CMY Audio & Visual YES Campaign!

The good folks at CMY Audio & Visual is having a YES(Year End Sale) campaign for packaged systems priced with substantial savings!

Look at the variety of systems on offer! System offer prices starts at RM$2999.00. Now who says hifi needs to be expensive? Also note that most system are literally start me up packages, with very respectable cables thrown in for good measure.


For those whom Santa is very generous with, look at the offers! The sky's the limit.

The package system sale is available at all CMY branches. Don't miss out on this one.

B&W Comes Back To Malaysia. The Experts Group.

B&W speakers makes a come back to these shores. Arcam, Classe and Abbey Road Studio cables came along for a ride. If you're following Hi-Fi Avenue blog, then this is probably old news for you, but for those whom do not know, better late then never.

Abbey Road Studio cables on display.

The Experts Group, based in Singapore, has just opened a new showroom to show case the above audio specialty brands. The showroom, located between the B1 parking basement and Cold Storage supermarket at Jaya One commercial building, is tastefully decorated with minimalist design theme.

B&W I-pod accessories.
The "Lifestyle" home theater sound system featuring the PV-1 sub woofer.
The exclusive demo area for "high end" displays.
The Classe Delta series CDP and pre amp.
The Classe Delta series power amp.

The jewel in the showroom has gotta be the Kenneth Grange(famed British industrial designer) designed B&W Diamond Signature speakers. The demo pair, finished in white and top by a marble tweeter pod, looks absolutely exquisite(I kept thinking to myself, these RM$100K babies are going to be perfect for my audio cave!). The partnering electronics are a stack of Classe Delta CDP, pre and power amps. I do hope the system is better optimised on my next visit as I believed I only heard 20-30% of the system's potential performance.

B&W Diamond Signature, only 1000 pairs will be made, an instant collectible.
A close up of the mid Kevlar driver and diamond tweeter in it's dedicated marble pod.
B&W 804 and 805 S series speakers.
B&W CM series in black, and 6 series floor standers.

B&W CM series book shelf speakers with Arcam "lifestyle" mini hifi.
The latest Arcam FMJ series electronics.
The multi award wining Arcam Solo all in one system.

Almost the full range of B&W speakers are on display, along with Arcam electronics. The showroom is attended by Henry Loh and Sam Chan, both very helpful and friendly guys.

Do pay them a visit, or contact them at: 03-79568989

Feel Like Making Love. Woongsan.

Woongsan simply oozes sex appeal.

Here's probably one of the first commercially available HQCD that you could buy, other than test disc. The sound and recording is superb. The clarity is there, yet never hyped, with outstanding musical details flowing very naturally. None of that digital music medium's artifacts are presented.

Woongsan is Korean, and her backing band is Japanese. She's got good vocal range and can at times hint at those sixties female jazz vocals. Some of the tracks that stands out(for me at least) are:

1) Feel like making love

2) It had to be you

5) Don't cry

7) Don't be that way

13) Yesterday

While most of tracks on this CD are popular Jazz covers, Woongsan wrote two songs which is listed as track 5) and 13) above. I find that she's actually quite good and would prefer her to do more of her own materials then covers. The covers are done in typical Japanese predictable and orderly arrangement. However, musician ship is excellent as to the usual Japanese high standards. Yet most of the other tracks not listed above just feels "tired" arrangement wise.

A promotion poster for a "live" gig in Japan.

With a sexy looking cover photo and a rather "suggestive" title, Feel Like Making love is almost a sure fire hit with the middle age audiophile crowd.

Pop Pop Music, CMY Audio & Visual, And HiFi-Unlimited Presents! Love's Tapestry Master Tape Preview.

HiFi-Unlimited is proud to be associated with the preview event Love's Tapestry, a Pop Pop Music production and the enthusiastic participation of CMY Audio & Visual.

This is a reminder post for the Love's Tapestry preview event.

That Maggielurva(A&R Director of Pop Pop Music) is a real gem of a guy. He has invited us all readers of HiFi-Unlimited to check out his latest audiophile recording, called Love's Tapestry. The source used for the preview is "the" Master CD sent to him by mastering guru non other than Doug Sax.

CMY Audio & Visual has ever so kindly agreed to host the event at their flagship Damansara Utama Branch in Petaling Jaya. Let's hope they will use that awesome Metronome Technologie digital source and the Dynaudio Consequence Ultimate speaker system that I heard a few days ago.

Seats are truly limited and there will be only 2 preview sessions held on Sunday, 6th December 2009. The first preview session is 2pm followed by a 3pm session. Light refreshment and finger treats will be served, courtesy of CMY Audio & Visual.

All whom are interested to attend, please call Chan, tel no:012-2873551 for R.S.V.P.

If you've not reserved a place by now, please do so now as it is only 3 days before the event.

I can't wait already!

It's A Ho! Ho! Ho! December.

Some nice X'mas music to get in the the holidays mood.

Yep, folks! We are drawing the curtains to the year 2009. It's being a financially challenging year for many, but hope fully, most of us can find solace in hifi and music. As this month is full of holidays, even in sunny Malaysia, we at HiFi-Unlimited also take some time off to reflect on the year behind, and what a bountiful year it was, hifi wise. I could not remember a time in my short hifi journey, where there's so many events and new products being brought in to these shores.

As we wind up the year, there will be only two equipment on test this month. We have the following on test this month:

Metronome Technologie CD One T Signature. This new high end arrival has show great sonic promises so far in our auditions at CMY Audio & Visual showrooms. We take this baby home for a spin.

We are still on integrated amps this month, and a tube pedigree one at that, it's the Manley stereo integrated amp with 2 x 40 watts on tap in ultra linear mode.

We may have a few surprises in store if things works our way.

Whilst my digital front is languishing in the store room, awaiting for parts, I've still not able to source a VAM1252, Philips CD Pro mechanism yet, despite some interesting leads. My other musical source, namely the black art of vinyl, has taken a whole new lease of life.

Last but not least, may the new year bring us new hifi ideas and endeavours, and may we all have filling rice bowls for 2010 too!