[Album] Japan's Superior Sound?

Originally Posted by LeHah

Once in a while, I buy import CDs. A lot of times its from one vendor from Japan. It always arrives quickly and in excellent condition and his prices are very reasonable - but I've noticed he's been posting blurbs about the sound quality on Japanese CDs. Namely "MANUFACTURED IN JAPAN FOR SUPERIOR SOUND"

To me, that sounds like empty buzzwords. Is there any truth to it at all? I can't imagine the mastering being any big improvement.

It's possible, I suppose, that the quality of Japanese mastering engineers is on average higher, or that Japanese mastering and stamping houses have access to better equipment.

What's likely is that this is yet more nationalistic Japanese bullshit. Just like how Japanese men claim that their penises get harder than the penises of other races. Yup, they literally do. Example:

Originally Posted by http://japundit.com/archives/2005/11/28/1601/

I’m a Japanese man in my 30’s and used to live in the USA for 10 years. I don’t really see the big difference between white men’s dick and Asians’ in terms of size. The size of average white men’s dick can be smaller than Asian’s dick. I would rather note that white men’s dick are much softer without a bone than Asian’s. I’m just telling the truth here. Asian’s dick gets much harder than white’s one. White women I slept with always told me that Asian’s dick are much harder than white men, and the size is not as small as some white men say.:lol:

Emphasis mine, emoticon his.

So yeah, yet more nationalistic Japanese bullshit.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Bigblah

What are you all bristling about, obviously he's assuring you guys that the disc wasn't manufactured or mastered by slave children in Taiwan or Bangladesh or Papua New Fucking Guinea.

Actually the disc and jewel case probably were made in one of those countries, and it was just stamped in Japan.

There's nowhere I can't reach.