We brought you HiVi/Swan, the US crossed Chinese speaker brand which delivers incredible sound quality for the money. This time we are offering yet another similar "cross bred" brand. Although Microlab is an American International + Chinese manufacturing company, the brand focuses market mostly in Germany, Oceanic, and ASEAN countries. Microlab manufactures and OEMs for many brands and a few Malaysian companies also OEMs from them. We've hand picked the most interesting series in their huge portfolio that we are certain Malaysians would love to get their hands on - The SOLO Series 2.0 Speakers.

Microlab SOLO Series Active Speakers


"C"
The "C" stands for Controller. SOLO series speakers designated with a "C" such as the SOLO6C means that it comes with an infrared remote controller. You can download this android app to control the speaker. IR blaster required on your phone: Microlab Android Remote

Most Popular Model
We anticipate the best selling model to be the SOLO6C. It has the perfect size for most people, a conventional 2-way setup, and beautifully finished in wood veneer. In terms of pricing, we expect it to go for RM 700+/-


This "tiny" speaker weights a hefty 14KG, as heavy as the HiVi/Swan M200MK2.


SOLO5C


SOLO6C


SOLO7C


SOLO9C


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Pricing & Availability
We expect to receive them at around end of November. A great reason to get one for those Christmas tunes.

Other Models

Aside from the more audiophile oriented SOLO series, we'd also be making the extremely popular FC330 available. A Sub RM 400 speaker.


This post has been edited by CyntrixTech: Oct 26 2015, 09:58 PM

We are flying in samples from Microlab and should receive them next week.

Not sure if such small driver benefits from an open baffle. Probably you can DIY it also by removing current speaker and put a cup over it.

Now on a serious note, we'd get these in next week. Audition them. Then put them out for customers to demo.

So who wants to take home demo the SOLO series?!

Like D1080 it has Treble, Bass, and Volume control. Remote is a bonus

By the way, in the same shipment we will also be bringing in Thonet and Vander. There is already a T&V distributor in Malaysia but we didn't see them doing much in terms of promoting community interest. Microlab OEMs some models for T&V, particularly this:



The SOLO9C is going to be over RM 1,000 but it's got a decent input!

The price range for the whole series, starting from 5C will start from around RM 599. With a RM 100-150 price gap between each step up. Most importantly we need to see how the models fair in real life listening compared to products already in the market.

The Hoch looks to be based on the SOLO3C. The Hoch is rated 35W RMS/Channel, the 3C is rated 30W RMS/Channel. The 9C is a significantly more powerful speaker, and even the price is almost twice of the Hoch/3C.

We won't be bringing in the 3C though, we believe the 5C, 6C, 7C, 9C to be the sweet spot of the SOLO series. Probably most people would be buying the 5C or 6C

Our new show room not ready yet But we will send to retailers for demo. Subsequently, we will also send to end users for in home demo. Want to listen to it at home?

For price comparison you can refer to Taobao. Malaysia pricing will be slightly more than Taobao since there is freight cost involved, and also GST. Give or take RM 100-150 more than Taobao pricing.

We decided to bring in these models:

B51
B55 (13)
M-108
M-100U
M111(09)
M300U
TMN-3 S/2.1
M290
M-200(09) 10th anniversary
M-200 Platinum
M-700U
M800(13)
M820
FC330
FC360
FC530U ( NO STOCK )
T6 Black
T6 Brown
T8 Black
T10
X1
X1
B77
SOLO1C
SOLO2C
SOLO3C
SOLO5C
SOLO6C
SOLO7C
SOLO9C

Every model except for the FC530U will be available for audition, and of course, purchase.