ISSE continued...

i wont be going room by room.... cos if i do that, i would have to forgo my sleep haha

might be more straightforward if i just touch on the equipment that caught my attention.......

henry audio: featuring wooden tuning cones and wooden super tweeters..... the guy was trying to demo the efficacy of his tweaks..... but since my fren and i were not in the sweet spot, we cant tell any difference..... his cables also look pretty interesting ....there are many wires terminated with crocodile clips and connected here and there until i was also confused...... other unorthodox items i saw was a audiolab equipment without its knobs...... haha very chim

LG: good prices for these commercial LCD panels...... a 42 inch full HD LCD TV at S$3299... plus S$500 NTUC voucher.......... making it a very affordable HDTV..... effective price is less than S$3k...... i think that's a very good offer...

first time ultralinear is here, IIRC........... they are having an offer at S$15k for krell dvd player, int amp and isophon speakers..... out of the range of my wallet.... but good music they are making..... i didnt stay long enough to appreciate more.....

audionote: the best i have heard from the avantgarde...... why is that so? no idea..... the remiyo front end is quite a visual spectacle................ in the other room, the totem are pretty impressive too....

x audio: the vivid loudspeaker sounded pretty good here...... so are the usher be-718..... i have heard the 718 at their bukit timah showroom as well as at audio basic..... this is a pair of very high quality loudspeakers..... the cabinet, the veneer, binding posts, drivers are all top-notch..... not forgetting the beryllium tweeters too...... have a listen to these babies...... they may be bookshelf speakers but they ROCK.. !!!

jay audio: they are playing the jm lab electra 1027be...... good loudspeakers but were being played at too high a volume.... what a waste..... i have heard the speakers perform better at asia sound..... when driven by canary audio 80 wpc tube amp......

dynaudio: a special pair of loudspeakers were in this room....the dynaudio sapphire............. very good very good with plinius electronics......bass was deep and solid.......... the veneer and cabinet work are the usual high standards u expect from the danes...... didnt ask how much haha ....

merdeka: this room is all about lelong and cheap sale.... we were greeted with big signs showing 50% off........... and indeed most things inside are 50% off.......... extreme good deals are the psb speakers...... the platinum range is their flagship model, all at 50%...... good value is the psb image series..... NAD amps, ATI amps, parasound amps all at half price...... dun miss this if u like their stuff.....

monsoon: good deals for oppo dvd players........ at S$400+ u can get a machine capable of sacd playback and dvd upscaling to 1080p..... they also showed the new B&W speakers.....

i think that's all.............. the rest not so interesting....

this is also a good time for anyone who is in the market for a HD projector..... deals for mitsubishi at 4999 (with free sony ps3)........... optoma at 4999....... benq at 7999.......