Malaysia - Negeri Sembilan Audiophiles Group

Shall we do 'X-Ray' on gems like 'Platinum' and 'Black Diamond' for this
coming gathering? Lately, precious metals are the 'IN' thing lah. Gold
is already on its record high.

Hey Max, precious metal & stones very expensive now man! Diamond cannot afford, what more the very rare black one! LOL! But I heard it's very smooth & detail, maybe some members cup of tea and I like it very much. I can also add a pair of balance cable in the mix too if you like and as COS said, don't ask what cable! And as usual, all need to bring unknown, unheard of, unseen before, unplugged cds to venue.

WongKN wrote:COS,

See whether the ABC tickles uncle-Jo's fancy or not la.

Wong Suk, I bet Uncle Jo will be very interested in it since he is also into it recently.

Btw, we can meet up this Sat. I am going to both dens.

Unc Jo, this is for you

*show backside.... *

cyh wrote:Hey Max, precious metal &
stones very expensive now man! Diamond cannot afford, what more the
very rare black one! LOL! But I heard it's very smooth & detail,
maybe some members cup of tea and I like it very much. I can also add a
pair of balance cable in the mix too if you like and as COS said, don't
ask what cable! And as usual, all need to bring unknown, unheard of, unseen before, unplugged cds to venue.

Seems like a blind test is in the pipeline for coming gathering!

Chefs meeting tmr. Will have some news after that. Judging from those posts above, we have some choices already. Looks like a Super Sunday is on the cards!!

Hi htkaki,



Thank you so much for the picture, regarding the ABC, I would love to sit in and see how a computer expert handle this, whether it is audiophile class or not! HiiHi...



For what I know, a proper digital player is very important, if you are using the laptop or PC, please stop publishing it here. You would loose credentials by doing so. It is as if one is using CDrom of our laptop or PC to spin CD for shoot-out.



If we don't do that to 16x44.1, please understand the implication when you do this to HiRes!!



Jo Ki

jokiarch wrote:Hi htkaki,

Thank you so much for the picture, regarding the ABC, I would love to sit in and see how a computer expert handle this, whether it is audiophile class or not! HiiHi...

For what I know, a proper digital player is very important, if you are using the laptop or PC, please stop publishing it here. You would loose credentials by doing so. It is as if one is using CDrom of our laptop or PC to spin CD for shoot-out.

If we don't do that to 16x44.1, please understand the implication when you do this to HiRes!!

Jo Ki

Unc Jo,

I am far off with IT and even handphone tech. Mugen can attest to that

I am using only netbook. Whatever CD Rom or those s/w makes me like a dinosaur.

I actually brought my Pioneer DVD-A / SACD player to the KLIAV. But, because of some setbacks, I decided not to use it. This one can pass kah?

Btw, someone need to bring a better DAC too. Bryston, perhaps since coming over.

Uncle-Jo,

Cannot play using laptop ? You are indeed a misinformed cave-man !

(joking only ya !)

NSAG, do you guys want to have a sneak peek on Sun of the toys? We might spring a surprise for you guys. Eerr.... not Momentum or FM Acoustics, dCS, Goldmund Telos or Ktema lah.

Before that, anything on for Friday? We can discuss then....

cyh wrote:Before that, anything on for Friday? We can discuss then....

Precious metal and stones for this Friday. Wait for venue confirmation.

Or perhaps Kiwi fruits will be served.

Btw, the Americans will be the center-stage for Sunday Special (not Papa Americano, mind you)

htkaki wrote:Unc Jo,

I am far off with IT and even handphone tech. Mugen can attest to that

I am using only netbook. Whatever CD Rom or those s/w makes me like a dinosaur.

I actually brought my Pioneer DVD-A / SACD player to the KLIAV. But, because of some setbacks, I decided not to use it. This one can pass kah?

Btw, someone need to bring a better DAC too. Bryston, perhaps since coming over.

Pioneer DVD-A/SACD is a good decent machine for the job, sure pass!!



But you as dinosaur? Cannot pass, you are too young!! Please don't underestimate the power of age!



But seriously, what you guys are doing is great! But uncle here is too old to unlock code speaking. My MI5 days are over, now just seriously into Music.

WongKN wrote:Uncle-Jo,

Cannot play using laptop ? You are indeed a misinformed cave-man !

(joking only ya !)

Ha.. very funny Wong-Suk! I am just cautioning you, gentle reminder to make sure that you are not bringing your laptop+external power supply+filtering caps+bits & bobs hanging off it to play HiRes only. Old folks like us needs reminding sometimes yunno.



