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International Sound and Sight Exhibition 2013 (ISSE)

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Just came back from ISSE 2013 ! It seems even more crowded than last year. Live Concerts Live concerts are my favourite part of ISSE. Joey - lovely voice with good control and emotion Astor Fong - Hong Kong's version of Karen Carpenter. Thank you very much for taking time off from your holiday to sing for us. Unfortunately, I did not have the time this year to catch the other singers. The Large Rooms Steinway Lyngdorf The eagerness of audiophiles to get into the Steinway room hinted that something special was going on inside. S$320,000 price tag for the Model D but guess what ? Buy it during the show and enjoy a 10 % discount and get the home theater speakers free. I reached for one of my pockets but only found some lint. I must admire the sales representative, he made the price tag sound like it was perfectly normal for the typical audiophile. Open baffle design. Air Motion Transformer tweeter.  The control centre. Fully active system that has room correction processing. The speak