all the way, according to the sales person, the car will feel acceleration all the way to 180km/h with no feeling of lag in gear change, it is drive by wire, and power on demand, some marketing terms i presume, let you figure it out, im no good at this, but still learning,
Consumption presumebly is at 16KM/L which is i think ok , normal, not very shining but just like any other car, althought i didnt get to drive on a highway, which i was looking forward to, but city driving this car is nice, you will feel it is very light, like drving a very luxiorious car, plus my mom in law didnt complain about the rear part after seating in the Sentra. Power on the low RPM, is good, responsive, press accelerator the car moves, no lag or drag, with 5 person on board, it just moves,

Conclusion is, if you like comfortable interior, nice finishing touch, no plastic feeling, and luxiourous feeling, you can consider this one, for its price point, i think they did it right, to segment their self properly in price point, altough they took out the goodies, but overall if you dont want those keyless thing and electronic seats, this car is fine, just for driving,
If you are looking at power, looks,features, control, and a lot of goodies, leave this out, test the other brands, then only if you cannot decide and thought of saving some money for future, consider this, or if you are buying for your wife to drive this is nice, she wont complain. i presume, and so does your kids, it easy to drive large boot space and very comfortable interior,

plus point : price, great interior finishing, Xtronic drive ( arguable), interior quality finishing, city driving, EBD, ABS, dual Airbag, super spacious boot and interior, parking brek, electric power steering, drive by wire,

downside : no traction control, No button control on steering, no triptronic shift, keyless go, Xenon lights, exterior looks( arguable), power on upper RPM, probably would not shine like Honda or Toyota, funny looking center console,

Just woke up ??????

Well i just woke up, first thing turn on PC, next thing check on my blog, but no comments, sad sad,,

i have just added somethings into the blog, and now hmm what shall i be doing today?

Probably go to 1 utama later to get my wife's watch Solvic Titus, i think i spelled it right, to be shortened the chain.

It is her birthday present. Well hmmm, ok see YA!

A visit to my Regular Hifi Shop

Well, as you know i happen to be a hifi Kaki, as hifi kaki's we like to go to our regular or friendly hifi shop just to drop by pay some visit and get to know some new stuff, just like any other blogger, we talk mostly of what we like most and mine happen to be Hifi,
So where is the shop? It is in Dang Wangi, a newly open hifi shop, small one, mainly dealing with used products, nice stuff here, and the owner happened to be the person who sold me a pair of pre and power Audio Research, this guy is a really nice guy, you can visit his blog at http://symphonyclassicaudio.blogspot.com/

So today, Friday the 13th, i went for a visit, as usual, this shop is in Campbell Complex, oposite Sogo and the cross junction, where the public busses meeting point, well let me get a map to show next time,

What is in our recipe today? Well because he mainly deals with used items, so we had a Audio Research SP9, as pre, Carver power amp, Naton Power amp and we tested a couple unit of speakers, Source was California Audio Labs transport tube DAC. Cables were Transparent, monster, and audio quest, couldnt remember the models, but these were the brands,

First up the setup
















JBL L3 model, nice pair of speakers, great tweeter made of titanium. The speaker is being pushed by a carver TFM-15CB amp. dont really know the ratings, but the amp sure could push smoothly without trouble. The JBL performed with power, tight bass and emotion, for a speaker that is kind of old, by the looks. it does sound great, playing various kind of songs, from Vocal tracy chapman, A womens heart, to classical music, and then some classic rock, by issley brothers, then pushing the speaker to limits, testing with some china audiophile cd, it does very well, Firstly the setup was not really fantastic, Harry, who is the owner and also a kaki for many years, said the sound of tracy Chapman was not right, at that time the cables were CD to pre, Audio quest, and pre to power was transparent, it didnt sound that great. then we changed the interconnect of the CD to Pre, to a newly bought used cable, silver coated, and the bass and treble quickly show significant difference, bass was much tighter compared to audio quest.

Harry teaches a very important principle that is to achieve high fidelity in audio reproduction, one must learn the art of matching, it is important even if a equipment or setup does not match




















would not sound as great or good as it was suppose to be, I as a new comer, wont have that touch in matching, due to the lack of experience and also knowledge in what is expected and how to maximise the use of available products.

