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  1. I guess this wont really help you but...

     

    I had a kiwi buddy in Ibaraki who had a nice little side business buying used cars in japan, and selling then in NZ...he made profit even after paying for shipping the cars over...

     

    but that is all I know...

     

    danz

  2. nekobi....

     

    it is way more economical to make digital prints than prints from film (especially in this country!)...

     

    1) You dont have to print the entire role

    2) pick and choose which pics you like on your computer, and print as many as you want (under 25yen/print)

    3) online photo-albums are free and super easy to use (I use shutterfly.com)...I can share pics with friends and family instantly now...very cool

     

    I still use my slr on long trips, but the digicam is an amazing gadget...from mini-vids, skiing, nights out, to anything your artistic eye can see...

     

    danz

  3. hey....

     

    the whole time we were climbing we knew we were taking a risk. Saying that, we did do it as safe as you could without the gear...one at a time...avoiding obvious terrain traps....we even chatted with some of the avie courses going on at top...although I dont know much about avie, I am pretty confident in saying that that day was very stable...

     

    anyway, kagura rocks!

     

    danz

  4. I know I have been here long enough to know not to think about these things, but....

     

    why oh why did naeba-kagura-tashiro-matumoto spend all that money on the dragondola?? I mean, naeba and the kagura resorts really have no business being connected...and all that money could have been used to expand kagura...it is sick how much terrain is available there...just sick!

     

    On sat. was riding up the lift with a Kagura lifty and asked him if the top lift was running...he said no...so I asked why (it was a bluebird day, no wind). He said its because there is too much snow confused.gif confused.gif I asked him : "Isnt alot of snow a good thing for a ski resort??"...he just looked puzzled and sucked air through his teeth...

     

    oh well...it was an epic day nonetheless...

     

    danz

  5. kagura was good! Lots of powder...

     

    I did that hike, and it was probably the most painful, greulling, annoying hike I have ever done...there were about 3 tours/avie courses going on, each with at least 15members...not to mention tons of other people climbing..everyone had skins or snowshoes, which left me as the only one hiking in ski boots (my buddies all were on their elven snowboard boots...)...so it felt like I was walking in quicksand for 2hrs...sucked...

     

    but the results were great...amazing steep wide open face...

     

    the trees on the switchback at the very end were also good fun...

     

    great snow everywhere...beautifl day

     

    danz

  6. hey telechick...

     

    I just got back from a fun day in Kagura yesterday...here is my advice

     

    if you have skins for your teles....avalanche gear and awareness....and a buddy, than by all means get a kagura pass...there is simply an insane amount of terrain accessible from kagura...huge faces of varying steepness kind of taunt you as you ride the lifts there....

     

    if you just plan on riding in-bounds, than not sure a pass would be worth it (well...depends on cost of course...)

     

    danz

  7. all of this really falls in the realm of psycho-acoustics more than anything...and that is a very subjective science at the best...

     

    Just because SACD records at a higher bit-rate does not neccessarily mean that it has a significant increase in psycho-acoustic information, which in my opinion, is much more important. If kamos stats are right, 2.8MHz is waaaaay beyond the capabilities of the human ear. Sunrise has good points relating to how we "feel" the music (like warmth...). Unfortuntaley, the "psycho" part in psychoacoustics makes all this a wash...

     

    My guess is that for an "average" ear listening through an "average" sound system, they would probably not be able to hear the difference between normal cd and sacd. How many people here can tell the difference between 128kb/s and 256 kb/s mp3s?? Psychoacoustically speaking ,that is a much bigger step than 44.1khz cd to 2.8MHz sacd.

     

    my .02

     

    danz

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