Lyra Helicon MC cartridge

This is a piece of gem, the Helicon is a hi definition MC cartridge with low output 0,35mv, it is not just detail, it is having wide response characteristics, and is true reproduction of the music codes under the deep groove on your vinyl LP. This is a like new cartridge seldom use.

HK Snob
Hi Fi Fever

Ps, I had just installed on my LP12, Preliminary Listening to it is Clear, quiet and dynamic , very Real! The channel separation is very good, image is sharp, wider response than you could imagine!
This is an awesome cartridge!

Teac Portable Audio System SR100-iA-B

I bought this new system for background music when I work or blogging at night.

It plays with Aux, MP3, your iPhone, a built in CD with solid 50W x2 output.

Music is punching and powerful!

I put a Holfi Magician to make a more focus vocal.

HK Snob

A Cost Effective Audio System for Mini Living Room of Hong Kong

A Cost Effective System for Mini Living Room of HK


This is a Set-up of ALL Tubes Amplifier, an Integrated Amplifier originated from Mini 1998.

Separated Power supply with a Cordial power transformer, linked into the main chassis consists of

Pre-signal Amplifying handled by Twin Triodes 12AX7 and the other Triode will drive the EL84 push Pull circuitry. The total Output is about 12W per Channel.

To give you a better sweet music, all we need to change the Coupler Capacitor to MIT Cap. If you have a bit more budget, Change the Pre-amplifier Tube to Telefunken 12AX7 and Output EL84 to Mullard or Telefunken.

You can drive a Roger LS3/5A 11 Ohm white belly woofer.

A Nice CD Player like Marantz would do perfectly matching the system. The White colour gives you North Scandinavian Snob Winter.. the growing red tube will warm your heart with the music you like…

The total space it takes could give no excuse to any size of HK Living room not to have it.

If your budget is not allowed to go for Roger LS3/5A HKD$15,000, you can consider Audio Space Loudspeaker which is about HKD$3,600.

The Amplifier is about HKD$4,800.


What is the most important thing is Surprise of such a mini system could possibly deliver solid mellow warm music that only HKD$30,000 transistor system could possibly achieve.



HK Snob

Sham Shui Po Snob

Ap Liu Street Snob

Turntable, Tone-Arm, Cartridge and Set-up

Many people are surprised to hear that there are people who still listen to records. They are even more surprised to hear that it is still possible to buy new records. They do, and it is, and some of us still think that a nice good record, played on a well-set-up, high-quality 'table would sound much better than even the best-produced CDs played on the finest player. This is particularly true as regards older recordings especially those from the 50’s and 60s. The sound of a record is simply much more musical than that of a CD. To my ear, a violin usually sounds more like a violin when reproduced by vinyl; cymbals, in particular Enoch Light's first Command release, Persuasive Percussion performed by Terry Snyder and the All Stars and released in 1959 by Command Records (run by Enoch Light) sounds much more realistic. Even more dramatic differences accompany the spatial aspects of a recording.


There are still some who think that vinylphiles are crazy, victims of wishful thinking, or what have you: One can only invite the skeptic to listen for himself. Anyway, many people does not think that he is worth going for a trial audition!

A 'turntable' consists of three parts: The turntable rotor, whose job it is to spin the record, at the prescribed speed; a tone-arm, where the cartridge is mounted, and whose job it is to hold it as steadily as possible over the groove of the record.

And the cartridge itself, which contains the stylus, or needle, and the electronics which convert the mechanical energy, created by the groove of the record, into an electrical signal, which can be sent to the phono pre-amp.

All of these parts are crucial. It is easy to think that the most important part is the cartridge: After all, that's where the sound is coming from. But many people think that the cartridge is the least important part. Not, of course, that it doesn't need to be good: It does; your 'table is not going to sound any better than your cartridge. But the cartridge cannot do its job unless it is held precisely over the groove; it cannot do its job if the tone-arm is having resonant vibrational energy. And it cannot do its job if the 'table itself is transmitting all kinds of vibrations to the stylus through the platter and platter matt, through the record itself, or through the tone-arm. Moreover, many of the most unpleasant colorations one hears in poor turntables are actually caused by fluctuations in the speed at which the record is being played. Such minor variations can make a piano sound harsh and 'brassy', for example. One Audiophile mantra is: Nothing is unimportant. Nowhere is that more true than with turntables.

As important as the 'table itself is how it is set-up, in particular, how the cartridge is set-up. One cannot simply screw a cartridge onto a tone-arm and expect to get good sound: The cartridge has to be aligned properly, so that the stylus meets the groove at the right sort of angle. This cannot be done visually: The tolerances are much too small for that to be possible; it can only be done with the right sort of equipment. A Terlarc OMNIDISC - Test LP Disk/Demo Vinyl set is the complete tool for set-up your turntable, tone-arm and Cartridge alignment.

