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Stereopal Home Visit: Kayson Sept 6, 2005

Small but great sounding, Aurum Cantus speakers……...

Kayson is dear friend of mine. He has relatives who are in the Audio Industry, which makes it easy for him to have access to a good number of audio equipments.

Kayson has a dedicated audio room in his main floor. The room isn’t large at all by audio standards, but the sound staging I heard in his tiny room is beyond my expectations for a room this size.

He enjoys a variety of music from Jazz to Classical. Two of his favorite titles are: TIME OUT TAKE FIVE with Dave Brubeck, and 12 Golden Oldies by Chinese singer Chin Tsai (Choi Kum)

System Components:

CD Player: Huayun CD 1.6

D/A Converter: Huayun DAC-1 with dual Burr Brown PCM63 Chips

Preamp: E-Sound ES-300II

Power Amp 1: E-Sound ES-30 Solid State 100W

Power Amp 2: JAS Audio Array 2.1 Power Amplifier with 845 & 300B Tubes

Power Amp 3: Ming-Da MC-34A with EL34 Tubes

Spkr Cable: ZION Pure Silver Speaker Cable

Interconnect: ZION Pure Silver Interconnect

Conditioner: G&W TD-05D

Speaker: Aurum Cantus Leisure 2SE

Kayson’s Comments:

General:

I believe the strength of my system lies with its level of detail and clarity. My system has both attributes and at the same time, it is not bright sounding. This is very difficult to achieve. Although I have heard some people have suggested a tad of brightness, perhaps this could be attributed to the silver cables which I am using.

I have a relatively small room so I cannot use larger speakers. The down side to this is that my system tend to be a little bass shy.

Future Changes:

Perhaps I may upgrade to an SACD player.

Tweaks:

I have played around with a number of room acoustic treatments. My have a sound dispersion panel behind by cabinet which used for reducing standing waves. Various panels and foam boards also helps.