congratulations...!

yes!

congratulations.....!!

managed to sell my shunyata hydra 6 for a reasonble price......

i may need to get one more pc of acrolink 4030......... with oyaide 004 plugs of cos!!

for sale for sale

i am putting up my shunyata hydra 6 for sale........... why? cos i am thinking of upgrading...!

condition is very good ....... almost pristine i would say........

to enable the new owner to use this immediately, it comes with a shunyata diamondback cable which is terminated with a oyaide 046 plug........ the plug alone is about S$100........



the combo is priced to go at S$1600.........

drop me a note if you are interested...........

thanks...........

recap continued...... oyaide

fri night....after dinner and tv, it's time to get to work......

task no 1......get the right screws to secure the receptacle to the faceplate...... after a few minutes, managed to find the correct washers and screws/nuts ....ok 1st task completed

2nd and very important....turned off the main circuit breaker for the room......... some time ago, i'd arranged for mr soh to rewire an outlet at the circuit breaker to provide a dedicated supply to the room.... my only regret: unable to re-wire a direct path from the circuit breaker to the room as all the wiring are concealed..... a direct supply that would be most ideal..... i would do it if this was my house... :)

next, i removed the original uk wall outlet (gosh was so shocked to see all  the dust and dirt on the inside!), unscrewed all wiring and left them dangling in the air..... so far so good and quite straightforward, red for live, green for earth and blue for N.....

then cut off the 13 amp uk plug at one end of the shunyata diamondback cable......... i'd opened up the uk plug out of curiosity.... oh my god, the innards were of such poor quality ... although the internal wiring was soldered to the contacts and no fuse was used, it was disappointing......  ok it was time to dump the uk plug! then i gently stripped the wire and took note of the grounding wire......

to ensure a good connection, i cleaned all the bare wire ends and contacts with rid-ox (well, whoever designed the can for ridox shd be shot, for THE CONTENTS GUSHES OUT LIKE A FIRE HYDRANT!!!!) ...... put on the oyaide p-046 ..... and clamped all the ends tightly .....

oyaide connectors, although expensive , are so much better than hubell or wattagate equivalents.....



next step: connected all the wires to the r1.... i dun like the solid-core cables that is used for the wall wiring..... dun look good at all and dun inspire confidence at all .......... i did what i could to clean them with ridox..... screwed on the faceplate and connected everything before going downstairs to turn on the power.......

okall done!.... sounded simple but took me some time cos the outer insulation jacket on the shunyata is hard like ARMOUR...!..... very very tough to cut and strip....

i dun wanna repeat what has been said about the r1...... but if u r hesistant about its effectiveness, i recommend u try it...... betcha jaws will drop.....

after one night of "burning in" .....everything is sounding so good....HHHMMMMMMM......

not only more and better defined and deeper bass but also effortless portrayal of musical details.....  nothing was close to sounding etched, bright or forward in presentation ....... i especially like the very refined and expressive high frequencies.....

these japanese really good at what they do..... not cheap but aint gimmicks !!!!!