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I'm back from the headphones festival Spring at Nakano, Tokyo. This show is only headphones dedicated show in Japan AFAIK, and the show was called as a hi-end headphones show before and the show took place three times in the past. From this fourth time the show has been renamed and gets some renewals.
This is not a forum meet, a trade show rather. The main host is Fujiya-Avic store which is well known among Japanese headphone fanatics.
Some domestic distributors and manufactures has joined in mainly. However, here is also some room that is open to headphone fans and I brought a NuForce Icon-1 and a balanced GRADO HP-2 hooked to Rudistor NX33.
I also brought iHP140 & Headroom Micro portable 2007 with Senn HD25 apuresound V3 cable. I demoed 96Khz/24bit downloaded music on my Rockbox/iHP140 that has been downloaded from the LINN Record .
Here is a pic of my table.
http://vaiopocket.up.seesaa.net/image/CA390118.jpghttp://vaiopocket.up.seesaa.net/imag...thumbnail2.jpg
Beside the distributors, some headphones manufactures has joined in like, Audio Technica, STAX, DENON and more.
I was so busy with my duties and almost no time to visit other exhibits. Sorry about this but anyway, here is a summary of the new announcements.
Intercity announced a new balanced headphone amp.
MBA-1 and MBA-1S that must be based on popular HD-1L.
http://image.blog.livedoor.jp/fujiya...7/975ef1ee.jpg
These are dual mono amp and here is their page(Japanese).
http://www.intercity.co.jp/productinfo/mba-1/mba-1.html
CEC also announced a unique integrated amp with balanced headphones out, HD55.
http://image.blog.livedoor.jp/fujiya...a/9aff0751.jpg
here are some links (texts are Japanese), take a look also.
http://avic.livedoor.biz/archives/50976494.html
http://avic.livedoor.biz/archives/50976527.html
http://avic.livedoor.biz/archives/50976596.html
http://www.watch.impress.co.jp/av/do...80421/fuji.htm
What a great event !
This is not a forum meet, a trade show rather. The main host is Fujiya-Avic store which is well known among Japanese headphone fanatics.
Some domestic distributors and manufactures has joined in mainly. However, here is also some room that is open to headphone fans and I brought a NuForce Icon-1 and a balanced GRADO HP-2 hooked to Rudistor NX33.
I also brought iHP140 & Headroom Micro portable 2007 with Senn HD25 apuresound V3 cable. I demoed 96Khz/24bit downloaded music on my Rockbox/iHP140 that has been downloaded from the LINN Record .
Here is a pic of my table.
http://vaiopocket.up.seesaa.net/image/CA390118.jpghttp://vaiopocket.up.seesaa.net/imag...thumbnail2.jpg
Beside the distributors, some headphones manufactures has joined in like, Audio Technica, STAX, DENON and more.
I was so busy with my duties and almost no time to visit other exhibits. Sorry about this but anyway, here is a summary of the new announcements.
Intercity announced a new balanced headphone amp.
MBA-1 and MBA-1S that must be based on popular HD-1L.
http://image.blog.livedoor.jp/fujiya...7/975ef1ee.jpg
These are dual mono amp and here is their page(Japanese).
http://www.intercity.co.jp/productinfo/mba-1/mba-1.html
CEC also announced a unique integrated amp with balanced headphones out, HD55.
http://image.blog.livedoor.jp/fujiya...a/9aff0751.jpg
here are some links (texts are Japanese), take a look also.
http://avic.livedoor.biz/archives/50976494.html
http://avic.livedoor.biz/archives/50976527.html
http://avic.livedoor.biz/archives/50976596.html
http://www.watch.impress.co.jp/av/do...80421/fuji.htm
What a great event !