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Wish You Where Here How Many? 
26.Jan.12
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How many different pressings of your favourite LP do you need? Maybe 3, max 4? [more...]
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Reissueable LP - Is Anyone Listening?
12.Dec.11
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So what’s new in EMI’s latest remastered, reissued vinyl for Dark Side of The Moon (DSOTM), Wish You Were Here (WYWH) and the soon-to-come The Wall in deluxe print? [more...]
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Whitesnake 2011 “Forevermore” Tour
11.Nov.11
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Are you old enough to remember National Theatre situated at the slope front of River Valley Road? Back in the late 70s, I used to get my rock concert fix there courtesy of 2nd Chance, who was still in textile retailer business [more...]
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Don’t Stop Believin’
1.Nov.11
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The subject of loudness war /CD compression is beaten to death and have been covered by numerous audio writers. However, this illness of the music industry becomes fresh again (to me) after reading Steve Perry’s (Journey) very recent interview [more...]
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Issues With Reissues Part II
11.Oct.11
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Mr. J (an avid LP customer) is not afraid of doing A/B comparison of LP pressings. He has turned up several times since my last article ranting about some reissue LP (Issues with Reissue) about a year ago [more...].
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Friday Night In San Francisco CD Review
24.Sep.11
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One thought that comes to mind when I’m browsing through my old collection of music is “Would there still be interest in this s**t in the next generation?” Well, my reply to to my own question is - why not, as long as the music is good, the playing is good and the recording is good.
Joseph Luke loves this CD and LP enough to pen this [more...]
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The Vocal Collection CD Review
5.Sep.11
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Joseph Luke, our guest writer just penned this new CD review for this site, his first new writings in many years. Joseph has a pair of keen ears for excellent sounding CD as well as music content. I am not sure if the reviewed CD reviewed here is “new” or still available but it is certainly worth checking out should you chance upon it. [more...]
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Jose Feliciano CD Review
2.Sep.11
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Oyster and Joseph Luke (陆强声) were active contributors to Joe Lee’s 1388.com (remember him?) during its heydays. Out of our own interest (mostly for fun) and resources, we submitted our many CD review articles to his website which we believed drew plenty of hits then.
1388.com is long gone and so did many of my own writings. However, Joseph kept his and he is so kind to allow me to republish some of them in this blog.
Joseph Luke is a tube fan (he has a bunch of rare ones) and he has also picked up plenty of good sounding, out-of-print CDs through the years. Of course, some 10 years back, these CDs are anything but rare.
So presenting the first article here (in Chinese) is Jose Feliciano - The Hits Collection CD [more...]
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Joe Bonamassa @ The Esplande
4.Jul.11
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15th May 2011, I was seated on the 2nd row at the right side from the stage of Joe Bonamassa’s gig at The Esplande. The last time I was [more...]
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Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind
13.Mar.11
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15th February 2011, a wet Tuesday evening was a big night out for me as I went to see one of my rock idols Iron Maiden (The Final Frontier World Tour) live in concert [more...]
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Made In Japan IV
24.Nov.10
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l find myself running short of superlatives to describe this fascinating place called Tokyo. The smallest, the biggest, the trendiest, the prettiest [more...]
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Issues With Reissue
11.Jul.10
My rule of thumb on buying reissue LP is simple - if a clean copy of an original pressing is affordable and available, drop the reissue. If a clean copy of an original pressing is available but not [more...]
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Koji Tamaki - Wine-Red No Kokoro
9.Jul.10
This is a re-print of my original article written back some 10 years ago (June 2000) for 1388.com.
The cream of classic rock was in the late 60s to 70s and J-pop (to me) was at its peak in the 80s [more...]
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Assorted LP Views
6.Apr.10
Music reviews are never dated no matter how long ago they were written. I was blogging around Y2k and some views were written even earlier. LPs were way more affordable then [more...]
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Mars Volta LP Review
20.Feb.10
The progressive rock LP that M. Fremer asked his readers to leave behind (DSOTM) and to listen to this. After almost listening, I don’t know what to say [more...]
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Digital LP
2.Jan.10
I wrote these thoughts about LP recorded or mastered digitally back in August 06. [more...]
