Love Sanctuary - The Stereo Evangelist

14/09/2026

"Review of Aurorasound VIDA MkII LCR-Type Phonostage by AnalogPlanet"

"Each instrument was sharpened, and distinct within a soundstage that bloomed outwards — vaster, deeper. The music pulsed with a newfound vitality, the dynamics kicking like an angry mule."

"It prioritized clarity and detail, with precise imaging and neutral tonal balance. The VIDA MkII’s high frequencies are clean and extended, the mids transparent, and the bass tight, controlled, and sometimes lean."

"And now, we can add the wholly worthy and totally amazing Aurorasound VIDA MkII to that competitive phono preamps auditioning list — a top-shelf component if ever there was. Add the VIDA MkII to your own system, and see/hear for yourself."
- Jason Toh, The Stereo Evangelist

https://www.analogplanet.com/content/can-aurorasound%E2%80%99s-vida-mkii-phono-preamp-prioritize-clarity-and-detail-while-also-achieving

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🏠No-Obligation Home Demo

Love Sanctuary
📞 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐜𝐭 𝐮𝐬 : wa.me/6580235398 (Jason Toh)
📍 𝐀𝐝𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬 : 1 Coleman Street, #04-13 The Adelphi, S179803
🕗𝐁𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐇𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬 : Open by appointment Monday to Saturday

Sky Audio
📞 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐜𝐭 𝐮𝐬 : wa.me/6597270672 (Steve Sai)
📍 𝐀𝐝𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬 : 28 Sin Ming Lane, #05-137 Midview City, S573972
🕗𝐁𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐇𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬 : Open by appointment Monday to Saturday

04/09/2026

"Ray Tubes: The Attention-to-Detail Vacuum Tube Company from Canada"

What distinguishes Ray Tubes from the crowd is its attention to not just the vacuum tube design but also small details such as the packaging box. Read on to find out more about the why and how of the box redesign that took almost 6 months to be completed.
- Jason Toh, The Stereo Evangelist

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Our product team has spent a good chunk of the last year redesigning the packaging for all Ray Tubes products. At first, our plan was to address customer feedback by streamlining variations and standardizing sizing. Next thing we knew, we had new prototypes arriving weekly and the office was covered in stacks of artisanal paper, brass stamps, and enough magnets to make the large hadron collider blush.

Needless to say, we did a little more than just streamline the design. It ended up taking almost six months, but when the final final prototype came in, it instantly became obvious that all the time spent picking materials and trial-and-erroring our printing process was well worth it. Tube packaging’s come an awful long way since the days when Radioshacks outnumbered Taco Bells. You did good, product team.

Along the way, we all learnt a whole lot about the many, many details that go into quality packaging. If that sounds up your alley, check out our blog for a detailed breakdown:
https://raytubes.audio/a/blog/ray-tubes-more-than-a-box-raising-the-bar-for-tube-packaging

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Love Sanctuary
📞 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐜𝐭 𝐮𝐬 : wa.me/6580235398 (Jason Toh)
📍 𝐀𝐝𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬 : 1 Coleman Street, #04-13 The Adelphi, S179803
🕗𝐁𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐇𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬 : Open by appointment Monday to Saturday

Sky Audio
📞 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐜𝐭 𝐮𝐬 : wa.me/6597270672 (Steve Sai)
📍 𝐀𝐝𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬 : 28 Sin Ming Lane, #05-137 Midview City, S573972
🕗𝐁𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐇𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬 : Open by appointment Monday to Saturday

03/09/2026

“Ray Tubes: Complete and Musical Vacuum Tubes from Canada”

The Ray Tubes from Canada are capable of bringing out the more complete and musical music reproduction for enjoyment, whether vocals, piano, drums, individual notes or melody.

I would like to share my customer’s experience using the Ray Tubes SELECT 6SL7 matched pair on a Willsenton R8 integrated amplifier:

“It sounds excellent. The vocals sound clearer. Bass is less pronounced in my opinion which makes the instruments in the track much more clearer.”
- Jason Toh, The Stereo Evangelist

08/05/2026

"Ray Tubes - Real and Musical Vacuum Tubes from Canada"

Ray Tubes are real and musical vacuum tubes from Canada capable of reproducing the more complete vocals, piano, double bass etc. after comparison with well-known NOS and modern tubes from Psvane, Electro-Harmonix, Takatsuki Tubes and more. They have also received many good reviews:

“These tubes will kill the holy grails of NOS… All of a sudden you’re not in Kansas anymore.” - Don Sachs, Spatial Audio Lab

“The Ray Tubes come with a one year warranty and that’s pretty special because most tubes don’t have any warranty and the ones that do usually it’s 90 days.”
- Steve Guttenberg Audiophiliac

“They are fantastic. They’re like, Wow!”
- Thomas Tan, Thomas & Stereo.

