It is great news that 2 pair of famous B & W speaker arrived to Hi-Fi Do.
One is Nautilus original speaker delivered in June and another one is
Signature 800 delivered in August. The name of Nautilus is derived from
its unique shape.
The outstanding feature of Signature 800 is Tiger's- eye and it will
introduce in IPPIN Guide this week.
The clearance sale is still available till September 30.
All items in stock will be made 20% discount (excluding items in Audio Trading Market).
Further information on our sale is provided in Hi-Fi Do website.
Topics in this week:
1.IPPIN Guide - "B & W Signature 800"
2.CD Picks of the week - Acoustic
3.Walking around Akihabara by Taro Akiba
4.Auction in Newsletter
5.Information from Shop Managers
1.IPPIN Guide "B & W Signature 800"
B&W( Bowers & Wilkins) is the leading audio firm and it always makes a
appropriate suggestion requested by the audiophiles everywhere .
Nautilus has been praised as the best model among all speakers existing anywhere
in the world.
It is famous for the first model of cabinet-less tube speaker by radical concept and
it brings timbral accuracy and clarity of detail of reproduced sound.
Signature 800, which is a flagship model of Signature 800 series, is the ultimate
home audio speaker with stunningly refined design and outstanding acoustic technology.
Mid-range unit and tweeter is mounted on twin drive bass units cabinet by Nautilus tube
technology which was revolutionarily developed by B&W.
It is large model with more powerful Neodymium-Iron-Boron magnet structure. The cabinet
produce unique resonance. The enclosure is designed to lower harmonic distortion as much
as possible and assembled by handwork.
Signature 800 is the model to commemorate the 35th anniversary of the firm's founding.
It has refined design with graceful woodworking and front panel covered by
excellent leather. Signature 800 is most graceful model with sophisticated cosmetic style
and high-end sonic performance. Tiger's Eye veneers is another feature of this speaker.
B&W products should be regarded as the visual arts, not only the acoustic arts
like Steinway' s grand piano.
B&W speaker is the most artistic speaker with unexcelled quality of sonic performance.
The feature of "CD Picks of the week" is "Strings" .
Mr. Kondo recommends "Anthem" by Naoko Terai and Ms. Cappuccino recommends
"Midnight Blue" by Kenny Barell. You will like both of them.
Closing time of application : 21:00(JST) on September 23 Thursday
Those who were chosen among applicants will receive CD without prior announcement.
3.Walking around Akihabara by Taro Akiba
I had a phone call from my friend and he told me to take cable of speakers.
I asked ,"What type of cable?" He said, "It is 8N."
I didn't know what was 8N and asked him again, "What is 8N?"
He explained, " 8N means the fineness of copper is 99.999999% and
normally it is 4N of 99.99%. I don't know the difference exactly."
I said, "Anyway, hurry up and try it."
I arranged speaker selector to compare two cables. He visited around one o'clock.
We set the cable and tried to listen to Jazz. I could not understand the difference
and asked him, "Both sounds like almost same to me." He said, "Vocal will show the
difference."
I tried to play Japanese male vocal.
We were immediately amazed to listen to it and saw each other.
After a while I said, "It almost sounds that he sings a song at three meter behind
this time."
He said, " You finally noticed the difference. Do you want this cable? It is expensive."
I said, "No, thank you."
I understood that the quality of audio performance should not depend on the price .
I tried to use various cables and I thought the best one was 0.8-1mm single cable.
I found that the soft cable could produce soft sound and hard cable could produce
clear sound regardless of single-wiring or bowering. I recommend you to try the
different type of cable.
To be continued
4.Auction in Newsletter
The following is the result of auction in last week:
1) Kankyuoukoku "Tube special" (Separate volume of Stereo Sound)
Number of bids :4
Winning bid :JPY 4,000
2)Mark Levinson PLS-153L POWER SUPPLY
Number of bids :10
Winning bid :JPY 50,000
The auction items in this week are as follows:
1) World Audio - HIFI COMPONENTS SERIES-2 McIntosh (Separate volume of Stereo Sound)
Published date : November 30, 1977
Price at release : JPY 1,900
Size : B5
Number of pages : 215
Hi-Fi Components Series-2 McIntosh is popular magazine of Separate volume
of Stereo Sound.
Condition : The condition is not so good but enough to read. There is a slight scribble.