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April 24 , 2004

Limited sale in Moriyama warehouse is available from April 29 to
May 9 and open hour is from 10:00 to 18:00.
Unit price of any item in this warehouse is only JPY 1,000 and it will
fascinate audiophiles.
If you want shopping in Moriyama warehouse, the reservation in advance
is required as below:

mailto:merumaga@hifido.co.jp

The detailed information about Moriyama warehouse including location
is noticed only for the person who complete reservation.
If you go shopping to our warehouse , we recommend you to take work
glove with rubber.


Topics in this week:

1."Walking around Akihabara" by Taro Akiba
2.Disassembly and Reassembly
3.Auction in Newsletter
4.Information from Shop Manager
5.The history of Moriyama warehouse

1."Walking around Akihabara" by Taro Akiba

"Walking around Akihabara #2"

My audio image has been completely changed since I bought SUNSUI
HF-V60 produced in 1956.
It sounded as if I listened to the piano just being played next to me.
The sound of transistor amplifier which I had before generated
mechanical sound. However, HF-V60 with tubes seemed to generate
natural sound. It was so old product that I wanted to replace condenser
and resister.
I transferred the diagram to the paper before disassembling it
because I was hardly familiar with electricity. Fortunately, a small
diagram was attached at the reverse of hood and I also transferred it
to the paper.
The next day it sprinkled and I went to Akihabara by train. First I
bought a soldering iron at the parts shop.

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I found wire produced by Western in the '50s which price was
JPY 2,000/meter.
It seemed expensive but I bought 5 meter. In addition, I got
condenser and resister.
Then, I went to Hi- Fi Do and the manager asked me, "Why did you come
here in the rain?"
"I disassembled Sansui Amplifier and I came to get their parts."
I said.
"Have you already disassembled it? Can you reassemble it by yourself?"
He said. "I think I can manage to do it." I said.
The manager said, "Disassemble might not so easy as you expected and
it might be better to leave it specialist.
If you are not able to do it, I arrange to reassemble it with our
service maintenance."
His suggestion made me decide to disassemble it without anxiety. I
wonder if I could accomplish it.

To be continued.


2.Disassembly and Reassembly

This week we would like to introduce requesting mail to "Disassembly
and Reassembly" from our subscribers.

1) ALTEC DUPULEX

We are requested to disassemble ALTEC DUPULEX , however, this product
is not available in our stock now.
We will try disassembly of ALTEC DUPULEX as soon as it arrives to
Hi-Fi Do.


2)NAKAMICHI 1000ZXL or DRANGON

Our customer who bought 1000ZXL and DRANGON from Hi-Fi Do requested
to disassemble either of them.
We are now selecting the most suitable person to disassemble it among
our staff.

3)Colombia Record player RG-601

We received requesting mail to disassemble Record Player RG-601,
however, it had been sold the day before we got mail. We are now
waiting for arrival of RG-601.

3. Auction in Newsletter

The followings are the result of auction in last week:

1)Separate Volume of Stereo Sound 1976 Winter

Number of bids :7
Winning bid :JPY 12,000

2)A set of two Record Dictionary( May '94 Version and December
'95 Version)

Number of bids :8
Winning bid :JPY 2,501


The auction items in this week are as follows:

1)'77-78 Domestic and Overseas Audio equipments dictionary
Components Line-up

Published date : May 25, 1977 by Sobi planning
Number of pages :638 pages
Price at release : JPY 2,000
Size :B5 with hardcover

Stereo Guide published by Stereo Sound and above "COMPONENTS LINE-UP"
are valuable materials for Hi-Fi Do's staff.

