On Saturday, I visited all the rooms on the 12th floor and some on the 9th floor. There were some surprising good-sounding systems such as the Spendor speakers and the Gryphon system.
Here are some photos of today’s AV adventure:
Picture quality of the JV Concept AV demo using the JVC DLA-X5500 projector.
Todd Garfinkle, the founder and recording engineer of MA Recordings, selling his works at the show.
This pair of Spendor SP200 speakers sounded surprisingly good in Acoustic Arts’ room.
Singer Celist Chow from pop pop factory was at New Wave Records’ room to autograph her CDs and meet her fans.
The XTZ Atmos AV system in Living Audio’s room.
Picture quality of the 4K movie on the Samsung 4K TV in Living Audio’s room.
Micromega is making a comeback via WTL Trading.
Elac’s rebadged Audio Alchemy products have reached Malaysia.
WTL Trading’s all-Gryphon system sounded quite good.
Popular British brand Cambridge is making a comeback via Perfect Hi-Fi.
Atmos speaker from KEF.
Sonus Faber Amati Tradition speakers were launched in Perfect Hi-Fi’s room.
Nordost’s QKORE grounding devices were also launched.
Exciting things are happening in the world of music streaming. After too many years of only MP3 quality music files, audiophiles will soon be getting CD-quality files from Spotify and (most probably) Apple Music as well.
The new version of the best-seller iFi ZEN DAC was launched just a few days ago and is now on sale at E1 Personal Audio in Sungei Wang Plaza, Kuala Lumpur.
Even today, many audiophiles still prefer the sound quality of R2R DACs compared with Delta-Sigma types. They claim that R2R DACs sound smoother and more like analogue. Audio-GD from China makes some R2R DACs which have received quite good reviews. All Audio-GD products are designed and developed under the guidance of He Qinghua, the 'First Prize Winner' of the National Semiconductor (USA) Audio Design Contest.
