The clearance sale has just started from September 1.
All items in stock will be made 20% discount (excluding items in
Audio Trading Market).
This sale is shown at the top page of Hi-Fi Do website.
It will be available till September 30.
CD present started from last week and we decided to call it "CD Picks
of the week".
Mr. Kondo recommend CD which recording quality is excellent and
Ms. Cappuccino recommend one which she wants to listen to.
Each CD will be presented every week.
Topics in this week:
1.CD Picks of the week
2.Cappuccino's Jazz Live Concert Report
3.Walking around Akihabara by Taro Akiba
4.Auction in Newsletter
5.Information from Shop Managers
1. CD Picks of the week
Mr. Kondo and Ms. Cappuccino select CDs suited to the title of the
week and introduce their comment on each. Both CD will be presented to
applicants every week.
They selected CD featuring Drums in this week and the title is
"Drums battle, Japan vs U.S.A."
Ms. Cappuccino's selection is "Love Letter" by Roy Haynes and
Mr. Kondo's selection is "WALKIN' DOWN LEXINTON" by Masahiko Osaka.
Their comments on CDs and an application for CD present are
shown below:
Closing time of application : 21:00(JST) on September 9 Thursday
Those who were chosen among applicants will receive CD without prior
announcement.
2.Cappuccino's Jazz Live Concert Report
This week I would like to make a report of Live Concert at Royal Horse
in Osaka same as a report in last week.
Royal Horse filled with people on August 13.
This Jazz session were performed by Masahiko Osaka(Ds),
Kiyoshi Takeshita(P), Ryousui Kozasa(B), and two special guests,
Yoshiro Okazaki(Tp) and Yuzuru Yamada(As).
The concert started off "Freddie Freeloader" in Kind of Blue by
Miles Davis.
It is standard music starting with wind.
Their performance was so cool. The next was swinging number
"My Shining Hour" and it was swing music.
They enjoyed to play as they were playing catch. It was great fun to
watch their exciting performance.
"I Can't Get Started" was ballad by saxophone with melancholy tune.
Osaka played drums gently and softly and he introduced Yamada and
Okazaki as special guest.
The last number in the first set was "So What" and it was very popular
number starting with piano and base.
The five musicians all gave excellent performances and they worked
quite well together. Trumpet and saxophone were chasing at the middle
part and it made Osaka's drumming harder. Excellent drumstick
performance in long solo impressed audience.
They showed different style from their live at last night. They looked
cool quintet tonight.
The second set started with Latin music, "The night has thousand eyes"
and they played it magnificently.
"Up Jumped Spring "was Jazz Waltz and Okazaki gradually toned up from
muted level.
Piano and drums were chasing and then base, trumpet and saxophone
made sharp performance.
"In A Sentimental Mood" was featured trumpet by Okazaki and his
emotional performance was so impressed. The last number was
my favorite "Mr. PC". This is fast music starting with drums and
shifted to tubes. Their fantastic performance charmed audience and
they leaned toward the stage.
For an encore they performed "Bye Bye Black Bird".
I really enjoyed their stunning performance.
I tried to listen to music through SANSUI amplifier and hand-made
amplifier connected to stereo in right and left side. It gave us the
feeling of being at a live performance as compared with monaural
stereo. There was difference between the sound of each amplifier.
It's because the transformer of Sansui was produced 40 years ago.
The sound of hand-made amplifier seemed to be more clear than that of
Sansui HF-V60 which produced in 1956.
I did not care the different sound of both amplifier but it was
obviously different in appearance. I would like to try to make stereo
with one chassis because it is fun.
My friend called me when I listened to the music. He said, "Have you
completed making hand-made amplifier?" "Would you like to come to
my house to listen to it?" I said.
"Now, I'm driving around your house and I will be there in 15 minutes." he said.
As soon as he came in my room and said , "It sounds fairly great."
He took CD of Vivaldi and tried to listen to it. He said, "The violins
sound live. Your hand-made amplifier might produce better sound than
SANSUI HF-V60." He wanted to make amplifier by himself as I did.
He asked me how to make it and I said, "I will lend you SANSUI HF-60
and just make same one. It's so easy." but I was wondering it might
not so easy.
To be continued
4.Auction in Newsletter
The following is the result of auction in last week:
1)"The Monroe! Monroe!" LP record by Marilyn Monroe
Number of bids :1
Winning bid :JPY10,000
The auction items in this week are as follows:
1) Hi-Fi STEREO GUIDE' 76-77(Separate volume of Stereo Sound)
Editor : Kaoru Harada
Published date : December 25, 1976
Price at release : JPY1,900
Size : B5
Number of pages : 597
This is the fifth issued of STEREO GUIDE. It shows total 4,105 items
of component, stereo, accessories, etc including detailed
specification of audio equipments and price. This guide will improve
your audio information.
Condition :
There is slight dirt on back cover but the condition is good.