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How to play high resolution audio inside car

Zhe Xia — Wed, 21 Oct 2020 15:25:26 +0800

Looks like only top models are able to play Flac High-Res audio?
example: Alphine iLX-F309E cost about RM4880 or iLX-702D cost RM3890.
Are the other lower cost brand/model Car Media Player able to play Flac High-Res audio?

Which famous brand come with class-T or class-D

Zhe Xia — Sat, 26 Sep 2020 23:55:01 +0800

Just wondering any of the following famous audiophile power amplifier makers producce class-T or class-D amp?
Marantz? Yamaha? Denon? Rega? NAD? Cambridge Audio? Cyrus? Teac? Naim? Onkyo?

I know the following brands produce class-T amp, Lepy, Lepai, Topping,
I have bought one Lepy that has the original tripath chip,
but doesn’t feel any special (of it’s sound quality).

Moving coil phono cartridges

Zhe Xia — Thu, 16 Jul 2020 15:25:18 +0800

I'm thinking of getting the Rega Apheta 3,
is there other MC cartridges that are as good as Apheta 3 but does not requires you to fetch out a huge amount of $?

Acoustic Energy Speaker

Zhe Xia — Sun, 05 Jul 2020 02:11:09 +0800

Both at same price.
AE309 has very nice bass but lack of treble. (just my opinion)
AE500 has very nice treble but lack of bass. (just my opinion)

AE309 driver uses a ceramic aluminium sandwich cone.
AE500 driver uses carbon fibre.

Don't know which one to choose.

Maybe I choose AE309 and add an external tweeter.
But external tweeter is an additional cost.

Telex transfer to Singapore bank

Zhe Xia — Thu, 18 Jun 2020 18:37:43 +0800

Say I have a divorced wife in Singapore and a children. After devoice I still provide some financial support to her every month.
So every month I will telex transfer on thousand S$ to her bank account.
My question is when doing Telex transfer, I need to fill in “Purpose of transfer:”,
There is no way for me to fill in “Family Expense”, because it is not in the menu selection.
There are selection for 1. Education, 2. Investment, 3 Financial Services, 4. Loan repayment, 5. Travel, 6. Import Tax, ….etc but no selection for “Family Expense”.
So, what can I select under this [Purpose of transfer] field?

Tube power amp Pro Av VA2000

Zhe Xia — Sun, 03 May 2020 20:45:44 +0800

Saw this amp in lazada, cost about RM3000+ contain 8 vacuum tubes.
(means 4 tubes per channel, 2 tubes for output push pull stage, 2 tubes for input stage )
Anyone knows is this local made or China Made?
Google search can't find any information on which country made.

45W both channel is quite enough already.
Anyone listened to this amp? does it sound good?

Lazada link: https://www.lazada.com.my/products/pro-av-v...s904458194.html

Looks like this VA2000 is similar to Yaqin MC10T, but does that means Yakin is the original brand?
But search everywhere for Yaqin MC10T, all indicate "out of stock".
Anyone knows where I can buy Yaqin MC10T (local store)?
Please don't tell me to buy from ebay or amazon.
I prefer to go to local store to pay cash and carry. (Selangor area).

New Highway

Zhe Xia — Wed, 29 Jan 2020 01:44:59 +0800

I would like to suggest government built a new highway from Silk Highway to Temerloh East Coast Expressway, this will provide a direct highway link from Putrajaya to East coast.
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Blood glucose test

Zhe Xia — Fri, 26 Jul 2019 12:24:45 +0800

I did a Glucose test my self this morning, using two different brand of meter, in the morning before breakfast.
But different brand meter produce different reading (both are newly brought).
Which reading should I trust ?
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Norton Core Router or Bitdefender Box

Zhe Xia — Sun, 19 May 2019 03:55:42 +0800

Where can I buy this in Malaysia?

Norton core router
Norton CoreTM replaces your router to provide full-strength, hyper fast Wi-Fi with dependable coverage. All while protecting your home network and smart devices from cyberattacks.
https://us.norton.com/core

Or Bitdefender BOX router
Bitdefender BOX is a smart home security appliance which shields desktop PCs, laptops, mobiles, tablets and all your connected devices from hackers, malware and more.
https://www.techradar.com/reviews/bitdefender-box-2

Norton router
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Bitdefender router
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Which Starbucks to visit in Selangor and KL

Zhe Xia — Sun, 05 May 2019 00:48:27 +0800

Starbucks I already visit
1) Kota Kemuning
2) Cyberjaya
3) Genting Highland + Genting Premium Outlet
4) AEON Bukit Tinggi
5) AEON Kepong
6) Setia City Mall

Anymore Starbucks that is good to visit in Selangor and KL?
Prefer big one like the one in Kota Kemuning and Cyberjaya.