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Made In Japan III
26.Dec.09
Hokkaido (Japan) was my holiday destination with my family this year-end. It was simply a two thumbs-up holiday. The food, the sight-seeing, the shopping and the Winter. I know of a Taiwanese friend who visits Hokkaido with his family every year and now I know why [more...]
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Good Sounding Greatest Hits LP Vol. 2
25.Dec.09
While browsing the current crop of new LP reissues, I think finding space to keep them could become an issue. You see, they are now heavier, bigger in size [more...]
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Classic Rock (Lost) Art
10.Dec.09
I sketched a lot during my teen years and no subject is more inspiring to me than rock stars [more...]
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Art for Art Sake
8.Dec.09
Was album art killed by CD? I was digging the Internet trying to find one of my lost books on album covers. As I was searching [more...]
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Hi inFidelity Celebrates 30th Anniversary
15.Nov.09
The LP title that inspired the name of this website is now 30 years old. [more...]
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Pirates of the Caribbean
30.Oct.09
The music pirates came a long way. Long before sexy-cool Johnny Depp’s showed us you can be a funny pirate with a heart, many of us were enjoying pirated entertainment in Singapore when we were kids. [more...].
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Porcupine Tree - The Incident
27.Sep.09
This is not a Porcupine Tree new lp review - at least not about the music content. There are many reviews found in current music magazines. The current issue of Classic Rock (magazine) gave it an 8/10 but most Tree fans would just buy whatever Steve Wilson produces and plays anyway [more...].
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Good Sounding Greatest Hits
27.June.09
Greatest hits LPs to audiophiles are like most common set lunch - it fills your stomach, does it job and nothing else. Most of the time, its more quantity than quality [more...]
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Grana Vintage Watch
27 June.09
Does Hi-fi and vintage watches go together? I do not know but know quite a few folks (audiophiles) who are into collectors as well as active traders of these antiques. Coincidentally, I’ve with me some vintage Grana watches for sale. [Next change...]
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The Hunter Hunted
25.May.09
The original The Hunter LP by Jennifer Warnes (released only in Europe) must be one of the most expensive if not the most expensive pop/rock LP I know [more...].
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Luna Coffee House
23.Feb.09
Just before Chinese New Year, Oyster spent a short holiday visiting friends in HK and also made an almost impromptu visit to [more...]
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The Times They Are A-Changin’
2.Feb.09
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Flashback to year Jul 2001 when Oyster became digital free. [more...]
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Most Rotated 12” Singles
10.Jan.09
12” singles are not the most popular among vinylphiles because of its limited playtime and more often than not rehashed material from the A-side with B-grade fillers. But there is no denying the audiophile qualities [more...]
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Made In Japan II
28.Oct.08
In my first installment, I talked about my surprise find that food prices in Tokyo in general are not expensive vis-a-vis downtown Singapore. In this second installment... [more...]
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Metallica Death Magnetic 45rpm
20.Oct.08
Oyster pre-ordered it shortly after reading this limited 5 x 45rpm LP. Wow, the can’t-go-wrong 45rpm format... [more...]
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Made In Japan
15.Sep.08
Oyster was at the land of the rising sun Tokyo - Japan in August 08 for 1 week with just enough flyer’s miles to get me there on the new SIA A380. To be honest, I wouldn’t fly the super... [more...]
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Cover Me
19.May.08
Here are some of the best cover versions ever recorded and voted by Classic Rock readers in issue #8 back in 1999. I reckon if this poll is repeated every year, you would get about the same result. Oyster will throw into the mix some of my personal favourites that’s not in the Top 20. [more...]
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Welcome Back!
7.May.08
It’s been a while since I last updated my blog. It took so long because I was looking for more hosting space at a competitive price. My old hosting provider was not competitive. He didn’t adjust to market condition which is - lower price and more hosting space! The thing I hated the most was the continuous spamming of reminders e-mails when I breached the space allocated.
Switching provider is not as simple as I first thought. First, you have to let your current provider know that you’re jumping ship. Make sure he doesn’t up-sell you before unlocking your domain to his competitor. Next, you’ve to archive your website, e-mails and what you’ve dumped through the years back to your own hard drive.
After paying your new provider and you’ll be given latter permission to “own” your domain name (you’ll get numerous chances to withdraw or proceed), he has opened up your domain and transferred ownership to his hosting site then you can rework (configure) and re-upload your website. Sounds like lots of fun or a waste of time? I would leave it to you to find out.
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