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B&W 805 D3
Due to the nature of Life, the Bedroom happens to be my centre of activity. In spite of what people say about the dichotomy of work and leisure, the two blend pretty well, extracurricularly.
“Monster”-sized floorstanders would therefore not only seem like a midlife crisis insecurity about size (heh) for a boy on his thirties, but overfill my modest-sized room.
That’s where the B&W 805 D3 comes…
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HiFiLust reviews the LP2020A
LP202A deconstructed by HiFiLust
Cheap and efficient. Tube amps with topography just can’t hold a note to the brilliance of cheap Chinese engineering.
HiFiLust basks in the blue of an LP2020A Not exactly…
…your father’s T-amp. The latest incarnation of the LP2020A is of the Yamaha YDA138 class D variety.
Yamaha Yonder made in Bukang
Volume at 11 barely drags into -69dB. Earth-shattering sound…
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Zorloo ZuperDAC-S preview
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Usher Audio s520 Book Shelf Speakers
Bottoming out aside, these speakers distort early. Not nearly enough for Rihanna’s We Found Love.
A beautiful midrange does wonders but hardly makes up for premature high range and low down break ups.
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Zorloo ZuperDAC-S soon
Early adopters 😜
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RCA Black Plates 12AU7/ECC82
To those used to contemporary ECC82s/12AU7s, these RCA Black Plates rock so hard they leave modern JJ’s warm slowness and Electro-Harmonix’s clinical coldness in the veritable dust. Rock ‘n’ Roll bites so raw you could be transported back to 1957. 🐅
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If you're ok with okay
If you’re ok with okay
These will power even your most demanding 300 ohm lovelies.
Slightly larger than your standard Malaysian box o’ mancis.
However, with the advent of phones like the LG G6,
such portable amps are almost moot…
… being in that contemporary phones are equipped with DAC/amps that feed such expectations.
Still, if you’re game for such ancient artifacts as the xDuoo xq-10, you won’t be disappointed.
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RCA Black Plates 12AU7/ECC82 To those used to contemporary ECC82s/12AU7s, these RCA Black Plate rock so hard they leave modern JJ's warm slowness and Electro-Harmonix's clinical coldness in the veritable dust. Rock 'n' Roll bites so raw you could be transported back to 1957. 🐅
Announced before the Great Removal of the 3.5mm headphone jack from phones that occured just over a year ago, Zorloo’s innovative Z:ero and now Aero Digital Earphones have been way ahead of the curve.
Sporting universal micro USB, USB-C, and Lightning jack variants, your choice of smartphone or portable HiFi player dictates the type of cable by which you grab your Zorloo Aero.
Featuring an in-line top-of-the-line ESS Sabre DAC, this line (ahem) from Zorloo is a cut above the curve (ahem ahem). Zorloo was certainly prescient with regard to Apple’s and Android’s removal of the 3.5mm jacks.
Tune the Aeros to your type of Tune
The Aeros’ modular aluminum switchable earpieces are innovative. Instead of software-based or tiny-arsed leaving-you-wanting physical filters, one can happily detach and simply tune in to one’s preferred tuning by switching hardware-based customised drivers.
HearSwap by Zorloo. Available for the Aeros in Nostalgic, Acoustic, and Euphoric.
Covering the diverse music genres we drinkers of songs actually aurally appreciate, aside from the astoundingly amorphic acoustic audiophile usual suspects, these custom-tuned Zorloo Aero drivers are akin to breathtakingly bespoke (or accurately, sartorially made-to-measure) bringers of bountiful mellifluos joy.
Unfortunately, or fortunately depending on your tastes, the Aeros ship with the Acoustic HearSwap drivers by default. So how do you know which Zorloo Aero driver tuning (sartorial joke again) suits your audiophile aspirations?
Hip Hop? Calypso? Jazz? Punk? Orchestral? Live Acoustic? Heavy Metal? Opera? Audio Books? R’n’B? Country? EDM? Chamber? Electronic? House?
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Luckily, my Dear Readers, HiFiLust has the objective measured response curves and subjective listening reviews… after this jump! into the Zorloo Aeros first impressions below…
Fit and Formidable Finish
Most striking of all is the fit and finish. Snugly and comfortably do the Zorloo Aeros comfortably instil themselves in the ear.
