"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?



Which makes a bit of a nonsense that one of the best monitor
speakers ever made - the Yamaha NS1000 - was made in Japan and
imported complete!

For anyone who has the 'honour' of comparing British and Euro-fi
the most noticable thing I find is that we Brits like our bass.
One note bass it might have been but nonetheless if it boomed it
sold. Euro-fi tended (and still does to some extent) to veer
towards perceived clarity and stereo staging with much less
weight to the bass volume.

Perhaps they go to more live concerts in Europe that we thick
Brits so know what an orchestra/organ/choir/jazz group/singer
really sound like, rather than how we think we would like them to
sound.

Observation: Bose kit with its well known one-note bass sells
well over here despite being vastly over priced. You have to go
digging to find it in Germany.

I rest my case M'Lud.


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