Assume that the headunit of the balanced system is “Pioneer DEH-1050E (less than RM300)”, rear speaker is JBL 3 way speaker (~RM250), front speaker is unknown.  The rear and front speaker is connected directly to the headunit.  Money spent = less than RM550.

Assume that the headunit of a unbalanced system is stock headunit + “cheap amp (RM300)” + front speaker -”soundstream XSC.6 (~RM500)” + stock rear speaker.  Money spent = “around RM800″.  The front speaker is connected through the amp and the rear speaker is connected directly to the headunit.  The Left channel and Right channel of the amp is connected to front left channel of headunit (This stupid connection is done by inexperienced technician to cheat inexperienced user, because of this connection, there is no stereo effect).

For those two systems above, which system do you think will sound better, definitely is the balanced system eventhrough less money is spent.

The soundstream component speaker installed on the unbalanced system describe above is such a waste, the speaker cant show its full potential and good source quality due to poor quality source (headunit with low SNR) and poor quality amp (output with high THD).

The scenario of the unbalanced system is like connecting a sennheiser HD650( audiophile headphone) to a mp3 player.  A good pair of headphones will require a high quality headphones amplifier and good source to sounds good.

So, be wise when selecting the components, dont blame that the speakers is not good when you are pairing the good speakers with poor quality headunit and amp, people will laugh at you.

My family and I

Thanks to Andrew, Vik, Sung, Wan Chew, Pei Hong, and Kian Bing for the birthday presents.

If you always observe speaker brands and designs that are available at the market, reading PC magazines, or online reviews, you will notice that DIVOOM’s design is very very very similar to other speakers’ design. Its copying other brand’s design!!! I really hate brand which copy other brand’s design.

The subwoofer design of DIVOOM X-Force 2 is similar to Altec LAnsing MX5051’s design. The satellite design is copied from Creative GigaWorks T20.

This is the MX5021.

This is DIVOOM Xforce-2.

The DIVOOM Xforce-1 subwoofer design is very similar to logitech Z5500’s subwoofer design.

This is DIVOOM Xforce-1.

This is Logitech Z-5500.

The DIVOOM Ares-100 is similar to Logitech Z3.

This is DIVOOM Ares-100.

This is Logitech Z3.

There are many other models of DIVOOM which is very similar to other brand’s speaker design. Its too tiring for me to list them all.

Below is how my project looks like. It is a simple project.

This is the relay.

This is the timer.

The inductive sensor.

The LED.

I hope that Swinburne students will park at proper place and avoid blocking other peoples’ car. How would you feel if someone blocked your car in the same way as you block other peoples’ car?

The blue component is the Metal Oxide Varistor (MOV). You can see the MOV was burnt. That was caused by lightning strike. The yellow and black wires was connected to telephone line. The red and blue was connected to AC power and the green cable was connected to earth.

When my friends and I arrived there, we were shocked that there too many students waiting for enrollment.  The lobby was crowded by students.  Students who want to go to the toilet experienced difficulties because the way were blocked by students who were queuing up, waiting for their turns to enroll.  Students were required to take number before they can enter the auditorium to enroll.  First, students will need to fill in the enrollment form.  Then queue up, then let the subject coordinator to sign the form, then pass the form to the enrolling officer.
I took me nearly 2 hours to complete the enrollment process.  The enrollment system really sucks!  I hope that there will be some improvement on the next year.
I suggest that there split the queue into 2 groups.  One for students who does not have question to ask the subject coordinators, and one for students who had questions to ask, so that students who had no questions to ask (me and my friends) get the enrollment form signed as soon as possible and pass the form to the enrollment officer.  This will speed up the process and avoid too many students queuing for a long time just to pass up the enrollment.
There is one thing which Swinburne is very efficient at doing it, that is printing the INVOICE and stating the students must pay their fees within a week.  If not, their name will be dropped and their will require to enroll one more time.

The link above shows the salary surveys between different countries.   I was shocked when I see that job salaries in Malaysia is even lower than Thailand.  There is a huge gap between salaries in Singapore and Malaysia even though both countries start developing at the same time.  What might be the cause?

See the table of the Average Annual Salary by Years of Experience (U.S. Dollar).
The salaries of working in Malaysia for more than 10 years is even lower than salaries of working in Singapore for less than 5 years.  What a huge differences.

http://www.zeroshift.com/demonstrations.html

Watch the three videos to see the difference between conventional manual transmission and Zeroshift. The third video uses water to show that there is no sudden change in G force.