Although the indiegogo finishes have included a multitude of garish colours and a lovely gunmetal for Acoustic, we were shipped precious shiny ship grey ones for both Euphoricand Nostalgic. Seafaring HMS Formidable battleship grey bling bling?
And we mean that in a good Audiophile aesthetic sense!
Colours now being gunmetal or metallic naval grey, the discriminative differentiation lies in the Zorloo Aeros’ notations of N, A, and E on the insides (of where the cable meets the housing).
Bass down LLLooowwwww
Mr. Saxobeat by Alexandra Stan, to give an oldie a spin, was represented in different ways by the Aeros’ three custom-tuned drivers by Zorloo.
Acoustic HearSwap a live acoustic experience fron the default Zorloo Aero HearSwap drivers. Attenuated high-end and low-end, you would believe you were at a Live Acoustic Set with this midrange-empasising EQ’d drivers.
Euphoric HearSwap Bass Heads rejoice! With sub-bass extension these Zorloo Aero HearSwap drivers feature a Smiley-faced 😁 EQ with incomparable Bass Authority. Trashing more expensive competition like full-sized Massdrop x Fostex TH-X00 Purpleheart Headphones (USD449.99) or the IEM issues like the undisputed King of Bass: Sony MDR-XB90EX Extra Bass Earbuds (USD482.26).
Hackable Hooters!!!
Although Zorloo couldn’t ship DAC-less cables, we modded a pair of our own pure silver cables lalala (sorry Andy of Zorloo).
All in the aim of testing the Aeros with Zorloo’s own ZuperDAC!
Tighter bum shaking bass and a sweeter high extension were our silver and myrrh rewards.
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🎅🎁
HiFiLust rating
HiFiLust heard and scored the Zorloo Aero Digital Earphone
Overall 9/10
Price USD89.00 10/10
Acoustic HearSwap 8.5/10
Euphoric HearSwap 8/10
Nostalgic HearSwap 9/10
with HiFiLust Pure Silver cables into Zorloo ZuperDAC
Acoustic 9/10 Euphoric 9/10 Nostalgic 10/10
Footnote for the Future
We hear whispers of a Zorloo ZuperDAC mk2 (though Andy being Andy of Zorloo, has been zzzzz mum on this).
All we can say is HiFiLust looks forward to the apocalyptic possibility of a Zorloo ZuperDAC v2. Apocalyptic to the likes of overpriced über-expensive underwhelming to our ears Dragonfly DACs and HiFiMan that ought to be shelved for good.
Zorloo Aero Digital Earphones with outboard in-line audiophile DAC Announced before the Great Removal of the 3.5mm headphone jack from phones that occured just over a year ago, Zorloo's innovative Z:ero and now Aero Digital Earphones have been way ahead of the curve.
Awei ES-Q9 Wooden Super Bass Earphones
Wooden Wonders
Sometimes a €4.99 bottle of plonk hints at the richness of a €69.69 bottle of French Merlot. In some situations, their unsaid prices mellifluously outstrip even €100.00 bottles…
Try blind-testing any serious sommelier.
Such was the case of the Awei ES-Q9 earphones. These little woofy wonders of wood cost little more than €3.75 a pop.
With units that are carved of solid wood, their…
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Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (50th Anniversary)
Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (50th Anniversary)
This, Being for the Benefit of Mr Kait! (kait is Malaysian for relations)
Beatles in Penang!
HiFiLust finally received our mailed physical copy of The Beatles’ much vaunted stereo remix of ‘Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band’!
our HiFiLust’d for ♣ Band
Our brief review of the CDs at 16-bit 44.1kHz remind us why the 2009 Stereo Remasters literally suck slimey Snipe (from Pixar’s ‘Up’)…
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Zorloo ZuperDAC
ZuperDAClyisticsexyabsoloshes!
A pack of cigarettes in the mail? I shook the package about, not a rustle. Well-packed cigarettes? Tearing open the package revealed a handsome sturdy black card box. More aural than oral pleasure. No cigarettes, but the much-vaunted shiny Zorloo ZuperDAC greeted me in its exquisite packaging.

Nesting in classy gray foam, its inert form like a sci-fi key to…
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