"Woody" wrote in message
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"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.


Especially in little, hatchback cars....


One note bass it might have been but nonetheless if it boomed it sold.


Still does.



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.


Enter the 'firewood horns' to save the day - note most modern designs are
from Europeans, most notably Germans....



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.


There is more BS talked about concerts here than anything else - the one
thing you can't get (indoors or out) is a heavy, palpable bass at any
distance from the source, so why choose speakers that produce it...??


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.


Well said - I'd buy that (well, most of it) for a dollar!

Stupid, thick, blurry *pistonic* bass may well keep the Chavs happy, but it
has no place in a decent 'audio system' in my book!