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張雨生：如燕盤旋而來的思念 1966-1997 全創作精選典藏

admin — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 06:36:06 +0000

While browsing the forum that I managed last week, I come across this special box. 張雨生 (Phil Chang) was a talented Taiwanese singer, song writer and producer. However he had a car accident in Oct 1997 and died 24 days later in the hospital.

I am very lucky (with the help of my internet friends) to own all his CD, hence when I know his previous record company (豐華唱片) has taken great effort to produce this collectable box set. of course I want to own it.

張雨生：如燕盤旋而來的思念 1966-1997 全創作精選典藏


Taiwan Post’s dove parcel

The box set and receipt is carefully wrapped with bubble wrapper

The box set and a plastic folder with his photo

Inside the box

A metallic blue guitar pick

Without the book

Inside the two CD containers

Lyrics book I

Lyrics book II

Inside the lyrics book

Inside of another lyrics book

Have a better look of the two CD containers

Another view of the CD containers

The book that accompany the box set

Ultimate Ears triple.fi 10 Pro

admin — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 06:01:09 +0000

I’ve been wanted to buy a new earphone for quite sometime. And since both my sister and mom also want a decent earphone, so I thought, well, why not give one of them mine and I’ll go buy a new one

So, I ebayed an Ultimate Ears triple.fi 10 Pro from an US seller on 27th Feb. It was shipped the next day and I received it on 1st March. That was quick isn’t it!

Now, my Shure E3C is waiting for someone to use. Mom said she want to know if sis wants it, and sis is undecided whether to buy a new one for herself or use my old earphone.

UE TF 10 Pro Technical Specifications:
Input Sensitivity: 117dB/mW
Frequency: Response 10 to 17,000 Hz
Impedance: 32 ohms
Internal Speaker Configuration: Three individual precision balanced armatures
Noise Isolation: -26dB
Input connector: 1/8″ (3.5mm) gold plated
Weight With cable assembly: 0.6 oz.

The parcel, the box is from Amazon!? That’s wired right!

The box

Metallic blue earphone and a stylish silver container

Everything in the box

Meier Audio’s CORDA 2MOVE

admin — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 12:58:32 +0000

Sometime this month, while browsing some on-line discussion forums, I came to know something called headphone amplifier. It is necessary for more hi-end headphones which have higher resistance and a normal CD/mp3 player won’t have enough power to drive it, i.e. no sound can come out of the headphone. In other cases, it is believed with this attached, the sound will be better, clear, louder, etc.

Hence, out of curiosity, I begin my quest of finding a suitable amplifier. Ones that are within the price range that I can afford are the CORDA’s portable series: CORDA HEADSIX, CORDA XXS and CORDA 2MOVE. I choose the 2MOVE series because it has built-in digital-to-analog converter (DAC), with it, the music can by-pass the build-in “cheap” sound card on my motherboard and hopefully can provide a much better music to my speaker and earphone.

The headphone/earphone shop (音悅音響) where I bought my Shure E3C and brother’s Westone UM1 is also selling it, but the price is little (really, very little) cheaper if I deal with the manufacturer myself. And anyway, it will be interesting to deal with the maker of the product personally than through a dealer/third-party. Therefore, I emailed Jan Meier, the owner of Meier Audio, on the 22nd to query on the pricing, shipping, delivery method, etc.

After having several elaborate email exchanges, payment was made on 23rd and CORDA 2MOVE was shipped on the same day. Jan told me it will take around 10 days to reach, which is expected.

On the sixth day after delivery, CORDA 2MOVE reaches its final destination!

The Parcel

The content

Shiny 2MOVE

Control Panel

The logo

Inside 2MOVE

My Pet Birds

admin — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 07:42:23 +0000

Photos taken today. Sparrow grows larger and is heavier, the two munia have their feather color changed.

Primeval Creatures (Season One)

admin — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 13:01:30 +0000

Primeval is a British sci-fi TV show about anomalies happening in UK that lead to appearances of creature from the years of dinosaurs and even the future!

I didn’t realise this until today when I’m watching Primeval season two episode two that: at the very end of every episode, there’s a funny image showing THE creature of the episode.

I’m going to post all of season one’s creature now and season two later when the season ended

Scutosaurus (not shown), Gorgonopsid and Coelurosauravus (not shown)

Giant Spiders (not shown) and Arthropleura

Mosasaur and Hesperornis (not shown)

Dodo and parasite (not shown)

Pteranodon (not shown) and Anurognathus

Future Predator and Gorgonopsid (not shown)