"Adrian C" wrote in message
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Serge Auckland wrote:


Keith, it's called Marketing...on the US ones it has "American sound
tuned" on them, on the Japanese ones it has "Japanese sound tuned", on
the ................

Would love to be proved wrong, and there really is a difference.

Addition of European required RF immunity components, and so special
tuning required to avoid the detrimental sound effects of?

In days of old, Japanese products sold here had the speakers supplied by
an English manufacturer - stated reason then was the difference in the
type of music played east and west with regard to tonal range, and the jap
speakers not being suitable?


Other reasons were the odd and complicated trading restrictions placed on
various imports after the war until way into the 60s and 70s (I believe) and
also that shipping relatively low value/high volume (in the dimensional
sense) halfway round the world wasn't too peachy in the days before modern,
container shipping.

In the same vein - there were a great number of 'high end' models of 'hifi
equipmen' from the various Jap manufactureres that never found their way
into Brit shops back then. If you knew of and wanted a top of the range
amplifier/tape deck/whatever you had to get it from someone on one of the
many Yank airbases here in East Anglia!

(It's not for nowt the local 'hifi' shop which I wuz in today for the first
time in a couple of years and which was founded back in those days is called
AN Audio - 'Anglo Nippon Audio!! ;-)