We also received many good feedback from our customers:

"The clarity and separation of the cymbals are much more apparent than my Telefunkens."
- Justin using the SELECT 12AX7

"It sounds excellent. The vocals sound clearer and the bass is less pronounced which makes the instruments in the track much more clearer"
-Fairoez using the SELECT 6SL7

We welcome you to drop by our showrooms at Midview City or The Adelphi to hear the difference.

Showrooms:
**Sky Audio**
28 Sin Ming Lane, #05-137, Midview City
+65 9727 0672 (Steve Sai)

**Love Sanctuary**
1 Coleman Street, #04-13, The Adelphi
+65 8023 5398 (Jason Toh)

13/04/2026

Dear customers,

Thank you for dropping by our meet-up activity with Shinobu Karaki, President and Designer of Aurorasound Japan on 21st March 2026 at the Love Sanctuary showroom in Adelphi.

Karaki-san covered several interesting points including:
1.What prompted him to switch from a career in Texas Instruments Japan to start the Aurorasound company
2.Design considerations for the Aurorasound amplifiers
3.What the Stereo Sound Grand Prix Award selection process is like for the HFSA-02 EL34 integrated amplifier

We also held a demo with the Aurorasound Vida MkII phonostage and HFSA-02 EL34 integrated amplifier.

The Vida MkII is one of the very few phonostages that adopt LCR-type RIAA equalisation. Most phonostages are CR-type(capacitor and resistor only) as L(inductor) is expensive and not easy to maintain consistency in inductance factor during mass production. Aurorasound requested the famous Swedish company Lundahl to develop special inductors for the Vida MkII to ensure high quality and reliability. The advantage of LCR-type RIAA equalisation is low distortion and high resolution in the low frequencies and excellence in reproducing the spatial 3D sound images.

The HFSA-02 is the latest Aurorasound product released in October 2025 and received the prestigious Stereo Sound Grand Prix 2025 award. It is an orthodox style integrated amplifier composed of full-stage vacuum tubes: input stage ECC83, ECC82, output EL34(6CA7) push-pull and Lundahl output transformer with UL connection to produce 31W+31W output power.

Once again, we thank you for your feedback and support for our activity and welcome you to arrange for a private audition of the Aurorasound products at our showrooms at The Adelphi and Midview City(SG) and Centroz(MY).

We also highly encourage you to not hesitate to arrange for a no-obligation home demo to confirm that the Aurorasound products work on your system before making a purchase.

Finally, please follow our page to stay updated on the latest activities. You can also contact me directly at +65 80235398 for any queries.

Demo Setup
1.Zorin Audio TP-S0 Turntable
2.Aurorasound Vida MkII LCR-Type Phonostage
3.Aurorasound HFSA-02 EL34 Integrated Amplifier
4.Manger Audio P2 Bending-Wave Driver Floorstanding Speakers
5.RePerformance-SPACE Cables by Steve Sai
6.Kojo Technology Grounding Solutions
7.Neohighend Luxury Audio Racks and Footers

Showrooms:
**Sky Audio**
28 Sin Ming Lane, #05-137, Midview City
+65 9727 0672 (Steve Sai)

**Love Sanctuary**
1 Coleman Street, #04-13, The Adelphi
+65 8023 5398 (Jason Toh)

**Sanctuary Audio Solution**
Centroz @ Puchong (Near IOI Puchong)
+65 9727 0672 (Steve Sai) or +65 8023 5398 (Jason Toh)

23/03/2026

17/03/2026

Dear customers,

We would like to invite you to a special meet-up activity with Shinobu Karaki, President and Designer of Aurorasound Japan.

Aurorasound specialises in the design of audio amplifiers and analog playback equipment including the Vida Prima phonostage, AFE-12 Step-Up Transformer, AFE-11 RIAA Converter and the latest HFSA-02 EL34 integrated amplifier. Karaki-san’s creations have earned awards from around the world including Stereophile US, HiFiNews UK, Stereo Sound Magazine Japan and Audiotechnique Hong Kong.

Besides his role as President and Designer of Aurorasound, Karaki-san is also a collector of 78rpm records, a music teacher and gigs regularly at a local live bar. In this meet up event, he will share his design philosophy and journey.

Seating is limited so do register early to reserve your slots. You can contact me directly at 8023 5398 for any queries.

Activity Details

Date: 21st March 2026(Saturday)
Session 1: 2-3pm
Session 2: 4-5pm
Address: Love Sanctuary Showroom
1 Coleman Street, #04-13 The Adelphi, S179803
Contact: 80235398 (Jason Toh)
97270672 (Steve Sai)

16/03/2026

Dear customers,

Thank you for dropping by our special demo activity on 14th March 2026 at the Love Sanctuary showroom in Adelphi to experience the SPACE in music reproduction:
1.The dimensions of height, depth and space of the musical performance
2.The existence of individual musical instruments and vocals
3.The movement of the individual musical instruments and vocals

We played a wide variety of songs including:
1.Round-Up, Coyote and Campfire Crackling(Howls of the coyotes from afar)
2.HiFi Flamenco(Dynamic and energetic Spanish dances)
3.Thais, Act II: Meditation (Arrangement for Harmonica and Harp)(Enchanting tune played at very low volume)

We received very good feedback from our participants:

“The sound is big and lively!”
“The sound performance is quite good and I appreciate the sharing by Steve on his experiences in building systems.”
“It sounds great and I am quite impressed by the Mangers.”

