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Entrance to e-Earphone's CIEM shop
Yesterday I headed to e-Earphone's brand-new CIEM shop. I reserved an impressions spot for 16:00 in the grotto, and arrived at 16:02. I paid 5.400- ¥, or about 54$. I sat down with a no-nonsense gentleman by the name of Naoto Hattori. He runs Hattori Hearing Aids in Saitama. Mr. Hattori squirted silicon in my ears.
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CIEM goo going way in
Starting tomorrow, e-Earphone will open the world's first CIEM specialty shop, under their shop. Impressions cost 5.400- ¥, or about 54- USD. Cash only. Akihabara only.
The timing couldn't be more perfect; I'll be in town to meet a mate from Woodbridge, Ontario. I was thinking of dropping green on a new impression or two anyway.
And my friend will be 'farting' around Akihabara... whatever that means. Just in case, I asked him not to come to the basement of e-Earphone's building where things will go down.
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portafes's entryway was anything but geeky
Everyone likes a good Fujiya Avic headphone show. But not everyone is in it for the geekiness. Some of us prefer the iPod shuffle to the giant pancake-sized audiophile stack. Some geeks are in it for the love, not the game. They're the type that hit up e-earphone after work, looking for something that makes their music sound good. They wear backpacks and button-down plaid tees, not office blazers and briefcases. Some of them may even ride bicycles. When or if they go bald, they shave, not comb.
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Ω was out all weekend with the flu. But his betters at headfi caught the decent and indecent in the best act of the holidays. From Audio Technica to xDuoo, there's a world of geeky interest for the geeky interest in you over at headfi.
Ω out.
Tsukuba, Japan