THE ORRONOCO AUDIO DIY

For months I'm playing a lot with  this  tiny amplifier. It is 12 volt capable, low watt, yet ultra efficient power amplifier that very suitable for car audio application. It producing high quality audio with flea watt that most any mid-range or full-range speakers can accept. Previously, this auto power-on amplifier is controlled by using a mechanical relay. It is okay and not any single problem occurs. But to make it less mechanical things, I built the simple solid state relay in it.

While for most of home audio people really know well that the car is the worst place for audio, thus listening music in car is unavoidable. The situation for my daily driving activity is about at least 2 hours minimum per day. Compare how much I spending time while listening music at home it quite similar. But when I am stuck in traffic jam, it can double the time. So, you will never want to accompany in the traffic with a bad audio system on car don't you?

My previous post about buying the Vifa drivers from online store  here , you will notice that I also bought several items including the mini sub-woofer. It is Tang Band W3-1876S, a 3 inch sub-woofer for about $34. How it's perform compare to larger diameter sub? I will find it out!

I mostly build my own audio connector and I always using the Canare cable. They are cheap, high quality and overall sound for me is natural and minimum in sound coloration. About a month ago, my friend come to my house and we have a little chat about audio cables. He offering me to test this cable and review about it, and I replied, why not?!

It is been a long time I using Vifa TG9 here  on my living room. I personally like the character of this driver playing simple music. The TG9 is a bamboo cone with 4 ohm impedance, while this TC9 is a paper cone with 8 ohm impedance.

The Sony Playstation SCPH-1002 is become my main CD player for almost 10 years. Sadly but truth, I cannot find any audio source on the range of US$99 that could match the sound quality to this SCPH-1002. The optical kit of this SCPH-1002 is KSM-440ACM which is become problematic by ages especially when reading the CD's. The optical kit replacement from China is not a good solution. They are not so smooth in CD's playback. Other solution is using others original KSM optical from Playstation scrap which is the best but not an easy solution. The last solution I could bear is finding the complete unit model SCPH-5500 which originally have improved on optical placement and still using the same DAC chip like the SCPH-1002.

This post is an introduction to the hi-end audio. Average people will stare with straight face when they looking at the price tag of this expensive audio system. This hi-end audio brands has small popularity but the price are ultimately higher than most commercial brand, let's say like the Sony, Technics, Denon, or Pioneer.  Although some of those popular commercial audio brands also have their hi-end audio line up, for example the Pioneer have the ELITE series, Sony has the ES series, and Technics has the Esoteric,  but most of their products are targeting to average consumer market. The hi-end audio brands are nowhere heard from those average consumer. The brands such as Audio Note, Mark Levinson, Krell, Pass Labs, which intended in hi-end audio are definitely they never heard about them.