We are grateful for the feedback and the opportunity to share our direction in music reproduction and our solutions built up over the past 20 years. We can now finally achieve our primary criteria in music reproduction to bring out the more complete individual human voice and musical instruments and move so much closer to our “Destination”. With the latest critical development-“RePerformance-Space Cables by Steve Sai”, we are also able to bring out the SPACE in music reproduction.

We highly encourage you to not hesitate to arrange for a no-obligation home demo to confirm that the RePerformance-SPACE Cables work on your system before making a purchase.

Once again, we thank you for your feedback and support for our demo. Our next activity is the meet-up with Aurorasound President and designer Shinobu Karaki on 21st March 2026. Please follow our page to stay updated on the details. You can also contact me directly at 8023 5398 for any further queries.

- Jason Toh,

09/03/2026

space: the dimensions of height, depth and width within which all things exist and move

Dear customers,

We would like to invite you to a special demo activity to experience the concept of “SPACE” in music reproduction: the dimensions of height, depth and width of the musical performance within which the individual musical instruments and vocals exist and move.

Objective
Our objective is to lift our audio system to a “musical performance” level so as to enjoy and be entertained by the musical performances.

The primary criteria is to bring out the more complete individual instruments and vocals. Having achieved it, we moved so much closer to our objective and finally have the chance to discover other aspects of music reproduction for greater enjoyment.

We are delighted to introduce our latest “RePerformance-SPACE Cables by Steve Sai” which is the next critical development to bring out the SPACE in music reproduction:
1.The dimensions of height, depth and space of the musical performance
2.The existence of individual musical instruments and vocals
3.The movement of the individual musical instruments and vocals

As we want to share this transformative and immersive experience with you, we are organising a special demo activity to demonstrate how the RePerformance-SPACE Cables are able to bring out the SPACE of the musical performance for any type of music whether vocals, jazz, classical etc. You may also discover other surprising aspects of music reproduction. Space is limited so do register early to reserve your slot.

Finally, we also highly encourage you to not hesitate to arrange for a no-obligation home demo to confirm that the RePerformance-SPACE Cables work on your system before making a purchase. You can contact me directly at 8023 5398 for any further queries.

Activity Details

Date: 14th March 2026(Saturday)
Session 1: 2-3pm
Session 2: 4-5pm
Address: Love Sanctuary Showroom
1 Coleman Street, #04-13 The Adelphi, S179803
Contact: 80235398 (Jason Toh)
97270672 (Steve Sai)

Demo Setup
1.Sky Modified CD Player with Bluetooth Receiver
2.Manger p2 Bending-Wave Driver Floorstanding Speakers
3.Aurorasound HFSA-02 EL34 integrated amplifier with Ray Tubes SELECT 12AU7 Vacuum Tubes, Ray Tubes SELECT 12AX7 Vacuum Tubes, Ray Tubes RESERVE EL34 Vacuum Tubes
4.Aurorasound AFE-11 RIAA Converter with Aurorasound Power-Spot12 DC Power Supply
5.connected-fidelity AC-2K Balanced Transformer
6.RePerformance-SPACE Cables by Steve Sai
7.Mikrotik 5G Router with Aurorasound Power-Spot12 DC Power Supply
8.Neohighend Luxury Audio Racks and Footers
9.Kojo Technology Grounding

- Jason Toh, The Stereo Evangelist

06/03/2026

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The Ray Tubes One Year Warranty: The Manufacturing

This is post 2/5 in a series spotlighting our warranty and walking through the details of how it works and what you can expect from us if you buy our vacuum tubes. For the full picture, you can find the other posts on our profile.

We’re able to offer our warranty because we invest heavily in our manufacturing process. It’s easy to think of machine-made products as being perfect carbon copies of each other. This is never really true, and it’s even less true of vacuum tubes than most other products. The machinery involved in making vacuum tubes can be decades old and almost impossible to replace. Maintaining the production line requires a level of expertise and artistry that’s reminiscent of artisanal crafts.

That’s why we put so much effort into our manufacturing and quality control processes. We know that each tube is a unique object that needs to be individually assessed. No matter how hard we try, though, there’s no way to completely guarantee our tubes are defect-free – hence our warranty. For more details, check out: https://raytubes.audio/pages/ray-tubes-one-year-warranty