a dissection of how electricity impacts your hifi (part 2)

finally, back to blogging. it turned out that Blogger is having some conflicts with IE. i have decided to dump IE and go for FIREFOX instead. many of my anti-microsoft friends swear by FIREFOX. i am a late convert.

while i am still waiting for a long-term solution on my electricity problems, i have developed some listening habits. i have become a morning audiophile! night-time listening is sporadic, depending on how good the sound is, using my now-indispensable reference cd (fong sum lui, the cantopop audiophile cd i recommended in av xpress). within about 20 seconds, i could tell if the electricity is great on the night. if it is not, i would just switch the system off and do other things. such is the agony of being a perfectionist audiophile!

at the same time, i am also drawing a daily chart on the performance of my system at night. this chart will be useful for me to see if there is a pattern or trend. if i find that sunday nights are persistently bad then i won't waste my time to listen to my system on sunday nights.

also, i seldom entertain guests at night now, preferring them to come in the morning or early afternoon.

a check with local dealers A&L (ps audio power plant premier) and tong lee (exact power) was responded with the expected answer "out of stock at the moment". wah chai (the A&L manager) told me that for ppp, demand has exceeded supply and ps audio can't even cope with the worldwide demand.

meanwhile, ah chee of audio art, asked me to try the locally-made powertran, an isolation transformer and a voltage regulator, the brainchild of veteran audiophile wong kok wah. i am quite sceptical but i will get one 8KVa unit to try it out when i go back to ipoh the next time.

for now, i will remain a morning audiophile!