Author: Stephen Yan

2016 GUANGZHOU AV FAIR SHOW REPORT

December 21, 2016

Spread over two venues situated side by side (viz the Dong Fang Hotel and the China Hotel Marriott), this year’s Guangzhou AV Fair was held from the 18th to 20th November 2016 and promised to [Read More]

Singapore International Sound and Sight Exhibition 2016

December 15, 2016

Fifteen years ago, when our esteemed publisher Clement Perry was still a young man, eager to spread his wings and see the world, he visited Singapore and wrote an article in 2 parts covering the [Read More]

Pre Audio ASP-1501 Turntable

November 10, 2016

  Ever since the advent of the vinyl record, mankind has been grappling with the problem of how to play this piece of black plastic with the most fidelity to the original recorded sound. Womankind, [Read More]

JICO RECORD BRUSH SYSTEM

November 10, 2016

  Over the last year or so, I have seen much ink spilled over the phenomenon of the so-called “vinyl revival.” Even the venerable British publication, Gramophone, that bastion of classical music journalism since 1923, [Read More]

CHINON IPHONE DOCK

August 12, 2015

Those of you with an iPhone, forgetting for a moment that it was meant primarily as a telephone, may have come across times when you wished you were able to just use the phone as [Read More]

HIGH FIDELITY CT-1 ULTIMATE REFERENCE PHONO CABLE

July 21, 2015

  “Only twice in my life have I recorded a Bach suite. In both cases, I cannot forgive myself – I acted rashly. Now, I must pluck up courage and record all the Bach suites…” [Read More]

THE AUDIO NOTE P1 SE

June 3, 2015

My first introduction to single-ended tubed amplifiers came via the auspices of an Audio Note Kit One using a pair of 300B tubes. It was, at that time (which was 1995 to be precise) my [Read More]

AER LP ENERGIZER

May 13, 2015

    To tell you the truth, I really did not want to like the AER LP Energizer. Why? Because, apart from anything else, it will be an additional step in an already long and [Read More]

KING KONG PLATFORM & DC-1 DYNAMIC CONTROLLER

June 10, 2014

MAGICAL STUFF A plethora of audio companies have sprung up recently in the East, offering all kinds of weird and wonderful contraptions aimed at making your stereo rig perform even better than when you bought [Read More]

Frank Acoustics PB-15000Ws Power Bank Storage

February 16, 2014

“Inductance is our friend”. A motto, perhaps, that should be framed and nailed to the wall of every audiophile in the world. Allow me to explain. Every sound that emanates from our loudspeakers, we are [Read More]

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