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China 2006
Sheng Ya Means Good Listening
China 2006  |  Dec 04, 2006  |  0 comments
Actually, I have no idea what Sheng Ya means, but at the Sheng Ya showroom, I felt right at home. There were audiophiles hanging out, listening, and, of course, yakking when we walked in. The sales guy was really into what he was doing and immediately began playing these interesting looking speakers made by Consonance.
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China 2006
Floobydust Is Also Universal
Wes Phillips  |  Dec 04, 2006  |  1 comments
Down the street, we found a store running an active demo that had these strange devices flanking the loudspeakers. Seated on their own speaker stands, they had thin wires connecting on the positive inputs of both loudpseaker and super tweeter.
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China 2006
Some Things Are the Same All Over
Wes Phillips  |  Dec 04, 2006  |  1 comments
We went to the "audio district" of GuangZhou—in China, all shops of similar character tend to group together, so the audio district is where all the hi-fi shops are. Actually, they're there twice: many store have display showrooms in the central mall and listening rooms ranked along a nearby alley.
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Music In Your Pocket
Wes Phillips  |  Dec 04, 2006  |  1 comments
An audiophile's nightmare?
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China 2006
CT-1 AC Tester
Wes Phillips  |  Dec 03, 2006  |  0 comments
Plug the CT-1 into an outlet and it will measure the THD+N noise carried on your line. You can plug headphones into the output to hear the noise pollution, or you can measure it with a test instrument. The CT-1 will also alert you to DC on your line.
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China 2006
Dussun
Wes Phillips  |  Dec 03, 2006  |  0 comments
Dussun was showing a line of power conditioners (500W, 800W, and 1200W) that offered waveform shaping, regulation, isolation, and DC suppression. Oh yeah, and they offer 85% efficiency. The X-1200 retails for $2500.
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China 2006
W'inner
Wes Phillips  |  Dec 03, 2006  |  0 comments
Zhou Yi of W'inner is kind of a crazy guy—audiophile crazy. His stuff is all big, and so are his aspirations. He really likes class-A, too.
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China 2006
NuForce S-9
Wes Phillips  |  Dec 03, 2006  |  1 comments
NuForce's S-9 was pretty interesting, too. The cabinet is constructed of birch plywood laminations, which creates both the inner and outer profiles. The tweeter is mounted into a fairly deep horn and flanked by the twin midrange/woofers. There's a built-in switchable Zobel filter and an external crossover, which can be purchased as active or passive. Speaker wire is included in the S-9's $5500/pair (USD) price.
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China 2006
Elite Speakers
Wes Phillips  |  Dec 03, 2006  |  3 comments
After my first few days wandering through the show, I began to wonder where all the Chinese speakers were—the relatively normal ones, I mean.
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News
The Same Language
Wes Phillips  |  Dec 03, 2006  |  0 comments
I'm currently attending GuangZhou Hi-Fi 2006 in GuangZhou, China (you can read my China Hi-Fi Tour 2006 blog). The show is a fantastic audio event and everywhere I look, I see products I want—some very similar to mainstream US brands and some exceedingly strange and different. But the audiophiles are familiar: Show me a guy who lights up in the glow of a 300B and I'll show you one of my chosen people.
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