I got my first integrated amp after I ROD circa ’93 a nice little Creek 4040 s3 still functioning. Tonight I unboxed to find the good old UK handy works….the transformer , chassis signed by one Barbara on 18th October 1991
Month: October 2015
Sunday learnings
Last night, the Mark Levinson preamp was driving me crazy with a high pitch tone (faint but audible) near the transformer side. The noise did not comes from the speakers and after much troubleshooting of powering down all other equipment as well re-positioning did not helps. So, who you gonna call?
FB message William and he immediately told me it might be the LED display causing the high pitched. It’s a DUH-moment, why didnt i think of that! I should have disable the display and voila, no noise!
Another learning from re-positioning the rack to right corner of the room is that is acts like a low pass cut-off filter. It was too much drop of bass for my liking but this confirm that i can use bass trap for bass management.
Marantz CD player do not like to be stack on the pre-amp. It resulted in slight treble harshness.
That is all i spent the day learning audio on the hands-on way, physically.
Hifi Magazine
Stereo Sound audio magazine remains the de facto audiophile magazine for me. It maintains high editorial standard, great photography and is not just about advertisements. Good reference to the taste of the Japanese market. Published in Japanese 4 times per year and i only manage to get the Chinese translated edition when I travel to Zhuhai.
Friday afternoon at Audiosound
Spend the Friday over at Audiosound with William. The studio is moving along with many state of the art and desirable equipment.
Audionet Friday
Awesome power and magically musical. 
So much lights in the Audionet Preamp leading the way to music nirvana !
