JayaOne HiFi shops

I wanted to visit NOVA HiFi yesterday so I dropped by JayaOne. I also know that a few more hifi shops have opened there, forumers having reported about them already here. It was encouraging to see that JayaOne seems to be developing into a replacement for CitySquare. Due to time constraints and the fact that I was looking for LPs, I only visited only one other shop besides NOVA HiFi and that is Audio Perfectionist, the dealer for MacIntosh. These two shops are the most 'typical' in layout as you see the main display showroom from the door with listening rooms located at the rear of the shop. The other shops, from the -outside- looks a bit less like hifi shops as there is a receptionist area right in front of the entrance. We won't see any equipment, certainly there are no rows and rows of amps, speakers, etc, lining up the frontage of the shop for us to ogle at from the outside. They are the generation of newer, I supposed more professional looking, 'studio' approach to hifi dealership versus the traditional hifi 'shop'.

Anyway at AP, A lady opened the door for me when I pressed the door-bell, a friendly and soft-spoken lady. AP has a small selection of LPs for sale and there were some interesting LPs there. I didn't buy anything though as I know I would be spending quite a bit at NOVA. But I plan to drop by again in the near future and get one of the Fei-Yue-Ching reissues. What seems to be an AP regular dropped by as well as he read about the new Mac releases in the newspaper and dropped by to check them out. The lady said stocks have not arrived yet (good 'excuse' for Mac fans to drop by AP in the near future !)

If you have an afternoon to 'burn' and wants to visit a shopping mall (sort of) and -still- get your hifi 'fix', it seems to me that JayaOne is a good place to -consider- (need to highlight that I am only -suggesting- you -consider- it so as to avoid being accused of recommending it ). There is a supermarket there so it would be a nice 'side trip' when your wife wants to do some grocery shopping. The B&W shop is actually in the same block as the supermarket.

I have been to Jaya One recently as I got to know that there are new showrooms. However, I have spent most of my time fiddling through the collection of LPs at Nova and AP. When I finally step out to go check out Clarity MP, it was closed. Better luck next time.

Clarity Audio has a soft opening yesterday.

Lots of food, wine, cheese, good music and pretty ladies,

nt