Hifi Setup...

Finally a little update... been busy trying to tidy up my room and arranging my stuff... Weekend is too short la... Anyway the first pic below shows my hifi and video setup... Ya, my new rack and turntable!!! :) Top, my turntable, 2nd level, my amp, 3rd cd player and lastly my ps2 and pc occupies the bottom rack...

The 2 gray patches behind the speakers are the sound absorbers, had got some corner buster set up too which is not shown... Sigh still abit messy will try to tidy up soon...
Another view of my setup...

Firstly introducing my hifi rack which i had waited for 1 and a half months for its arrival... Special order, dark stain thats why it too so long to come hehe... I purposely match the dark stain with the chrome aluminum bars which made it looked good and outstanding hehe... Tada! Finite Elemete Pagode! Which is made in Germany...
Now my turntable from Acoustic Signature, Final Tool MKII with Herbie's Turntable Mat (circle white and black in colour) and some vinyl accessories at the side... This turntable weighs a ton! About 28kg total... heavy... Wondered how the rack tahan its weight...
Another view of the TT...
Now next Lyra Phono Cartridge, Dorian, stunning red in colour with protection on... Mounted on a SME 309 tonearm which is blurred at the background... My Dorian with out protection... :)
My Dorian at work!!! Picking out signals from the grooves... Think it was Jazz at the Pawnshop LP... The stylus is so thin so fragile... breaking it will cost another few hundred bucks (please don't!)... The power supply for the TT motor (left) and Dynavector P-75 mkII phono stage (right) at the side of the rack on a solid wood chopping board...
My Lavardin IT integrated amp which i had introduced in my previous post sitting nicely on the rack... :)
My Vimark CD player... Seldom will i touch this new guy since i got my TT, will use this player when i wanna listen to new cantonese pop songs which are seldom available on vinyl... but i still needa find time to run in... hehe...
Thats all for my new "toys"... As a newbie audiophile will like to recommend some vinyls... First up Jazz at the Pawnshop, ya old audiophiles will find this album boring but i had listen to it upteen times on cd and now on vinyl, everything sounded more 3D and life like...
Another album which cannot be missed... Hope by Hugh Masekela... Wonderful recording, the drums are so far the best i heard from my limited vinyl collection and of course the way he sang that song "STIMELA" was so filled with emotions... Got touched by him... Vinyls are fun but very poisonous so will try to avoid going to Adephi that frequently till i have financially recovered... hehe...

Short Audiophile Experience (Just 2 months!) and my rack arrived (finally!)...

Wooo... after months of listening... I finally can tell whats good and whats bad within a system...

Well was kinda suan by my mentor, telling me that the MD staff was hinting me that i shud in fact just get the 1k amplifier (in short amp) rather than my current amp because someone traded in my current amp for this 1k amp... I was kinda affected did i really overspend on something that is totally not worth it!?

Hmmm... todae i finally had the chance to listen to the 1k amplifier which MD was selling (well no offense..) while i was there to check out my rack (yesh! finally it had arrived, but lets get back to the amp topic first...) and finally i could tell that well my system was a whole lot better confidently hahaha... Well it was worth it, i told myself (phew... )

Sitting down, initial thoughts the music sounded pleasing... but after listening for a while i could tell that the resolution coming from that amplifier was kinda blur, i could roughly hear where the intruments were coming from but the sound was smudge (yeah like ink...) Oh Yeah! My listening had improved and i am really happy with it hehe...

Yah one thing was that the guy traded in the current amp i was having was that the 1k amp was a better match for that that pair of speakers he bought which was on display but still the resolution for tat 1k amp was not that good (ya sad to say)...

Anyway... took half a day off to check out my rack at MD, CF was so stressful haha, too much things to clear after a rather "long vacation", well he was off to KL for a seminar and some training sessions for a week. My rack had finally arrived! The one and a half month wait was worth it... So nicely stained, which blends kinda well with my speakers...

As CF opened up the box... whoa could smell the stain haha... he was kinda stressed up because the owner (which is me) was standing beside him setting up the rack, the assembly was a bit tough, as a mistake would have the chrome metal bar at the side scratched! Asked me to take a walk outside which i didn't haha... Anyway everything was fitted nicely... :)

Besides the rack, i had also went down to secure a deal on the TT and lots of LPs... YEAH! I HAD FINALLY JOINED THE DARK SIDE!!! haha... Shessshhh... he wanted me to bring back the LPs but the player would come only next tues! What a torture!... Can see but cannot play... Took a free ride home with the delivery man, was kinda worried the vehicle bumping would spoil my rack... but it reached my place safely and i helped the delivery man carry my rack up to my place...

Straight away i was into action, took out all the cables from the amp and speakers and try to shift the current console outta my room... Within 1 hour i managed to move the console out and fix up the echo busters absorbers behind the speakers (acoustic products... ) Had dinner at aunt's place and came back to shift my amp and cd player to their new "house"...

Sheesshhh getting abit lorso... anyway everything is in place liao will take a photo soon hehe... Happiness was shortlived as i found out my computer's mobo is dead... grr... gotta spend some moni to get it replaced... grr...