So what are you going to do for ABC?

Uncle Jo,

So, without the laptop I am afraid we (you and I) will have to go stand in a corner while the fresh young up-to-date techno-savvy CAS crowd breezes past us !

I PM you on what I am thinking for the ABC ? I want to take revenge on this NSAG bargers for having too much fun without us old hags around ! So don't want to explain openly here, let them guess and frust a bit !

Ahhh..... never did I realise that Wong Suk and Unc Jo are of same uncle age (I know, I know. My time will come)

Wong Suk, you are not easy to get invited to our gathering lah. Jo did once and I bet there will be many more to come. Frust...? Afraid not so since we have Americano, I meant Americans for Sunday Special.

There will be no gathering next week as we are going to take a break. Most of NSAG members will be going for Raya holidays.

When we are back again, we might have European beauties for our gathering. Come è?

WongKN wrote:Uncle Jo,

So, without the laptop I am afraid we (you and I) will have to go stand in a corner while the fresh young up-to-date techno-savvy CAS crowd breezes past us !

I PM you on what I am thinking for the ABC ? I want to take revenge on this NSAG bargers for having too much fun without us old hags around ! So don't want to explain openly here, let them guess and frust a bit !

Ha..ha..yes! yes! Let the young NSAG punk frust a bit!! I am with you on this one! Show them so car-lar (colour) and let them respect uncles ar-bit!



Matters regarding ABC... the C required clear understanding of the Science before it can function properly. It is as demanding as vinyl playback, there is a lot of Science behind it before it can work well. Poorly conceived turntable scientifically will also works but it can never sound good. Similarly, just because a given machine can stream CAS, it does not means that you are "listening" to the HiRes; you simply listening to badly decoded HiRes thus giving wrong impression of what it is all about.



So far there is no writing about how to handle CAS machine properly in the web. But there are tons of materials on turntable by professors, Ph.D & mad scientists!



htkaki & COS, Americano or Eurobird are all OK, but are they served on French "Magic-lan"? I like this magic-lan; have you lost my CD or not:shock: ?



Jo Ki

Jo,



'Unfortunately' the CD is still with us. Guess you dont have to break your wall for the speakers.





Wah.. You guys start to talk about Papa Americano ah? Where is the favourite headshaking dance by our good friend?

jokiarch wrote:Ha..ha..yes! yes! Let the young NSAG punk frust a bit!! I am with you on this one! Show them so car-lar (colour) and let them respect uncles ar-bit!

htkaki & COS, Americano or Eurobird are all OK, but are they served on French "Magic-lan"? I like this magic-lan; have you lost my CD or not:shock: ?

Jo Ki

Unc Jo, we might pit the Americano and Eurobird against French Wine.

Like COS said, it's bad news. The Magic-lan that you like, will not make its way to your hi-fi room. I tried very hard to lost the CD but it is still clinging on lah. Aiseh.....

No hacking of walls for you.

Tonight :

Ding ding....The Battle of the Dragons! Black Diamond Vs Platinum. More than enough hints of what to expect

Gotta spin some LP at Wembley tonight.

Spinning now:



More to come.

Holy cow, it this the classic version of the Rega LP??

How's the sound compare to P1 or P3?

What if I tell u the group that meet up for yam cha in setapak, has CD
collection that cost more than the hifi system, or put it this way the
CD collection cost many times more than the hifi system. So u won't be
out of place..........we are music lovers too!!!

Just to borrow a quote from our neighbour (Uncle Vic).....so are we!!!!!
Hi Mika, last night's session was just listening to the Planar 3 and some records, no comparisons.

Just in:

That metal grille looks very familiar .... Electrostatics come to mind.

Mugen sifoo,

No lah, it looks like your AAApoooggieeeelahhhh or Martin jai?

Welcome to NSRGland sifoo.

mugenfoo wrote:That metal grille looks very familiar .... Electrostatics come to mind.

Correct.



Very tall electrostatic spkrs indeed

That Fri night, we have played with this too :

Htkaki,

You might want to test your KSA-monster first with these speakers before you sell the monster off. I remember them being very demanding on amplifier last time at Tat Chuan and my friend couldn't really get them to open up because he didn't have a 'strong' enough amp to handle them.

WongKN wrote:Htkaki,

You might want to test your KSA-monster first with these speakers before you sell the monster off. I remember them being very demanding on amplifier last time at Tat Chuan and my friend couldn't really get them to open up because he didn't have a 'strong' enough amp to handle them.

