When You Wish Upon A(udio) Star
Posted: Mon May 05, 2008 8:31 am
Yesterday, I was fortunate to visit the listening domain of WS moderator/member AudioStar who is the ever hospitable host. I understand that he had installed a pair of newly custom-built speakers by Lin Gomez and also new 'diffuser/absorber panels made by Vicente Lim that surrounds 3 sides of his music room walls.
It was a great and enjoyable day, and thanks for the sumptuous lunch prepared by Mr. and Mrs Audiostar. The whole afternoon was a great rocking musical event, to say the least.
The new-look set-up of Audiostar: (back-end)
My memory is not that great anymore with regards to model numbers but all I know is that the speakers are composed of
JBL professional drivers and an Aurum Cantus super-tweeter.
The amps are 3 pairs of Cayin monoblocks. Two of the mono's use 845 tubes among others. As for the crossover functions, maybe Audiostar can enlighten us on this as I get lost somehow with these things.
Right side speakers with the room treatment panels:
To the Left: (with due apologies to Beyonce)
Closer look of the amps:
The Front End:
The Luxman PD444 DD table, SME 309 and ZYX cartridge:
The killer LPs on the 'Sahig':
The 'Crowd':
L-R: Vicente Lim, Robert Tan, Audiostar, Halls, Voltraizer
The 'Expanded Crowd':
RT showing some 'arm' to Audiostar:
Audiostar holding the 'arm', and FR 64FX: (Future 'arm'?)
Audiostar with his 'room treatment designer' Vicente Lim:
Photo above shows how big the speakers are. And with
the look of Audiostar, I for one can clearly see the guy is happy. Thanks again, Val.
It was a great and enjoyable day, and thanks for the sumptuous lunch prepared by Mr. and Mrs Audiostar. The whole afternoon was a great rocking musical event, to say the least.
The new-look set-up of Audiostar: (back-end)
My memory is not that great anymore with regards to model numbers but all I know is that the speakers are composed of
JBL professional drivers and an Aurum Cantus super-tweeter.
The amps are 3 pairs of Cayin monoblocks. Two of the mono's use 845 tubes among others. As for the crossover functions, maybe Audiostar can enlighten us on this as I get lost somehow with these things.
Right side speakers with the room treatment panels:
To the Left: (with due apologies to Beyonce)
Closer look of the amps:
The Front End:
The Luxman PD444 DD table, SME 309 and ZYX cartridge:
The killer LPs on the 'Sahig':
The 'Crowd':
L-R: Vicente Lim, Robert Tan, Audiostar, Halls, Voltraizer
The 'Expanded Crowd':
RT showing some 'arm' to Audiostar:
Audiostar holding the 'arm', and FR 64FX: (Future 'arm'?)
Audiostar with his 'room treatment designer' Vicente Lim:
Photo above shows how big the speakers are. And with
the look of Audiostar, I for one can clearly see the guy is happy. Thanks again, Val.