Posted on Friday, 22nd December 2006 by Jimmy Auw

Power supply is one of the most important part in your system. Imagine “electricity” as “food” for your system. Good food = good healty = good quality. So, electrical cable is important in you audio system to.

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Posted on Thursday, 21st December 2006 by Jimmy Auw

I heard this song about 8 years ago. I have looked this song for years (at that time, in my country, Internet was a disaster in terms of cost and speed).

Few days ago, I found this song on the Internet (duet with Sam Hui). Very nice song from Leslie Cheung (张国荣) called The Silence is Gold (沉默是金).

I love the song because the meaning is nice, especially for young person like most of us (including me). Read it carefully to understand the meaning of this song. You may also search around the file sharing application (emule or bittorent) or Googling around with keyword “沉默是金 MP3″.

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Posted on Friday, 15th December 2006 by Jimmy Auw

I have chance to mod the Altec MX5021. I think so far MX5021 is one of good candidate to be modded (though I prefer Altec CS21 or 621/641 series, but they have been discontinued).

The target of this mod should fulfill 3 main criterias:
1. Affordable
2. The components should be easy to find
3. Significant result
It’s quite challenging for me, since you know that I don’t (never) expect much from a multimedia based computer (some of them are good, but not good enough for my taste). Anyway, since this is just for fun, so let’s do it.

Here’s the Altec MX5021 system:

This system has a little bit bright sound, metallic, a little bit harsh, not too detail for music, and average mid. I think the subwoofer is for movie (THX Certified) than music. Need to be improved a little bit in the low bass region. I think it’s good enough for most people, but not for me
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Posted on Thursday, 14th December 2006 by Jimmy Auw

This short article was written from my own experience. From what I’ve seen. And from what I’ve been. I’m not a manager nor leader in any company. Just an ordinary employee. So take it as-is.

Understanding the Company
Company is built from the employee. As a trader that will give respect and best service for his/her customer, a company should maintain a good relationship with their employee. Off course, not all of the owner of the company are directly involved in daily basis. So, that’s why we need a “boss” or supervisor, to lead the lower positioned employees.

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Posted on Tuesday, 12th December 2006 by Jimmy Auw

I’m reading The Lenovo Affair. Currently, I’m reading about 12% of the book But I got few “enlightment”.

Success comes from three big things (this is my own opinion):
1. Hardwork
2. Dare to take the risk
3. Luck

You have to get these three in your pocket, if you want to sucess.

Liu Chuanzhi proved himself as not a perfect man in this world, but he managed to compensate his weakness by “string the pearls”.

If you weren’t born as a beautiful, rich, or any gifted things from above, then don’t be a desperate person. You weren’t not as beautiful as the other pearls, but you can look after some perfect pearl and string them together to build a beautiful necklace for your own success. If you don’t have the success, then create it. At least that’s the message that I got today

Not an important thing anyway.

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Posted on Tuesday, 12th December 2006 by Jimmy Auw

So far Edifier is well known as a “value class” speaker maker. Now they’ve just released (at least a sample) of their new speaker product in a higher level, the S2000. Actually, it wasn’t designed as a multimedia speaker, but as a Consumer Electronics. I’ve got chance to hear this one, the sample one

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Posted on Friday, 8th December 2006 by Jimmy Auw

A friend on one of mailing list than I joined ask question about some audio terms. I look for the answer around the Internet, post in on the mailing list and create a copy here. Hope this will help you understand the terms better.

Spectral Balance
Relates to the ability of a speaker system to integrate its direct and reflected sound so that it sounds balanced, smooth, and transparent in a typical listening room. Speed - The apparent rapidity with which a reproducing system responds to steep wavefronts and overall musical pace.

Linearity
Measured from a plot of counts vs. signal over the dynamic range and is expressed as a percentage deviation from a straight line fit.

Ambience
As a general audio term, ambience is the background-sound quality of a listening room, surround processor, and/or recording. The ambience of a recording is what gives it space and a sense of realism. It is the sound of the recording studio itself. The recording engineer often synthetically adds ambience if the recording environment was not enough to do the job naturally.

Tonal Acuracy/Balance
Tonal balance is the art of achieving a balance or neutrality of volume between tones. If one tone or frequency is louder, softer, more apparent than another tone, then you do not have accurate tonal balance.

Pitch
In music, pitch is the perception of the frequency of a note. For example, the A above middle C is nowadays set at (often written as “A = 440 Hz”, and known as concert pitch), although this has not always been the case (see #Historical pitch standards). Pitch is often cited as one of the fundamental aspects of music.

Timbre
The character or quality of a sound that distinguishes one instrument, voice, or other sound source from another.

Grainy
The moderate texturing of reproduced sound. The sonic equivalent of noticeable grain appearing in a photograph.

Airy
Having little or no perceptible weight; so light as to resemble air; “airy gauze curtains”.

Overhang
The continuation of a signal at the output of a device or mixer after the original input signal has faded or to hang across or beyond, as on a building.

Decay
A gradual decrease; as of stored charge or current.

Transient
Any of the non-sustaining, non-periodic frequency components of a sound, usually of brief duration and higher amplitude than the sustaining components, and occurring near the onset of the sound (attack transients).

Sibilance
Sound systems with excessive treble response will over-emphasize the “s” or “ch” sounds and produce a hissing sound.

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Posted on Saturday, 2nd December 2006 by Jimmy Auw

Artist: Susan Wong Chui Shan
Album: I Wish You Love
Publisher: Rock In Music
Recording Technology: N/A

About this album:
This is her second album. In this album, Susan has learned how to outfit better She has a better photograph in the front cover. Also, you can find her photographs inside the CD. I bought this CD in 19 September 2003, around 4 months after her first album.

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Posted on Saturday, 2nd December 2006 by Jimmy Auw

Artist: Susan Wong Chui Shan
Album: Close To You (1st album)
Publisher: Rock In Music
Recording Technology: N/A

About this album:
No one knows Susan Wong (Wong Chui Shan) before. Until she released her first album (this one). I bought this CD on 16 May 2003 (hey I kept the invoice on every CD that I bought).

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