I will try it out with the power amp. Anyway, the Martin Logan ain't mine.

Btw, I did try out a pre amp which was also belongs to a friend. I found that it is quite nice and it somehow matched with the power amp that I had. However, I have very limited time to listen to it as I was too busy today.

I guess I can only sit down and listen to it on Tuesday since tomorrow will also be a busy day for me. Wednesday is the most important day of all. I need to complete my 'mission' in order not to fail someone's Queen and his Raya plan. No matter what, I have to get something if cant get everything, which is better than nothing

Someone has more options / choices to buy online already with his new acquisition

Nice colour and numbers. After the system gets into gear, the sound apparently improves with better refinement and becomes more transparent.



Thank you, Mr Owner!!

cyh wrote:

What if I tell u the group that meet up for yam cha in setapak, has CD
collection that cost more than the hifi system, or put it this way the
CD collection cost many times more than the hifi system. So u won't be
out of place..........we are music lovers too!!!

Just to borrow a quote from our neighbour (Uncle Vic).....so are we!!!!!
Hi Mika, last night's session was just listening to the Planar 3 and some records, no comparisons.

The Jacky Cheung LP is quite good. Next gathering spin LPs again. Who is going to sponsor red wine?

Also running in this black dragon :

The Jacky Cheung LP is quite good. Next gathering spin LPs again. Who is going to sponsor red wine?

Dunno lah Max......so many toys to play, so little time. This week need to discuss with rsbn to see if we have anything to do

My cds just came in.......maybe it's country singer week

Already start testing the legend?

Country singer? Taylor Swift kah?

We shall have one session in the Raya week since it is a long holiday for most of us. What you guys think?

I got no problem.....who bringing the satay & ketupat?

Country singer? Taylor Swift kah?

Got this.....

cyh,

I want to buy the Whitesnake album. I think it is a must have album. Playing The Cranberries now. Just for fun. So much of fireworks!!

And also this one...

Already start testing the legend?

Oooooh! The legend kah? Enjoying it now with this

Yea c_o_s, will try to get this one. At least your're having fireworks...some have to make do with sparklers!

[/quote]Dunno lah Max......so many toys to play, so little time. This week need to discuss with rsbn to see if we have anything to do [/quote]



If you do not feel bored, this fella will visit Old Trafford (with your permision) or Madison Square Garden (if Mr. JBL rings) this Friday:lol:

Zzzzz! Good Night!

cyh wrote:

Country singer? Taylor Swift kah?

Got this.....

Ah... reminds me I need to get this. Cannot find it on any format of vinyl so I probably have to get the CD.

Ah... reminds me I need to get this. Cannot find it on any format of vinyl so I probably have to get the CD.

Yea Wong,
pity some of the newer country artises do not release their albums on vinyl. Am still looking forward to Mary Chapin Carpenter, Wynonna, the Chicks etc on vinyl.

If you do not feel bored, this fella will visit Old Trafford (with your
permision) or Madison Square Garden (if Mr. JBL rings) this Friday:lol:

Manchester or New York is ok with me . Again book early, as places are limited, both venues are quite small. Health warning- this week's session may cause mild heart palpitations, hand tremours etc. Please take appropriate medication 2 hours before concert

Quite right to name it as The Theater at Madison Square Garden since the seats are between 2,000 and 5,600 for concerts. Who is going for the 'HOT' seat? Remember to take photos since I won't be joining.

Btw, I just got another new toy yesterday; Z-A-N (not in alphabetical order).

Btw, I just got another new toy yesterday; Z-A-N (not in alphabetical order).

Is it silver?

Yes, bingo.

Up next will be those bulbs from US. Then we can do a 3 way fight again; US vs Italy vs England.

Today, I learned something new; IBM.

Looks like there are lotsa toys to play with during the Raya holidays. What's the plan for Friday nite? Old trafford ka?

COS,
I don't understand. I tot you will be with Max ? Why are you talking about the Raya holidays menu ?

WongKN wrote:COS,
I don't understand. I tot you will be with Max ? Why are you talking about the Raya holidays menu ?

Next week, Thursday onwards still ok mah. We can set the stage at Wembley too. Want to join?

Ah, you mean one week only is it ?
Next week I am not taking leave. If day time can la. But still have to see how first.

No worries. Will keep you posted. We have yet to set the date and time.



Just had a very brief listening session with the Martin Logan. Need time to set up and fine tune the position. Very anxious to listen to the ML when driven by something more powerful. Should have great potential. There is also a nice pre-amp standing by.