Thursday, March 19, 2009
I went to Suntec City last week for the IT Fair. Seriously I was planning to buy a external harddisk with bigger storage and considering to get a new headphone to replace my existing Atlec Lansing headphone.
I bought a new Seagate 1TB FreeAgent Xtreme Desktop with USB, FIrewire400 and eSata connector. I don't really concern about eSata connector. What I really want and more concern about is the Firewire connection. Although it only come with Firewire400 version, which mean it can support up to 400Mbps, slightly slower than USB2.0. Because of the MacBook only come with 2 USB ports, it makes me to buy the new external harddisk with firewire connector so I can simply use my Firewire to connect my harddisk meanwhile I can save one more USB port for other purpose.
The 1TB harddisk is solved all my problem. Recently I was burned a lot of my data into DVDs and it was really troublesome and wasting a lot of DVDs. I burned around 30 pieces of DVDs for my movies, pictures and other documents. In order to solve my problem more efficent rather than burning data into disc, another larger storage space of harddisk is required. The Seagate FreeAgent Xtreme is really cool. The cover is in Black color and the Seagate logo will glow when you turn it on. Wanted to get the silver color version but it is come without firewire.
It costed me $229. Although it is costed me a lot of money but I am happy to get it because I can just simply put everything into it. Now I already used more than 300GB.
Beside the external harddisk, another thing I bought is the Audio Technica headphone. I was only considering to get one at the beginning but the offer that was really attractive. The original price of the headphone is nearly $60 but after the 10% discount, it only cost me around $50.
Audio-Technica ATH-SJ3
After one week of using this headphone, what I can say is it is really worth my every cents for spending on this new baby. The sound quality is superb for the range and the look is quite stylish. I bought a white color version. It is also fold-able for me to bring anywhere conveniently.
The mid and high frequencies response is awesome and it is better than my another Sony Headphone because this is more focus on music meanwhile the Sony is more concern on movie surround sound. The bass i think it is also not a issue because so far it gives me quite a satisfied performance. The driver of SJ3 is same with my Sony headphone, which is coming with 40mm driver.
Here is the specification regarding to the headphone:
SPECIFICATIONS | |
TYPE | Dynamic |
DRIVER DIAMETER | 40 mm |
MAGNET | Neodymium |
FREQUENCY RESPONSE | 10 - 23,000Hz |
MAXIMUM INPUT POWER | 500mW |
OUTPUT SOUND LEVEL | 114 dB/mW |
IMPEDANCE | 32Ω |
WEIGHT | 135 g |
CABLE | 1.2m /OFC/ Y-type |
CONNECTOR | 3.5 mm mini stereo, gold-plated |
COLOUR | ATH-SJ3 BK (Black), ATH-SJ3 WH (White) |
Information from Audio-Technica South East Asia
So, I spent around $280 in this IT show. Although that was really a lot but these are seriously great deal.
Forgot to mention, I was went back once again on Sunday, the last day of the show to survey the price for 1GB mp3 player but the price was slightly expensive than malaysia. The funny part is because at the moment was fully crowded by people so the management of the IT fair suggested that people should return in an hour. What I feel is the way of them to control the crowd can be improved and I don't really think people will really return within an hour because you can hardly move in the place. Although the economy crisis is still existing but what i can see from this event is singaporeans will still spend their money for what they want and somemore there really offered a lot of great deals.