"If you don't know about music, you can forget about sound," says Lim. "Music must touch your heart and stir your soul,"

He is a trained tenor and he plays the harmonica well enough to be ranked one of Asia Pacific's best. A great admirer of Mahler's music, Lim is active in the Singapore Mahler Society.

"Anyone with electronics knowledge can design hi-fi equipment," Lim notes. "But not many are as deeply involved in music as I am. Not many know how to make the sound more musical, more human."

Lim knows. He's been at it for 20 years, evaluating different amplifier designs and testing out hundreds of tubes, capacitors, resistors, wires... to discover which combination of these components produce the most musical sound.

Instead, he studied economics and became a successful business journalist, then went on to publish his own newsletter on natural health, and later co-founded an organic foods store.

He surprised many friends when he ventured into the hifi business in 1997 with The Soul of Music. "It's not such a drastic change," Richard laughs. "From hi-fibre to hi-fi."

Richard is an explorer. His gift is in finding really good things - good food, good books, good ideas, good music... good audio equipment called DIVA.

Richard is also an evangelist, one who shares the things he believes in and loves.
He finds DIVA to be truly excellent and T S Lim to be a true master of music and hifi. He loves to share this wonderful discovery with you.