This 2 way JBL L3 has a bass port at the back, and it doesnt come with spikes,

Oh by the way, i didnt take note of the speaker cables, so i wont be able to tell what brand was it, maybe i could ask Harry later, he is asleep i presume at this kind of time ,

After trying out with the JBL L3, we decided to change and test the OHM speaker

Now the sound was not as good, nothing is coming out, the Carver amp couldnt perform or push the passive woofer of the speaker . The Ohm works in a very unique way, the woofer is a pasive kind, which means no connection or any sort into a crossover, it depends on the compression of the mid range to push the woofer passively from the inside of the box. the tweeter is outside of the speaker box and it can move side to side to suite the sweet spot, Then Harry thought that the amp hasnt got enough juice to push it, and we took the Naton amp, unknown to many including both of us, but the amp does give a lot of surprises, "that one in another story next time".

Sorry forget to take pictures of those, but promise from me next time there will be more pictures of the things we test.















We hooked the Naton amp. And whoa la! the sound comes out, vocals are more prominent and bass is much tighter, with the Carver amp, the sound had no energy in it, In the Naton setup the Ohm speaker begins to shine,

We continued testing since the Naton Amp was hooked up, we took out the 11 ohm Pink Triangle Ventrical Speaker, Small, little but 11 ohm, recomended power 100 watts, which amp does 11ohm at 100 watts, this calculate to about at least 200 watts into 8 ohms to make this baby shine, The pink triangle Ventrical speaker was a headache the last time we tried it, it consumed power like no other speakers available here, even
the Allegro intergrated amp with high current
amp couldnt push this baby, maybe one day, amp














will come by and with proper matching, we will succeed in making this baby sing, its a nice speaker but it is a really difficult to push pair of speakers, the Naton power amp, presumebly a 200 watter did quite well in the pink triangle, and i respect that unknown brand amp, with its raw power, it is kind of rough, but it does make a lot of speakers perform very well, but its vocals are not as smooth as the others like the Carver for instance, and also the Parasound which we tried last week. But the Naton power amp is one amp you should not look down at.
So with the pink triangle test with the usual test CD's i could say it was a Friday 13th days worth spending in this place, Symphony Classic Audio, and i do reconmend those that are looking at used audio items, and also vintage audio could take a look at this place in Campbell complex Jalan Dang Wangi, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Well have a great weekend, and i promise more pictures next time,

Friday the 13th!!!!

Hello everyone, you all know today is Friday the 13th, i dont know whats gonna happen, but i think it should be a very nice day.

So be happy even though it may sound and look bad, because it never rain every day.

Cheer up, lets all be more happy today

My KL home setup

This is my audio setup cum Hometheater in my house in Shah Alam, simple cheap and economical, it comes with a 42 inch LCD TV, and a 5.1 channel power amp, This is the heart of the Setup. As you can see, this is the power amp im using, very rare brand in our country, Ceratec, Penta 5, you probably never heard of it before, probably you have, but you couldn't remember where you have seen it.

This is a great amp, 80 watter x 5 channels, and it is a class D amp. This powers my Kef Coda 70, which was given down to me by my dad, where he had an updated pair of speakers for himself. Will talk about that next time.

















this is the picture that shows all the front setup, the right hand side is the subwoofer, cost really cheap was from my pc speaker, bought in lowyat plaza many many moons ago, i had 2 of these, but they really kick ass, only fail to give the 15 incher punch. it does the bass good and well done only missing the feel, hope to change soon, but i'm so reluctant as this subwoofer has followed me since college, that is like 8 years ago, so long still working so well,

as you can see, im more into a HTPC kind of guy, so i dont have those AVRs that you see in most ppls setup. I may go into AVR, but probably later.

As for the center channel, its the sonic gear soundbar 2000. also cheap stuff, computer in origin, but it produce real clearity in vocal and high frequency. why i bought it, thats because i was using a even more cheapo computer speakers, and this was a great improvement for it, so much better and clearer,

As for the decoder, i use a computer soundcard, this one does Dolby Digital, and DTS and it goes all the way to 7.1, bought like moons ago, and still keeping it, it is a Creative Audigy 2 ZS, it is really a kick ass soundcard which comes with a built in decoder. No software here all hardware decoding, So the souncard is my processor.

Stay tune and i will show you how does my HTPC interface look like , see YA!!

Welcome Readers

Hello everyone!!!,

Well it is a nice day today 11 November 2009, the birth of may blog My Journey, My Life.

thanks for your time so scroll down and look through my creations, and feel free to comment if you have any and hopefully we can all work out something.

So keep this link on your tabs and i hope i can make you happy reading it,

See ya Soon!!!

regards
Sonyman