Enjoy your music through the tiny grooves of your LPs

HK Snob

Audio and Nightclub waitresses

名牌音響就像男人嚮往的中國城和大富豪等等之高級夜總會，你一進去，有很多組的大班（型號）目不睱及，已另閣下眼化瞭亂，加上媽媽生的推介和口才（sales），一號300B，二號KT88都係好嘢等等，然後靚女好快到（試音）五分鐘後小姐啱不啱，可以的話買鍾出街，唔啱又揀個，北姑又白又滑（曙光）唔啱！大爺要鬼妹，有，不過是俄羅斯（Eh）好嘢呀！能飛天潛水，無所不能，如果老闆喜歡洗多啲英德佳麗仲好（貓乸，GEC，德仔），最後都係300b搭曙光膽，好彩虛耗幾千，不幸花柳纏身，不能自拔。

forwarded by a AudioSpace manager.

I agree , the WE300 is your final choice for Hi Fi

Sham Shui Po Snob

Audio Space Show Room

                                  One of The picture shown above is about my System at home!

I visited Audio Space Show room again as I ordered One Mini 1998 for one of our friends,
The place has not chnaged much when I stepped in some  13 years ago. The picture are there on the wall. You can see my Hi Fi system too.
Audio Space has been migarted into international OEM business as the Audio Market for HK is fa too small for them.
The are still named one of the best Audio maker in Asia.
My WE300B piush Pull Power Amplifer was custom built by them 13 years ago..
HK Snob

Marantz 8B

I have using for Audio Space WE300B PP power amplifier for quite sometime, however I have switched using the Marantz 8B again, I still find that the WE300B is more mellow in the mid range, and less bright in the hi frequency range. 8B has a lot more power than WE300B, but the overall performance is to be fair, is more balanced, but yet does not have the sweetness of WE300B, Well let me using it for a longer period of them first as the tubes, capacity, resistor need some hours for run in though the amplifier has been using for many years!

HK Snob

Samsung Launches Wireless Audio with Vacuum Tube Technology

Samsung SA-E750

                                                              Two 12AU7 Vacuum Tubes

Luxman LV-105

Samsung has been running for Digital amplifier since they started the company named with Samsung, and now they announced that they will launched its new premium wire less Audio with Dock that incorporates its vacuum tubes amplifier technology, offering warm and natural harmonious sound quality.

The first of its kind, Samsung makes history with the worlds new dual-docking system compatible for both Samsung GALAXY devices  and Apple iOS via docking and wireless connection. The DA-E750 makes a new age of using Digital and Analogue audio technology. Now more and more people would know that the old technology is no longer classified inferior to the digital technology.

DA-E750  is a new digital amplifier coupled with a vacuum tubes amplified, it would reduces unnecessary harsh sound distortion with its 2.1 channel woven glass fibre speaker and built in 100 Watts subwoofer would push you to the new quality audio experience for music. In HK, the suggested price is HKD$7,990.

Question to me is where the vacuum tubes are from, I believe there is no more vacuum tube factory in Korea, they might buy the vacuum tubes from China.

PS

Luxman was the early supplier to put two vacuum tubes into their hybrid integrated FET integrated amplifier LV-103 back to 1984. 1985, LUXMAN Hybrid Tube Integrated Amplifier LV-105 employs two 6CG7 at the Preamp stage, at that time it was sold Yen119,000.00

HK Snob

PS Samsung Company Profile

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. is a global leader in semiconductor, telecommunication, digital media and digital convergence technologies with 2011 consolidated sales of US$143.1 billion. Employing approximately 206,000 people in 197 offices across 72 countries, the company operates two separate organizations to coordinate its nine independent business units: Digital Media & Communications, comprising Visual Display, Mobile Communications.

HK Snob

Goldmund and Thorens Turntable

Goldmund Ref II Table is $300,000.00

This Goldmund turntable is without doubt every music enthusiasts' including HK Snob’s dream gadget.. The Reference II turntable features a degree of refinement and a number of never-seen-before features. The turntable features a 20kg platter machined to a hundredth of a millimeter, a motor vibration-shielded by 15kg of brass, and teflon-insulated signal-caring electronics. Other specs include cog-free motor with lowest electrical and mechanical noise, liquid-nitrogen-rectified belt, touch controls integrated in the tabletop specially designed new Goldmund T8 straight-line tone arm with total weight of 7 kg. Limited editions of 25 units are sold on sub but only the super-rich will be able to buy it as the price tag of US$300,000. Goldmund produces a maximum of 5 units per year. There are only about 25 on the planet so far. This is somewhat similar design of Thorens Reference or Thorens Prestige, but Thorens price is more friendly though both are from Switerland.Thorenz nowadays produce mid-low end turn table only. whereas Thorens produced one of the best turntables from 60-80s, The famous TD-124 for example, and these Reference series turntables!
HK Snob

World most Expensive Cartridge

The Koetsu Coralstone Platinum Mono has a platinum magnet system, silver-plated copper wiring, and a proprietary stylus shape. It combined "sensational" image specificity and three-dimensionality, even in mono, with "an uncanny physicality and weight" across the entire frequency spectrum. MF: "There's no excuse for the price, except the sound. So get over it." 

This is just a cartridge, who would like to buy with US$15,000.00? My last Cartridge was Clearaudio Golden Finger VC2 Diamond, US$10,000.00.
Now I am using Ortofon Jubilee, sound is not that precise and Dynamic as the Gold finger, but it is a very adaptive cartridge produces clear sound for various type of music. A very duable general puspose Cartridge consider the price. My Jubilee was just about US$1,300.00

HK Snob