Oi! mates, I would like to present another product review article for this month and this one is from ZIIGAAT. I previously did a product review on this audio brand and in my opinion, I find it quite a performer for its price as it is also quite a budget-friendly one that gives a good sound quality. If you are curious about what the word ZIIGAAT means as it sounds more like a random salad letter but there's a meaning to this. It means Zero-in on Ideas, Innovate, Growth and Achieve All Together (it is quite a wordy one) and it seems that it is also...

“I will share all of this with you whenever you wish.” ~~Pierre de Fermat, French mathematician and proponent of Fermat's Theorem. Pierre de Fermat was a mathematician and lawyer in 17th century France, he was the one who formulated a number theory called Fermat's Theorem and law of refraction on light rays named Fermat's Principle. His other contributions to the field of mathematics and physics are probability, expanding the application of Cartesian geometry and optical applications. The SIMGOT revolution is still going strong up to the...

Yvain or Ywain is one of the prominent knights of King Arthur and part of the fellowship of Knights Of The Round Table. He is also known as the Knight of the Lion and known to be an adventurous person as he is enthralled with chivalric exploits like saving a lion from a dragon that earn its loyalty and companionship as they both defeat giants, demons and other knights. What I have here is a latest IEM model that carries the name of that Arthurian character. This is HiBy Yvain, it's an all-balanced armature driver IEM that was encapsulated in a...

“Music is like a dream. One that I cannot hear.” ~~ Ludwig Van Beethoven, German pianist and composer during Classical period. HiBy is an audio company that is well-renowned among audio enthusiasts around the globe for the quality of their products as they release some of the best DAPs in the market. They released recently a midrange one which was HIBY R6 PRO II and that product truly blurred the lines of between midrange and TOTL flagship as that DAP performs like a flagship albeit it offers less power output compare to its competitors when it...

"There is no art without Eros" ~~ Max Frisch, Swiss Playwright and Novelist Eros is a Greek god of love and sex and his name itself means desire. He is one of the 8 Erotes that serves as retinue to Aphrodite, the goddess of lust, love, pleasure and beauty. He is the husband of Psyche, the goddess of the soul that takes the form of a beautiful woman with butterfly wings on her back. Effect Audio is a Singaporean-based audio company that was founded in 2009 by Suyang, an electrical engineer during his university days. With his innate workmanship...

"Sound. Design. Perfection" ~~Effect Audio Cadmus is a Greek hero of a Phoenician origin. He is the brother of Europa who was abducted by Zeus that takes the form of an aurox bull. He was advised by an oracle from Delphi not to pursue his sister anymore and was advised to follow a cow where he founded the city of Thebes. He is also the husband of Harmonia, the daughter of Ares and Aphrodite, her name is also the personification of symmetry and order. Effect Audio is a Singaporean-based audio company that was founded in 2009 by Suyang, an...

"Sound. Design. Perfection" ~~Effect Audio Effect Audio is a Singaporean-based audio company that was founded in 2009 by Suyang, an electrical engineer during his university days. With his innate workmanship on crafting some cables that are capable of delivering a superior sound quality, a certain audio solution company, Crystal Cables based in the Netherlands that is also renowned for their premium and bespoke line of cables and also loudspeakers, did recognised Suyang's workmanship that leads into the development of the renowned "Crystal Cables...

ORIVETI is a Hong Kong-based audio company that specialises on engineering and designing HiFi earphones for both sophisticated and casual listeners. They are a company known for striving innovation on their products since the introduction of the Primacy series in the mid-2010s. As I did a review on their ORIVETI OD200 before, I have another set from them and this one is their latest model for the entry-level segment. This is the ORIVETI OD100, like the OD200, it has a single transducer configuration IEM but its form factor is quite different as it...

The word ZIIGAAT is quite strange for us as it is just like some nonsensical word that came up randomly. But the truth was it has something to do with the core tenets of the said audio company. ZIIGAAT is an acronym of Zero-In in Ideas, Innovate, Grow and Achieve All Together (that's quite a wordy one). Their mission-vision as a company is to harness the synergy of both audio quality and the advancement of audio technology for all audio enthusiasts to help to reach their pinnacle of audio experience with some support of innovation and ideas that...

"You have to be odd to be the number one." ~~ Theodor Seuss Geisel a.k.a. Dr Seuss, American author and cartoonist. Let's talk about TANCHJIM, TANCHJIM is a Chinese audio company that was founded in 2015 in Nanning, Guangxi Region in the southern part of mainland China. The word “TANCHJIM” means Angel Jim as it is stated on the logo of the company that was printed on the shells of the TANCHJIM Oxygen. As I mentioned about Oxygen, I've actually tested around 2019 that on the first audition, I was really impressed by its well-balanced and almost...

