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The amazing products of Weird Sony
There are a few on this list I wouldn't mind owning.
http://www.theverge.com/2013/9/29/4783132/the-amazing-products-of-weird-sony
There are a few on this list I wouldn't mind owning.
http://www.theverge.com/2013/9/29/4783132/the-amazing-products-of-weird-sony
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Me too: I have seen the SCD-1 up close and in action at Innovative Audio. The headphones, I would gladly love to own and the portable AM/FM receiver. When I was in my early teens, I had three portable Sony radios. I had a paper route and with each new customer I earned coupons. Then, I could redeem the coupons to buy anything from the catalog. My first purchases were portable radios.
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Odd
MDR-R10. Occasionally cited as one of the best pairs of headphones ever made, the oddly-shaped R10 retailed for four figures in 1988 and has only appreciated in value since then.
Current prices at ebay between $6000 and $10.000....
I had the opportunity to gave these "coconuts" a good listen and was not impressed comparing to their "value" nowadays.
MDR-R10. Occasionally cited as one of the best pairs of headphones ever made, the oddly-shaped R10 retailed for four figures in 1988 and has only appreciated in value since then.
Current prices at ebay between $6000 and $10.000....
I had the opportunity to gave these "coconuts" a good listen and was not impressed comparing to their "value" nowadays.
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Sightings: Head On
Sightings: Head On...
You don't normally see a DC-3 from this angle. Good thing, too.
AirSpaceMag.com, May 01, 2010
When photographers ask for a vertical shot, they don’t mean this.
The 70–200mm telephoto lens that Mike Shore of Austin, Texas, used to grab this Douglas DC-3D created a compression effect, “in which the subject appears a little more extreme in comparison to the background,†he says. “This is all in the glass, and it’s a great technique to capture the eye.†The airplane landed in Bend, Oregon, around sunset on January 14, 2007. Shore asked to make an air-to-air shot, and owner Jonathan Phelps agreed. Helicopter pilot Sharon Vickers took Shore to 1,500 feet in a Robinson R44, where he set his Canon 20D at 1/125th of a second, f/3.2, and ISO 800.
“It was really dark out,†he says. Pilots Steve Dunn and Paul Bazeley flew the airplane about 15 to 20 feet off the runway at almost full speed, about 140 knots, then performed a two-G, 40-degree pullup. Shore made the photo as the Pratt & Whitney R-1830-94 Twin Wasp radial engines, each with 1,350 horsepower, clawed their way to a thousand feet, at which point the pilots banked right at about 100 knots. “At low altitude and low speed, safety is power,†says Dunn, who was in the left seat. “Always leave yourself a way out.†The finely restored DC-3—“You could eat off her, anywhere on the airplane,†says Dunn—will join a flyover of 25 to 30 DC-3s at the AirVenture gathering in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, this summer.
Sightings: Head On...
You don't normally see a DC-3 from this angle. Good thing, too.
AirSpaceMag.com, May 01, 2010
When photographers ask for a vertical shot, they don’t mean this.
The 70–200mm telephoto lens that Mike Shore of Austin, Texas, used to grab this Douglas DC-3D created a compression effect, “in which the subject appears a little more extreme in comparison to the background,†he says. “This is all in the glass, and it’s a great technique to capture the eye.†The airplane landed in Bend, Oregon, around sunset on January 14, 2007. Shore asked to make an air-to-air shot, and owner Jonathan Phelps agreed. Helicopter pilot Sharon Vickers took Shore to 1,500 feet in a Robinson R44, where he set his Canon 20D at 1/125th of a second, f/3.2, and ISO 800.
“It was really dark out,†he says. Pilots Steve Dunn and Paul Bazeley flew the airplane about 15 to 20 feet off the runway at almost full speed, about 140 knots, then performed a two-G, 40-degree pullup. Shore made the photo as the Pratt & Whitney R-1830-94 Twin Wasp radial engines, each with 1,350 horsepower, clawed their way to a thousand feet, at which point the pilots banked right at about 100 knots. “At low altitude and low speed, safety is power,†says Dunn, who was in the left seat. “Always leave yourself a way out.†The finely restored DC-3—“You could eat off her, anywhere on the airplane,†says Dunn—will join a flyover of 25 to 30 DC-3s at the AirVenture gathering in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, this summer.
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15!
Can't help it, but I'm lucky in my hunt for nice AKG classics the last few weeks......
#15.....
A K280 model, but the original drivers had it best days, so a LOT modifications were needed to get this piece into the "quality standard" I prefer....
(maybe not an original one to factory standards in the end, but this piece is sounding P-H-A-N-T-A-S-T-I-C ! !)
Can't help it, but I'm lucky in my hunt for nice AKG classics the last few weeks......
#15.....
A K280 model, but the original drivers had it best days, so a LOT modifications were needed to get this piece into the "quality standard" I prefer....
(maybe not an original one to factory standards in the end, but this piece is sounding P-H-A-N-T-A-S-T-I-C ! !)
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I began the classic AKG cans to appreciate more and more over the last year, after using some professional cans by Sony (mdr-v 900 & 7509) for years.
Those expensive Sony's will break down easily, their earpads are crap and service or getting decent spare parts are reduced to zero.
For example: The Samson SR850 (the AKG clone I mentioned earlier in this thread) costs just a fraction of the Sony's and will wipe the floor with them speaking about audio quality... NO competition at all!
The AKG's are easy to maintain or to modify, their build quality is almost everlasting, wearing comfort is superb and their design is timeless.
My collection contains only the classic "made in Austria" ones, because AKG decided to move most of their production over to China some years ago.....
Some people are piling up sealed blanks, but I have a different bad habbit.
Those expensive Sony's will break down easily, their earpads are crap and service or getting decent spare parts are reduced to zero.
For example: The Samson SR850 (the AKG clone I mentioned earlier in this thread) costs just a fraction of the Sony's and will wipe the floor with them speaking about audio quality... NO competition at all!
The AKG's are easy to maintain or to modify, their build quality is almost everlasting, wearing comfort is superb and their design is timeless.
My collection contains only the classic "made in Austria" ones, because AKG decided to move most of their production over to China some years ago.....
Some people are piling up sealed blanks, but I have a different bad habbit.
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