good and convenience hu
but doesnt not sq entry level...

Diyma are full with enthusiast~
quite true that just spending money doesn't make you an audiophile
but sometime they are quite stubborn, insisting their audio theory
without noticing the vast difference between a home environment and in car environment
But still, its a good place to learn more...

a lot more than that...
the natural sound you are talking about are categorized as : listening pleasure
Then you got staging part (ultra far right, far right, right,center,left,far left,ultra far left) height & depth
Then you got level matching part ( sound from tweeter, mid,midbass,sub) if not balance then kena deduct
Then you got installation part (normally for sq experienced unlimited) certain category is sound only
Roughly about this... further information can check with google

Mind to share which SQ competition he got 3rd place? and in which category?
Cos there are many category like for beginner/experienced/5ch/7ch...

There are few possibilities:
1. Its a low standard competition
2. There are no competitor in that category
3. Your own listening experience

Its never a myth, you don't need a standard cd to tell the difference...
But standard cd are more like standardize the measuring way for all competitor
and standardize the judging way for all judges... Even a legit CD, it doesn't mean its properly recorded
Its very common that there are few song are better recorded, and few are somewhat different feeling
different country version like japan/germany/us/taiwan/hong kong/china
The same song can sound very different...

Its still malaysia, and there are still hanky panky stuff going on, but whoever better still own
If a judge purposely made a wrong judgement, he will be complained and investigated by HQ
It happened few years ago, a local judge was revoked...
(after that, this particular judge start up his own competition )

karnival belia??
i also don't know whats that...

Malaysia one is MASCA loh... Singapore also got SASCA
all linked to IASCA, as for y not using IASCA, because there are some
name copyright issue, was told by a malaysian iasca judge

Not only iasca, here got emma also mah...
but still, there are hanky panky stuff involved
like balloting and etc...
but judging wise, not much people can interfere.

Btw, i hate those cheating shop...

Is it the same song you are comparing? in ori cd and focal cd
which part of details you are losing?

If you never use TA, you will most likely hearing more sound from right as its nearer to our ear, which will create imbalance staging, very far left and very narrow right... I can't discuss much without auditing your car though...
hehehe...