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HIBY R3 II: Ultra Portability

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“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 I I 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 comes to amplification capability to drive some of the power-demanding planar cans. And now what I have here is  HiBy's  latest entry-level DAP, The  HiBy R3 II . This device is a successor model of both  R3 Pro Saber 2022  and  R3 Pro Saber regular  but this set has some improvement and substantial upgraded features that differentiate itself from its predecessors. The  HiBy R3 II  has a small form factor that makes it a very portable d

EFFECT AUDIO EROS S: Desirably Luxurious

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"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 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 Piccolino"  that brought them into fame across the audio community. Their mai