Condition: There is slight stain and scribble. The back cover is
disclored little but it is generally in good condition.


http://www.hifido.co.jp/cgi-bin/auction/show.cgi?s=d&num=37&id=0403702&l=EN


If you place a bid or have any inquiry, please mail to :

mailto:osu@hifido.co.jp


2)Musento Jikken (Radio and Experiment) January Issue in 1969
"'69 Stereo Listening Technique - Design and manufacturing of Premain
amplifier"

Published date : January 21, 1969
Number of pages :438 pages
Price at release : JPY 1,000
Size :B5

Circuit diagrams of QUAD 33 , JBL SG-520, MARANTZ 7T, TECHNICS 30A are
included.
Most of the articles are described for pre-main amplifier.

Condition : This is old book but the condition is comparatively good
with slight stain.

http://www.hifido.co.jp/cgi-bin/auction/show.cgi?s=d&num=37&id=0403701&l=EN

If you place a bid or have any inquiry, please mail to :

mailto:osu@hifido.co.jp

3.MARANTZ MODEL9K ASSEMBLY MANUAL

This is assembly manual to produce "My original #9" .
According to the intention of this manual, this kit is produced for
the user who understand it may not reproduce the original sound of 9K.

Condition : There is some stain on the cover.

http://www.hifido.co.jp/cgi-bin/auction/show.cgi?s=d&num=37&id=0403703&l=EN

If you place a bid or have any inquiry, please mail to :

mailto:nihon@hifido.co.jp


Auction closing time : 21:00(JST) on April 29(Thursday)

We are waiting for your bid.

4. Information from Shop Manager

Ohsu Shop

We would like to focus on Audio Accessory and stereo.


http://www.hifido.co.jp/merumaga/040423/osue.html

by Iwamura
Nipponbashi Shop

The feature in this week is DIATONE.


http://www.hifido.co.jp/merumaga/040423/nihone.html

by Tokushige


Akihabara Shop

This week's music is "Cafe Samba go-go-seven".

http://www.hifido.co.jp/merumaga/040423/akibae.html

by Ichikawa

5.Moriyama warehouse story

Manager of Moriyama warehouse is Hi-Fi Do's president, Mitsuo
Teramoto. We would like to introduce the history of Moriyama
warehouse.
Mitsuo Teramoto owned an audio franchise store in 1995 when he was
44 years old.

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After canceling franchise contract, he established Hi-Fi Do on
February 1st in 1996. At that time there was only one part-time staff
in a small shop and few customer visited Hi-Fi Do.
He decided to launch internet shopping and opened Hi-Fi Do website on
the Internet, however, those days such online shopping was not so
popular that there was few inquiry.
Gradually the number of inquiry was increasing by advertisement in
Audio Magazines and one day he received the fortunate call as turning
point of his business.
It was a call from the president of a company in Tokushima who wanted
to sell audio equipments before bankruptcy . Just before rushing to
Tokushima, Teramoto received another call from a customer in Kochi
who wanted to sell ALTEC BARCELONA.
He rented a 4 ton truck and drove to Tokushima and loaded a lot of
audio equipments into his truck.
Then, he drove to see the owner of BARCELONA.
The owner wanted to buy a pair of McIntosh MC60 when Teramoto showed
him audio equipments loaded in his truck and they started price
negotiation for MC60.

http://www.hifido.co.jp/cgi-bin/oldhifido_info5.cgi?model_no=04-18669-25994-50-2004-03-14&lang=e

Finally their price negotiation was completed successfully.

http://www.hifido.co.jp/cgi-bin/newhifido_info5.cgi?code=04-18290-23883-00&lang=e

Teramoto displayed audio items loaded on his truck at his shop and
posted them on Hi-Fi Do's website when he returned to Naygoya. Then,
he rented Moriyama warehouse to store the stock items on
August 7 ,1988.
There are a lot of junk items stored in Moriyama warehouse but some of
them might interest audiophiles.
Teramoto is waiting for you at Moriyama warehouse.

http://www.hifido.co.jp/merumaga/040423/photo/boss2.jpg

Please make reservation in advance to visit Moriyama warehouse and the
detailed information about the warehouse including location is
available after reservation as below :

mailto:merumaga@hifido.co.jp

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