Audio Technica CKF300 review

Ladies and gentlemen,
The review that you've been waiting for.  Knowing that my girlfriend's headphone was spoilt, I've decided to purchase a replacment for her. After some talking with my colleague, he recommended me to go for Audio Technica.(My colleague is using the Audio Technica SJ11) . So, I paid for RM99 , bought it from lowyat.net forums for this model ,  Audio-Technica ATH-CKF300 Bloom Inner Ear Earphones.

The is the box that houses the 

Audio-Technica ATH-CKF300 Bloom Inner Ear Earphones

After unboxing the Audio Technica CKF300, these are the contents.

The main star, which is the Audio Technica CKF300 earphones.

The instruction manual, which most of us including myself won't bother to read.

Different sized ear pieces.

After talking so much, let's start with the aesthetics of the earphones. These earphone is definitely more suitable for the ladies, because it's small and petite. There are a total of 8 attractive colours available for this model, the ATF-CKF300 series.There are also a few case designs for this model. The case here is to case for carrying the earphones. Design-wise, it provides a lot of variety. So that's a plus there. 

Now, to the important stuff, the sound quality, I don't much to compared to. I compared these headphones with the earphones that came with my Samsung Google Nexus S phone. When I used the Google Nexus S phone earphones (I'll call them Nexus S earphones for simplicity sake), even on the same volume level, the Nexus S earphones can produce a louder volume compared to the Audio Technica CKF300 series. I suspect these could Nexus earphone have larger ear pieces or longer ear pieces. I was able to achieve the same effect when I pushed the Audio Technica earphones closer into my ear.

So audio-volume wise, the Audio Technica CKF300 series does provide a softer volume, probably won't hurt your ear that much after prolonged use. But, if you're a person who likes to listen to heavy bass music, these earphones might not be suitable for you.

Listening to vocals, it seems that Audio Technica CKF300 is on par with my Nexus S earphones. Both earphones are hardly distinguishable from each other. So, both of them are even on vocals side.

On to the songs / music that I've used for testing the earphones, 

I used Skrillex - Syndicate [HD] for heavy bass music.

For the vocals, I listened to Olivia. Sometimes When We Touch .

Samsung Google Nexus S headphones

Note:  

When my girlfriend put on the Audio Technica CKF300 on the first time and heard Olivia's Sometimes When We Touch . It sounded like the music is around her , almost she's there.

Overall, I still think the Audio Technica CKF300 is good earphone , for the ladies. It's not an earphone for heavy bass music. It's good for songs that emphasized on vocals. The soft volume shouldn't hurt your ears after prolonged use.

Conclusion : 

Since it's quite illogical to pay for RM1k++ to just to get Nexus S phones,

 I'd recommend Audio Technica CKF300 earphones to whomever who wish to have quality earphone without breaking the bank

 (at RM99 it's considered quite affordable, I bought earphones that costs RM20++ seriously it doesn't lasts) 

It makes a good gift for your girlfriend / wife or gal friends (make sure you get the right color).

KISS (Keep It Short & Simple)

KISS according to wikipedia , was coined by Kelly Johnson, lead engineer at the Lockheed Skunk Works.
But Kelly Johnson translates it as "Keep it simple, stupid".


So why about talking about KISS? Because what happened last friday. An ex-colleague of mine asked for my help on something that I was supposed to finish (my bad..) before I left the company. An end user was asking for something to be done ASAP because it has been pending for 3~4 weeks before I left(?? can't remember)


The end user was asking it to be done on the same day she mentioned this request to my ex-colleague. My ex-colleague was searching high and low to solve this problem.


Let me explain what is the problem. The end user has an Excel files which stores the date of when the system (that should I've created..again.. my bad ) will email a handful of users that they should update a certain file. 


The dates are usually every 15th day in each month. So I suggested to my ex-colleague, that she should try to persuade the user, why not use Outlook instead to remind the users instead?


Why not just configure these users (probably around 6 persons) to have a reminder in their Outlook on these period that they should update this specific file. It's easy enough to be done in one day , since the users are probably in the same building. Furthermore, the users probably have VNC installed, so there's no need to go to their office to configure the reminders.It could be done remotely. 


But instead, the user still insists on creating a program / system for the purpose reminding these users via email.


aihh.......


Sometimes end users are just finicky.  


So far for KISS. Well , the next thing you want to complicate things on your hand, remember this, 
Keep it simple, stupid!

Audio Technica ATH-CKF300 and I'm back with it.

It's been a long time i've blog. Here I am again.

Just bought Audio Technica ATH-CKF300 from Edifier , lowyat.net forummer in
this forum.

A colleague of mine who is a Audio Technica fan, introduced Audio Technica products to me. He was using one of headphones,Audio Technica ATH SJ11.

Since my girlfriend's headphone is spoilt, I've decided bought a set for her, which is the Audio Technica ATH-CKF300 headphones.

Nicely packaged. Inside it contains extra earbuds, a small manual and basically that's all. I'll be doing a full review soon.

