Description: The audiophile passion in Japan for American high-end audio gear. Dive into key components that shaped the industry. Start your journey now!
Nobody loves the audiophile hobby more than the Japanese. They clamor for big-muscle from American audiophile components , and in some cases actually keep some of those high-end-niche companies in business. Our goal here is to take a look back at some of the most important audiophile components in the history of the audiophile business. There are so many. We will add more as time allows but this is a good first start.
There are so many items that one could pick for the list of best Japanese audiophile products but without a Technics turntable – we’d be failing. While hip-hop and rap was born with a pair of Technics turntables in effect – I am looking towards the Technics SP-10R direct drive turntable as our example for a record player for this Best Of List. At $10,990.00 this direct drive turntable is no entry level component. Introduced in 2016, this table is rock solid and comes with just gorgeous industrial design as
Moving away from the early, First Generation Compact Disc players was hard. Companies like California Audio Labs, Theta Digital, WADIA and Meridian helped along the way but in the more affordable space, the Rotel RCD-855 CD player was a major upgrade for the sound of any good, late-1980s audiophile system. Rotel gets credit for being a U.K. company but let’s call them what they really are which Japanese at their roots. This CD player was often paired with an Audio Alchemy DDE-1 DAC which also was quite affo