2016 - Thank You For The Journey

What a journey it has been for me in both, HiFi and Home Theater. There were a number hifi equipment that came through my door. Some stayed on, some left. Here are some short write ups of the journey.

WHAT WENT OUT FROM 2 CHANNEL HIFI

1. Musical Fidelity M1 CDT
2. Musical Fidelity M1 PWR power amp
3. Musical Fidelity M1 CLiC streamer
4. GL78 Lenco TT
5. Bryston BHA-1 headphone amp
6. Alessandro Grado MS Pro headphone
7. Onkyo cassette Deck
8. Dell Windows Laptop and Samsung UA55HU8000 TV for CAS
9. Full Siltech Classic Anniversary 330L cable, IC, power cable and digital cable
10. Belkin PF50

WHAT REMAINED AND ADDED TO 2 CHANNEL HIFI

1. Musical Fidelity M6i integrated amp
2. ProAc Response D18 speakers
3. Musical Fidelity M6 DAC
4. Musical Fidelity M1 ViNL phono stage
5. Clearaudio Concept TT (until buyer collects)
6. Lenco L78 TT (added)
7. SONY HAP Z1ES HDD Hi Res player (added)
8. Oppo HA-1 DAC/Preamp/headphone amp (added)
9. Beyerdynamic T1 Tesla headphones
10. SONY MDS JA20ES minidisk player
11. Shunyata Dark Field cable elevators
12. Vermouth Audio Black Pearl speaker cable (added)
13. Frank powerbank (added)
14. Converted all plugs to US receptacle and upgraded ELCB and MCB (added) 
15. TAOC hifi rack (added)
16. Musical Fidelity KW550 supercharger mono blocks (under consideration)

 

WHAT WENT OUT FROM MY HOME THEATE

1. OPPO 95EU BDP Player
2. Yamaha RXV2067 AV receiver
3. Wharfedale Bipolar rear speakers
4. Darbe Darblet DVP5000

WHAT REMAINED AND ADDED TO MY HOME THEATER

1. OPPO UDP 203 4K UHD PLAYER (added)
2. Samsung UBDK8500 4K UHD PLAYER (added)
3. Denon X6200W AV receiver (added)
4. SVS Prime Satellite rear speakers (added)
5. SVS Prime Elevation speakers for ATMOS/DTS:X (added)
6. SVS NSD12 subwoofer
7. PMC twenty 23 front speakers
8. PMC twenty C centre speaker
9. Apple TV
10. ASTRO B.Yond PVR
11. Samsung UA65HU9000 65" UHD Curve TV

.......... and last but not least....my 1 minute fame:

A big thank you to the following in no particular order:

1. Sujesh and the whole Audiofi.net and HiFi4sale crew
2. Dick Tan, Willy Low, Lam SF and the whole AV2day.com and 3dotevent crew
3. Victor Pheh of HiFi Creations for Kronos, Skogrand, Vermouth, Arpeggio poison
4. Max Loh and Yoon Tat of Maxx Audio for Prime Elevation and Satellite and Denon poison
5. Steve Chua of CMY for my Mission, Oppo UDP 203 and cabling poison
6. James Tan and Tony Low for the full Bryston suite treatment and PMC poison
7. David Kestez of Selective HiFi and Yoon of Audio Art for Heco and Soul Note poison
8. Adrian Lee of Oppo Digital Malaysia for Oppo Sonica and UDP 203 poison
9. Tony Lee fo LTB Enterprise for continuous Musical Fidelity Posion
10. J&K Audio for the 3io Blackbox poison
11. Spin Doctor Mastan for my second Lenco L78 and Belden
12. Greg and KP Choong for APS speaker stand poison
13. Foo Lek Choong for Melco Media player poison
14. SpH for the SSS mat
15. Frank Voon for the powerbank
16. Dato Zaharul Anuar of Dream Studio and King Sezali for rock kapak LP poison
17. MatYeo for MatYeoX cable poison
18. Mizzal Yusof for Gotham poison
19. Shaiful Anuar for HiFi BBQ and review sidekick
20. Al HiFidelitiya group members for LP poison
21. What Are You Listening To Right Now members for sharing the music
22. Komuniti Blu Ray Disc Malaysia members for BD and 4K UHD poison
23. Radzi of THR, Nick Mun of HGR, Hafeez of Crossroad Records, El Pee of LP Freakstore, Khairul Fahmi of Embrace, Rock Corner for all the LP poison
24. Samsung
25. JVC
26. Oppo
27. Sony
28. SVS
29. Bryston
30. PMC
31. ....and all the readers...