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DUNU VULKAN II: A Name With A Contrasting Sound Profile

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Vulkan is a German and Russian word for volcanoes and these type of land formation serves as an outlet or opening of crust that allows to escape some lava, gases and volcanic ashes and debris from the magma chamber as we view them as spectacular wonders of nature that either we admire for its beauty and its responsible to make land  more fertile with rich minerals for agriculture  or fear for its destructive power that greatly affects the ecological system within its vicinity. The term “Volcano” is derived from a Latin word “Vulcanus” the god of fire, blacksmithing and volcanoes in the Roman Pantheon of deities, and a patron of the metalworking craftsmen and blacksmiths, and it seems that it's a Romanified version of the Greek God, Hesphaestus as they are in the same field to worship them. It's been a while since I've reviewed a  DUNU  set as the last one that I thoroughly assessed was their  KIMA II  and I actually like its tonality and its overall product...

ZIIGAAT CRESCENT: Firmly Balanced and Musical with Superb Technical Performance

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"The crescent outline is a curved shape with two pointed ends which is quite familiar with the astronomical observations as there are two appearances of this particular shape within the phases of the moon, the waning crescent and waxing crescent. It also has a strong historical, cultural and religious significance in the Middle East as it is a symbol of Islam and at the same time, the Fertile Crescent region where the ancient civilizations were thriving and flourished due to its rich agricultural lands and one of the foundations of complex societies and they are historically situated from the Northern Egypt up to the ends of the northern part of Persian Gulf." Are we now at a year where the  ZIIGAAT  sets that are seemingly dominating the current audio market as they released banger after banger models as it also received some positive feedback from the audio enthusiasts around the world? These are some of the raised questions in the audio community that are floating around t...