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BLON BL03 II: A Huge Leap of Improvement

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This review article will be more special as this product has some connection with its well-known predecessor which somehow intertwined with yours truly on why I became an audio reviewer in the first place. My path of being a reviewer starts with annoyance, frustration and a feeling that I got duped by the audio community. The story starts with the original BL03 on how it was marketed and at the same time that its fame spread across the audio community like a wildfire about tuning of this one as it was rated as “excellent”. At first, someone in the audio community declared that it has a similar tuning with the great TANCHJIM Oxygen, which I'm really a fan of (that unit was priced at almost US$300 at that time) but I can't afford to buy one at that moment. After I received some information about this product, I saved up and bought the BL03 on pre-order from an e-vendor in an online shopping app. When I received this unit with a gleeful smile to my face, after a few hours of testi...

BLON X TDKD V1: Another Unusual DAC/Amp Dongle

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The name  BLON  or its full international brand name,  WGZBLON  cemented its own legacy in the later years of 2010s as its product,  BLON-03  left an indelible mark in the audio community. I am not a fan of BLON BL03 as it did not impress me but I acknowledge its popularity among other audio enthusiasts. And BLON is now trying to be back in the audio game and they released their first ever headphone DAC/Amp dongle in partnership with TDKD HiFi, the V1. The V1 follows a standard pattern of most headphone DAC/Amp dongles like an elongated rectangular chassis with USB type-C port as its main digital interconnector to other devices and a dual audio output interface consisting of 3.5mm and 4.4mm balanced. On its physical profile, its overall structure is a CNC-milled aircraft-grade aluminium alloy and it feels light and sturdy and it has high strength with excellent fatigue resistance and is less susceptible against corrosion. On its top section, there's a tempe...

BLON X Z JOJO: Utterly Augmented Bass

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Jojo's Bizarre Adventure is a Japanese manga series created by Araki Hirohiko and it is said that it was heavily inspired from another manga series, Hokuto No Ken also known as Fist of the North Star. It's an action-adventure genre and it has some elements like some characters have unusual pose, having some unique perspective scenes and some choices of gaudy colour schemes that makes them somewhat appealing and became a butt of a meme in the internet. It seems that it is somehow connected or where they got the inspiration for today's product that I'll do a review right now. This is  BLON x Z JOJO , it is one of the  BLON's  products that was part of a collaboration project. I did a review before on a  BLON  product and it is also a collaboration project product with another well-known audio reviewer on YouTube. This one is also another collaboration project with another YouTube audio reviewer,  Zeos Pantera  also known as  Z Reviews.  It seem...