AA Audio

29/08/2026

In the previous years, we always focus on hardware improvements (e.g. better LPSU, last year with active rectifiers and Mundorf caps) before preparing for an audio show. This year we changed our strategy.

For the first time since we develop and sell music servers many years ago, the past few months we put very serious efforts in developing software for our own music servers. Our preferred music server software is Lyrion Music Server (LMS). We enhance its capabilities by developing 3 plugins which matter most for SQ and user experience:

- Audio Renderer/Player
- UPnP Endpoint (optimized for streaming with JPLAY iOS)
- CD Ripper (for best local files playback SQ)

We will demonstrate these during the upcoming WAVE 2026. Please come visit us and experience elevated level of music playback experience (both local files and streaming) in our room 433.

https://aa-audio.com.my/aa-audio-lms-plugins/

16/04/2026

We are unable to have our own room at NIAVS 2026 (Northern International Audio & Visual Show, Penang, Malaysia) due to resources issues, family priorities, and not aggravating current back problem I have.

However, AA Audio products are in use at NIAVS 2026:

- AA SiG XT USB Cable in Statement System's room

- AARS (Roon Server), AA SiG XT USB Cable, and AA SiG XT RCA cable in JW Speaker Lab's room (their flagship stereo speakers)

08/01/2026

𝐀𝐀 𝐒𝐢𝐆 𝐗𝐓 𝐔𝐒𝐁 𝐂𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐌𝐤𝟐 𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐬 𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐨 𝐓𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐌𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐖𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓 𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐀𝐜𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬.

The journey started in Feb 2023. I had opportunity to have a reviewer in NY test my USB cables. He let his friend, also in NY, to hear it in his system. So I had feedback from 2 persons / 2 systems. After tweaks and improvements, better cables were sent, twice in 2024. Additional feedback received means more tweaks and improvements. In Jan 2025, AA SiG Mk2 version USB cables were sent and this was the final iteration. The link below is the end results.

https://www.stereotimes.com/post/most-wanted-2025/ #:~:text=AA%20Audio%20SiG%20XT

Thank you 𝐑𝐨𝐛 𝐃𝐨𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐫𝐲 for your help in going through the journey.

13/09/2025

A tour of AAMS Extreme RS (AARS) showing the internals. This flagship server from AA Audio is designed to run Roon.

Brief external and detailed inside tour of our flagship AAMS Extreme RS (AARS) designed to run as Roon Server.Please visit https://aa-audio.com.my/aars/ for ...

12/09/2025

We will be at WAVE Audio & Visual Experience 2025. The product highlight is AARS, a high-end music server designed to run Roon.

AARS prototype was unveiled during NIAV 2025 in Penang last April. In early July, we compared AARS with a very high-end Roon Server from the Netherlands. It was close, but this inspired us to push AARS further by tweaking AARS power supply and operating system. We learn how Roon operates by digesting its log files. The operating system tweaks were challenging and took us months.

The good news is we are done with the tweaks. Please come and visit us at Level 16.

We can also do a free, no-obligation AARS home demo after WAVE. Please contact us directly.

https://aa-audio.com.my/aars/

02/08/2025

We have been tweaking and optimizing AAMS Extreme RS (AARS) the past 3 months which include:

- custom ISO for Windows 10 IoT Enterprise LTSC
- Mundorf Silver Gold wires for motherboard and CPU
- Audio Note UK pure silver wires for USB2 Isolator 5V power
- new settings for our USB2 Isolator
- no fuse (yes no fuses)

Our web store allows AARS custom configuration. We are ready to take orders as we are confident the performance level of AARS can challenge Roon servers costing 3 - 5 times more.

More details here : https://aa-audio.com.my/aars/

11/05/2025

Thank you Jason Messina (Audiophile Ju**ie) for covering NIAVS 2025 and having a dedicated lengthy video about our latest music servers.

🎵 Ask Questions or Schedule a demo of the Theoretica Applied Physics Bacch-SP products: [email protected] or 504-291-8388👉 Buy the Bacch4Mac and ...

28/04/2025

https://youtu.be/eYA7QtBfBX0

Product details here: https://aa-audio.com.my/aars/

AA Audio is a Made-In-Malaysia audio brand with music server and USB cable products. Owned by Anwar Ali who lives not too far from the Northern International...

26/04/2025

Please visit us at room B08 and hear the differences between using the ubiquitous Intel NUC (aka Roon Nucleus) as Roon Server versus using AARS as Roon Server. The Intel NUC7i5BNH (7th generation Core i5) is powered by 19V LPSU. Please note that most Roon users are using Intel NUC as that is the recommendation by Roon, especially for use with ROCK.

Unfortunately during the first day, a visitor took pictures of the system's side/back view with one foot behind Torus and stepped on the JL f113 subwoofer power cable, causing the IEC plug to come out partially loose while the f113 was still running. The f113 subwoofer is no longer operational now. We can only demo using Focal Diablo Utopia bookshelf speakers running as full range.