Stay tune for the review.

Problem.

Squaresoft Enix should take a geography lesson?

I was invited for Final Fantasy 14 Beta test from Square Enix. was on my way to it, but run into a small "bump". I was asked to register my country of residence. So I searched HIGH AND LOW FOR "MALAYSIA" in Europe & Other Region.

(Note: There was 3 more categories

1) Europe & The Middle East

2) Africa

3) Oceania & Other Regions)

Since Malaysia does not belong in the category (1) and (2), category (3) should be the correct choice.

But HELL NO, there was no Malaysia and there wasn't even our closest neighbor, Singapore, not even Thailand or Indonesia.?

WTF?!@# Square Enix staff are either ignorant or they were just plain stupid to leave out countries like us.

According to the system, there is no way to change country of residence once I made the confirmation. So? what did I do? I emailed them 2 days ago, I still did not receive any reply regarding this. YOU TELL ME, SQUARESOFT ENIX. Should I still be excited about Final Fantasy XIV?!!

UPDATE:

I just checked the SQUARESOFT got my question answered.

Why is my country of residence not listed?

The list of countries provided are the countries that the Square Enix Account service is currently available in. If your country is not listed, then you will be unable to complete the Square Enix Account registration process.

Check the screenshot below to prove that I'm not lying.

WHAT THE HELL?! Isn't very discriminating to those people who are stayed outside Square Enix Account "coverage"?So, Squaresoft Enix, my opinion doesn't matter now?

I say let's all Singaporean, Malaysians, Indonesians gamers should rally up and boycott Squaresoft Enix games. [but I don't feel like boycotting Deus Ex : Human Revolution :( ]

Squaresoft Enix, if you're reading THIS. PLEASE JUST PUT THE GOD DAMN SQUARESOFT ENIX ACCOUNT in our COUNTRY or WHATEVER. JUST LET US PLAY FINAL FANTAST XIV BETA OK?!

Online hardware and software stores in Malaysia

Hardware Only

www.pcspec.com.my

Hardware and software

www.cresdo.com.my

www.qwerty.com.my

www.online365days.com

Software / Games

www.tsb.com.my

www.youbeli.com

Please update me if you have any other online stores in Malaysia

Thanx

Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 launch (IV)

Continued from Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 launch (III)



But the nightmare continued after Walter Wong presented about Windows and SL4 Development. Walter Wong knows his stuff but wasn't able gain my attention at least (result of heave lunch?). But his great knowledge of Visual Studio 2010 is a plus point. After Walter Wong, there was short speech from someone in Dell Group something something, after him , someone which I can't remember the name talked a bit and passed the floor to a Lai Hoong Fai from Microsoft Malaysia.


I can't remember him passing the floor to this Hoong Fai.For a short while, we saw a few person from the event management company fiddling around with some PCs on stage for around 10 minutes. The guests wasn't informed about what was going while the people on stage trying to work their magic. Some thought this would a good opportunity to go to the washroom. Finally,when everything was almost done, the guests were informed to stay put because the event was about to start. When the "Web and Cloud Development" talk started, we were informed by Hoong Fai that they were trying to get the Internet up 10 minutes and FAILED.So, he had to present with some limited features and what not.  Since the Wireless Internet was provided by P1/ Packetone, I'm not sure if it's same to assume the Internet used by Microsoft is provided by the same party as well?  PREPARATION FAILED x 2 . (which also proves that products that depend on Internet access will not sell well here thanks the instability of the Internet connection.)

Then came MIMOS to talk about Team Foudation Server, which was still okay. There is also some products demo by MIMOS , what MIMOS does and all that.

Then the final blow was, during the SharePoint and Office Development talk, Foo Shen (correct spelling??) kept making mistakes about his program. Finally, after 2 failed attempts of making his code work, he chose to present with some other sample code in his PC. I'm very upset about this talk as well, because it seems to me that even Microsoft own staff has poor understanding of Visual Studio 2010, are we supposed we are getting good support from this product in the future? PREPARATION FAILED x 3 .

Before I forget, Microsoft indeed had some "door gift". There are actually 2 ways to get them:
a) Buy them  - There's actually a booth selling Microsoft brand products, eg.T-shirts, Jackets, Ball-pen (4 for price of RM10), Water tumbler, Name card holder, cap and etc.

b) Get them (free?) - After submitting the survey form, every guests is entitled to 1 x Windows 2008 R2 DVD with a 180 days limit and  Visual Studio 2010 Trainking Kit. This just seemed like some cheap-ass trick to reward those submitted the form and cheapskate of giving our door gifts. COURTESY FAILED x 2.

Overall, I'm very upset about how the event went. It's either Microsoft had insufficient budget for this event? or the event management company did a plain bad job. Then again, it could be both. If sufficient budget was provided and the event still turn out like shit; I, as Microsoft would fire the events company and make sure it never makes any presence in that industry. I think Microsoft's reputation was seriously screwed on this event.

Microsoft , you either buck up or prepare to go bust.