Music! (Bomb)

So this is (most) everything I've been spending my money on recently, and by recently, I mean at around the time of the last Celga run. My music playing equipment has been revived and revamped, with new music to boot (all of which have value as collector's items). In addition, I got some fun stuff, because I spend too much time on Nico Nico Douga apparently. Not pictured: Project Sylpheed, Shin Onimusha Dawn of Dreams, and my C-Media Records CDs.

So, I've watched enough Im@s Sword World 2.0 replays that it's piqued my curiosity. I decided to buy the 3 book set, so now I have something to refer to when I see all the stuff going on in more replays. The first book I actually bought some time ago, and I only recently decided to complete the set (which is why the spine cards are different).

Here's the part that would make Riina Tada either smile or wonder why I didn't spend any more money.

I've been wanting to get into headphone amps for a while now, and I finally ordered a FiiO E17 from Micca Store, having just learned about it like two or three weeks ago. Micca Store also tossed in an optical cable (which they in turn bought from Monoprice, heh), and a free T-shirt. Now maybe there's something cool about a T-shirt with the words "Music! Bomb" emblazoned on it, paired side-by-side with the FiiO logo, but unfortunately for me, the only size T-shirt they had was XXL.

... It's large enough for me to live in. Well, whatever.

Here it is unboxed, and next to my new Sansa Fuze (which I talked about in a previous post - great deal on that) with the two line out dock cables I got. You can see how happy they are. I am too.

The LOD cables here are necessary to run your portable music player's audio through an amp because music players come with their own internal amp. They run their sound through it when you connect via the headphone jack, but the quality of those amps... all I got to say to describe their limits is that (a) they aren't dedicated amps, and (b) they're on-board amps. Line out dock cables bypass this on-board amp, meaning that you can feed your sound through a better, dedicated amp instead of the on-board one.

The FiiO E17 also functions as a Digital-Analog Converter (also known as a DAC), which more or less says that it functions like a sound card when hooked up to your computer. This was actually one of the reasons I chose the E17, so I could actually get off using on-board audio. Before I heard of the E17, I was looking at its predecessor, the E7, but the E17 can apparently do everything the E7 can and then some. It cost around $40 more, but I figure the extra investment equivalent to a two-month old video game will serve me better in the long run. So, FiiO E17.

I would describe my computer audio through the E17 as much more clean. Oh man, I was in bliss.

And here are the three new CDs I got, coming straight after my order for 11 CDs by C-Media Records. Don't think I need to explain the limited edition Idolm@ster CDs, but Exserens there (by Alstromeria Records) is the CD that Bad Apple is on. If you've been anywhere in otaku culture, you've probably run into it. It never leaves the Touhou Top 100 on Nico.

N-e-v-e-r.

And here is the complete The Idolm@ster Best of 765 + 876 =!! limited edition series. And with its completion, so too am I.