I really mean it, WTF?
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Now forget all the bad press, lackluster reviews, and general public indifference. Doesn't this make you want to buy a Zune?
The Axion has been found. Maybe it's just me, but when I clicked on the URL and saw Piyare Jain with his hands about a foot apart, "I thought, "That's not so small."
It wasn't the first time I'd been beneath a loudspeaker. The Onkyo D-TK10 Guitar Speaker had been causing me some grief. Though it really is handsome with its freckled mahogany cabinet, curving at the top and around the back to even resemble the sensuous body of a guitar, and the gleaming cottony weave of its 4" woofer offering an unforgettable smile, I had been having trouble coming to terms with its unusual sound. That is, of course, when I could actually hold onto its unusual sound long enough to identify it.
Onkyo states that the D-TK10's cabinet was built by "…
This is Zou Yuan Yuan, managing director of Dussun Electronics Co. Ltd. That's pronounced da-sun, as in "Da sun, boss, da sun!"
He's standing in front of an array of test equipment that stands behind his office desk. It would make John Atkinson green with envy.
Why does the company's managing director have test equipment in his office? "When I left school [as an EE], I went to work for Red Lantern [a large Chinese electronics manufacturer, founded in 1960], designing test equipment. After a year or so, I joined the amplification design team."
Designing test…
"We only do final assembly," Zou said. "I can't afford a larger staff, given Shanghai salaries, so we purchase the component parts from all over—the resistors are European, the circuit boards are the best, and we buy chassis parts from David Zheng at EKTG."
Here an employee is hand-matching individual FETs.
The D9 is Dussun's multichannel integrated amplifier. Actually, the only amps Dussun makes are integrateds.
The D9 is a huge beast. Wonder if Zou knows it's the name of a heavy metal piece of earth moving equipment? Bet he does.
Heatsinks waiting to be attached to their output devices—or is it the other way around?
Modules awaiting attachment to the chassis. "It looks like kits."
"My first integrated was a kit—I built it in middle school."
"Did you build it because you were into music or because you were into electronics?"
"Pretty much the same as now," Zou said. "First I built, then I listened, then I adjusted, then I listened some more."
"And so on?"
"And so on."