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今天全家出遊（吃吃喝喝，逛店買物）慶祝兒子17歲生日。在一個很大的shopping mall （Arundel Mills Mall) 裡有家Fye （賣CD， DVD，和 LP）。下面幾張是用手機拍的
大部份都是新唱片，一張的要價約莫和CD差不多（＄15上下）。可是有些CD（像幾張Guns‘N‘Roses的唱片）時間比較長，就分成兩張。當然，價錢也貴多了。音樂則完全是流行音樂，新的老的都有。
http://www.my-hiend.com/vbb/attachme...9&d=1342318287
http://www.my-hiend.com/vbb/attachme...8&d=1342318285
很有趣，買LP送CD
http://www.my-hiend.com/vbb/attachme...0&d=1342318289
當然，這些唱片的數量和在同一個賣場的CD數量上來比，是沒義意的。但是，賣場願意花場地來擺這些商品，表示有需求。我還看到兩位相當年輕的小姐（大概20～30歲）在翻看那些唱片（不好意思偷拍啦！）。
PS：Arundel Mills 在 Fort Meade， Maryland北邊一點。Ft. Meade對很多人可能不代表什麼意義，要是我提這個地方是美國NSA （National Security Agency）的所在, 您大概就有點興趣了。 NSA倒底作什麼，您自個Google一下就知道了。
PPS：一個地方的名字前有個“Fort”， 表示這是以前或是現在駐軍的地方。
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The New DF-2 Record Clamping System!
.....Established as one of the finest record clamping systems ever made, the original Vinyl Vise clamp (shown above) featured many innovative design and engineering advances. For one, the system had a proprietary precision twin clamping operation actuated via a simple knob twist. A true classic!
......Introducing the DF-2, evolution applied to the original Vinyl Vise design concept via state-of-the-art technological upgrades to the world's best record clamping system. Engineered improvements to the inner clamping collet system have been devised, and these innovations are now entirely sheathed in energy dampening polymer materials. The DF-2 body and clamping mechanism are custom CNC machined, with highly accurate tolerances that enable a smooth, precise, and seamless functionality. The upper lock knob is milled with slots for grip and a killer new look created with the name machined into the top.
.....Unlike lesser designs, the DF-2 doesn't act only on the label area like some Neanderthal paper weight. The DF-2 eliminates any need for dangerous stylus crunching metal edge "rings". And, the DF-2 doesn't need parasitic vacuum pressure - unwanted suction that leaches the plasticizer right out of your LPs!
.....The DF-2 is superior, yet simple to use. First, the LP is raised above the platter surface via a small diameter polymer disc placed over the spindle. The record is set in place on the disc/platter, then the DF clamp is set atop the record. While holding the lower base with finger pressure, the upper DF clamp knob is turned. This initial rotation clamps the DF-2's inner collet tightly to the LP spindle, thereby locking the DF-2 to it vertically in space. Continued turning initiates the second differential clamping action - incrementing the base's raised lower outer rim downward against the label area's outer edge. This downward edge pressure flexes the LP's groove area downward. LP contact with the platter's surface starts at the LP's outer diameter, and then continues inward across the platter surface. The DF-2's high pressure LP fusion to the platter is applied in the proper area - the grooves themselves! The playback stylus sees a "platter thick" vibration free LP! The DF-2 also dissipates any platter shaft vibration in its polymer body. The playback quality of every LP in your collection will be transformed!
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The Beatles’ Abbey Road Photo Shoot Outtakes
The Beatles’ iconic (and widely imitated) album cover Abbey Road shows all four band members walking across London’s Abbey Road. At that time The Beatles were recording the majority of their songs and albums at Abbey Road Studios (was then called EMI Studios). On August 8, 1969, Scottish photographer Iain MacMillan captured them simply walking across the street for the album’s cover. The shoot reportedly took just ten minutes but, as you can see, they had walked back and forth across the street before catching that now-famous image. Here is a gallery of outtakes from that legendary photo shoot.
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唱頭唱盤唱臂有"新"設計?在那裡?
唱盤磁浮及磁帶動,超級唱盤加上重錘平衡是"新"設計
唱盤加上磁浮、氣浮避震也是"新"設計
唱臂加上磁浮、高級支點正切臂的問巿,也是"新"設計
唱頭的發電方式沒有改變,
但強力磁鐵及可產生大電流的導線,可有極低阻抗、高輸出唱頭.
clearaudio 的 45 db 分離度、90db 動態唱頭,也是很有趣的產品.
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Ikeda KAI Reference M/C cartidge
weight: 10gr
Stylus Force: 1.8gr 10Hz-45kHz
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IKEDA Sound Labs new KAI Reference MC cartridge is the highlight of over four decades of experiences in cartridge design.
The new KAI moving coil cartridge is the culmination of technology and craftsmanship to now represents his best efforts to date.
High quality materials and components include:
The body unit being crafted from solid aluminum alloy.
The base of the cartridge to sustain the generator unit is made of titanium
The cantilever is made of Boron to ensure proper delivery of oscillation.
Highly efficient Permalloy core, low impedance coils, ideally shaped magnet yoke and the generator unit embedded a samarium-cobalt magnet are further highlights of the new IKEDA KAI MC cartridge design.
Each cartridge is hand assembled, precisely aligned and inspected one by one.
Output voltage is 0.19 mVrms, coil impedance is 2.5 Ohms and appropriate stylus force is 1.8 gram (+/-0.2 grams). Frequency response is from 10 Hz to 45 kHz, channel separation is over 27dB and channel balance is within 1.0 dB. (1kHz).
The newest flagship Ikeda “KAI” MC cartridge is the very special model that uses the high quality materials and components in each part of cartridge in order to further improve the performance of conventional models.
The body unit is made of a solid aluminum alloy by lathing a piece of aluminum alloy one by one precisely. The base of the cartridge to sustain the generator unit is made of the strongest ally, that is, Titanium. This strongest Titanium will bring out thoroughly the possible abilities of both of the micro-ridge stylus chip which will be able to trace a groove accurately upto the super high range and also of the cantilever made of Boron which can secure a superior delilvery of oscillation.
In addition, thanks to the highly efficient Permalloy core, low impedance coils, ideally shaped magnet yoke and the generator unit embedded a samarium-cobalt magnet, it is possible to reproduce the sound as close as the original at the highest level.
Ikeda “KAI” cartridge is always sophisticatedly assembled, precisely aligned and inspectingly produced one by one by spending a plenty of time with the fulfillment of various kinds of conditions required for the best phono cartridge as a playback device, for an instance, in order to extract the musical elements as it is recorded in LPs/SPs, especially the outperformance hidden in the specifications.
Specifications
Electromagnetic Generator : Moving Coil (MC)
Output Voltage : 0.19mVrms (1kHz 35.4mm/sec. at 45° peak)
Coil Impedance : 2.5 ohms.(1kHz)
Appropriate Stylus Force : 1.8gram ± 0.2gram
Frequency Response Range: 10Hz ~ 45kHz.
Channel Separation : over 27dB (1kHz)
Channel Balance: within 1.0dB (1kHz)
Stylus Chip : Micro-ridge sold pure diamond.
Cantilever: Boron
Weight : 12grams
Compliance : 7 x 10-6cm/dyne
Change of stylus : Change of generator unit including stylus coil.
Connecting terminal: Right channel: Hot --- Red. Ground --- Green
Left channel: Hot --- White. Ground --- Blue
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