Club room in Hotel Jen Puteri Johor Bahru

Zhe Xia — Mon, 31 Dec 2018 14:48:10 +0800

Last holiday went to Singapore, return to Johor Bahru midnight 12:00 am
I haven't book hotel room, so I walk in to Hotel Jen Puteri (because near 2nd link).
Only have club room available at that time, total cost about RM730.
My question is:
What are the different between the Club Room compare with the lowest cost one Deluxe Room?
I stay in Deluxe Room before, Club Room looks exactly same like Deluxe Room.

I checked in 12:00am midnight than sleep, morning 9am woke up than breakfast,
after finish breakfast went back room - 10:30am, check out time is 11:00am, I called reception ask them for 12:00pm checkout time.
than take bath, watch a bit TV programme, packing and checked out 12:00pm, really have no time for other activity in the hotel.

I want to migrate to China

Zhe Xia — Fri, 14 Sep 2018 22:51:42 +0800

Anyone has friend or relative migrate to China and happy with their decision?

My father came from China (before the WW II) to Malaysia, now the son of the father thinking to migrate back to China should be ok right?

P1 terminate my account

Zhe Xia — Mon, 13 Aug 2018 18:21:50 +0800

I received an email a month ago from P1, it said that P1 WIMAX service in my area have been discontinued effective 31 July.
Actually I have moved to other place and my new house has P1 coverage, and using P1 since March in my new house.
I does not change the address of my P1 account.

Now I am unable to connect P1 anymore, checked with P1 website….look like my account has been terminated.
I didn’t ask for termination, look like they terminate my account.
Does this means P1 shutdown all their transmission towers already?
Because if P1 did not terminate my account, I can still use the P1 modem in my new house or when I travel to other places where it has coverage, because p1 modem is portable.
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JohorBahru Hotels, Hotel Jen Puteri Harbour or

Zhe Xia — Thu, 26 Jul 2018 00:00:50 +0800

Which one do you recommend?
I stayed in Renaissance before, they are a lot of commercial shops around that area.
How about Hotel Jen Puteri Harbour? is there a lot of commercial shops around that area too? I haven't been to that area before.
I checked tripadvisor.com , look like there are more people prefer Hotel Jen Puteri Harbour.

New cable TV? Ansa Broadcast?

Zhe Xia — Wed, 25 Jul 2018 13:09:11 +0800

This news dated 18 August 2017

https://www.lowyat.net/tag/ansa-broadcast/

No more news about this?

IPTV Singapore?

Zhe Xia — Wed, 18 Jul 2018 02:16:31 +0800

Has anyone tried go to Singapore, buy a Singtel SIM prepaid card and subscribe Singtel's iptv. (S$6.9 per month only)
Than come back to Malaysia, use Malaysia's SIM card (Digi or U mobile unlimited data package)
first connect to VPN* Singapore, than install Singtel's iptv apk, start the apk and key in your Singtel iptv account password.
Wondering will this work?

Note: *one way to connect your phone to VPN Singapore is install Bitdefender into your Android phone,
Bitdefender come with a VPN software for your phone to connect to VPN (low cost).
Or use other better VPN like ExpressVPN.

U mobile GX50

Zhe Xia — Wed, 18 Jul 2018 01:31:15 +0800

I am a new subscriber of this package.
I live in south of Cyberjaya, unfortunately no coverage on 3G and 4G only have U mobile 2G, even than the signal is very weak, no internet at all.
So, I can only use this package when I am going out to restaurant and shopping mall,
Some places have both 3G and 4G, strange thing is when I use this package to watch video (live TV streaming from overseas), it will automatic switch to 3G and than the video become not smooth.
Than I stop the video and go to setting and scan network and manually select 4G, and than the phone will connect to 4G. (Both 3G and 4G has strong signal, about 4 bars).
After that I start the video streaming again and than after that the connection keep on 4G and video play smoothly.

I subscribe to this package mainly for watch video on phone when in restaurant.
(I thought at home, phone can connect to big LED TV through USB-C display port, but unfortunately no coverage at the place I stay).
This packages very good because it give unlimited* data on only RM50 per month.
*unlimited here means unlimited data for the phone only, if you enable the tethering, it gives you 5GB only for tethering. Or if you use the SIM card in a 3G/4G modem and connect laptop/computer to that modem, you can use 5GB data only (per month).

If you have an iPad that can put in a SIM card, and you use this package on your iPad it gives you unlimited data also (I guess).
Than you can install Microsoft Office into your iPad, and connect iPad to an external 32" monitor and connect iPad keyboard and mouse, than you can use your iPad like a computer, right?