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KZ MERGA: Sparkling And Shimmering Like Its Namesake

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Merga which is also known as Marrah is a star in a constellation found in a northern celestial hemisphere. It is said that this star is a bit larger than our sun in the solar system. KZ  or  KNOWLEDGE ZENITH  is probably one of most influential audio brands coming from Mainland China as it truly changed the landscape of portable audio enthusiasm here in the Philippines in the last quarter of 2010s. They envision that they will provide a high fidelity experience at a very affordable price to garner more audio enthusiasts and casual listeners alike. I think that the audio community becomes even stronger thanks to the audio companies that offer products at very competitive pricing with decent built quality that garners a pool of audio hobbyists who are really interested in audio technology and high fidelity experience that even budget and entry-level sets are capable of delivering those aspects. KZ ATE  was my first  KZ  set as I bought it around 2016 or 2017 and I'm actually quite en

CCA TRIO: Three Makes it Even Better

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The audio company,  CCA (Clear Concept Audio)  for me is somewhat of a refined version of its older sister,  KZ (Knowledge Zenith)  on how it tuned their products. The  CCA Duo  is still one of my favourite dual dynamic sets out there as I really enjoy using it occasionally in my casual listening session and it became part of my rotational set in a month. And now what we have here is its successor model, The  CCA TRIO . The  CCA TRIO  is definitely an upgrade over the  DUO  in terms of features as it has an additional driver and tuning switches. It uses a slightly larger dynamic driver compared to the  DUO  as it has an 8mm compared to previous 7mm and it was slightly modified to have a more cohesive presentation of all parts of the frequency range while maintaining a less distorted and interference-free sound quality. Its three dynamic drivers were assigned in some certain part of a frequency range as the two dynamic drivers were assigned to sub bass region and mid bass sections while

TANGZU XUAN NV: A Smooth Analogue Tonality

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Xuan Nv is a celestial benevolent deity of Taoism as she is the goddess that taught the Yellow Emperor with some esoteric military arts to aid his cosmic conquest in the war of heaven. She is also known to be a divine   entity that propagates the knowledge of Feng Shui, craftsmanship, shamanism, sexcraft and alchemy arts. In older texts, she was described as a woman with a body of a bird and will sometimes appear to help some heroes in need for protection. It is quite unusual that  TANGZU  didn't name a model after a historical personality or an event in Tang dynasty era but rather to a Taoist deity. But I think that I get the general idea on why they named a set after this traditional philosophical-religious movement as Taoism became one of the major religions in Tang China along with Confucianism and Buddhism and all the imperial family claimed to be a descendant of Lao Tzu, the founder of the said religion. This is  TANGZU XUAN NV  and this is their latest entry-level offering a