"When one's expectations are reduced to zero, one really appreciates everything one does have." ~~Stephen Hawking, British theoretical physicist and cosmologist, Author of A Brief History of Time. 7Hz is an audio company that made some game-changing moments that shifted the landscape of the audio market in 2021 with their highly successful model, 7Hz Timeless. This year is also the release of 7Hz Legato which is also gaining some cult following from audio enthusiasts who want a different take from usual Harmanish U-shaped sounding IEMs that keeps...

"What is music for? It's to make you feel good" ~~Sebastian Bach, Ex-vocalist of Skid Row. ORIVETI was one of the first audio brands that I've encountered in the midrange segment. It is actually an old brand and now they are somewhat reintroducing themselves again to the current audio community. Their Primacy series sets were the one of the few hybrid midrange sets that I've demoed before in a popular Hi-fi store here in my locality around late 2017. ORIVETI was established around 2015 and they are a Hong Kong-based audio company that...

Amplifiers are one of the main important devices in a Hi-Fi audio component system as it is the one which will increase the scale of audio signal either on voltage or current mode that will deliver a proportional amount of amplitude signal on its output. Amplifiers are also a type of electrical network that has a circuitry that delivers specific power gain mode to transducers. FOSI AUDIO is an audio company that specialises in audio solutions by manufacturing these high quality devices like amplifiers, pre-amps, DAC/amp dongles, speakers and other...

"Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie" ~~John Milton, English poet and intellectual. EPZ Audio is one of the newest audio brands emerging from China and releases some products that garner some good reputation from audio enthusiasts due to the overall good quality of their products either its sound quality or build quality. But take note, they were once part of a company that specialised in acoustics engineering, product designing and both software and hardware development. This company also provided some manufacturing expertise and R&D to...

"In music the passions enjoy themselves" ~~Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher and philologist, author of The Birth Of Tragedy, The Gay Science and Beyond Good and Evil. As the second phase of the battle of the planars still going on and many new entrants are trying hard to win some hearts and ears of the audio enthusiasts, LETSHUOER is one of the most active and resilient audio companies out there and they are now acclaimed as the veterans of this particular competition of planar sets in the audio market. With the release of S12 regular and...

"Music is the melody whose text is the world" ~~Arthur Schopenhauer, German Philosopher during Romantic Period, Author of "Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung". (The World As Will and Representation) Kiwi Ears recently released a lot of models and all of them have diverse driver configuration from single dynamic drivers up to quad drivers set-up. And now, they are now releasing an IEM with planar magnetic driver and they are really eager to introduce it in an even more competitive audio market. This is Kiwi Ears Melody, Kiwi Ears' first IEM...

"There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more." ~~George Gordon Byron, Lord Byron, English baron and an influential poet during the Romantic period. Martha was the last surviving species of her kind. She was a passenger pigeon in captivity and these birds were supposedly endemic in North America but due to over-hunting and deforestation, their population became declining rapidly and the last known...

"Music in the soul can be heard by the universe" ~~Lao Tzu, Chinese philosopher and founder of Taoism As planar magnetic technology on IEMs keeps evolving since the introduction of Audeze iSine 10 in the mid-2010's, it still has its limitations particularly on power scaling to drive these sets properly. But with the introduction of USB Dongles DACs for smartphones and DAPs with better power delivery on driving these types of IEMs, it also has some development by miniaturisation of its parts to be more compact and requires less power output...

"Music is life itself" ~~Louis Armstrong The portable audio market is now populated with myriads of audio companies since its renaissance from the previous decade due to globalisation. And some of these products became more accessible to the people who wants a product that is cheap and affordable yet it could give a good performance for its asking price. The rise of Chinese audio companies shouldn't be ignore of their presence in audio/visual market segment as they became a force to be reckoned with. About this audio company that produces this...

“Music is the shorthand of emotion.” ~~Leo Tolstoy, Russian writer and author of War & Peace and Anna Karenina. AFUL ACOUSTICS is one of the new audio companies that was able to achieve monumental success since the release of their highly popular models like Performer 5 and Performer 8 in a short period. To be honest, I'm not particularly impressed with the Performer 5 but the Performer 8 was a total refinement and a huge improvement of what the previous model lacked, So it was another moment that first impression last as irrelevant as AFUL is...