Japanese Audiophiles Are Going to Extremes
Japanese audiophiles are spending thousands of dollars on high-end stereo systems. Some are even installing private utility poles for a personal source of electricity, all in a quest for aural perfection. Photo: Juro Osawa/The Wall Street Journal
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Living inside my city’s power plant just to get the perfect fidelity for my bedroom trap mp3s changed my life.
somebody explain to me while this is so important to some people? I just can’t wrap my head around it
ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
Guess i know what im doing
I love this
That first guy is buying way too much into the snake oil
😂 Grandpa wins! Rock on!!!
go to a live concert it’s cheaper.
What a BS. Poor people
WSJ, this is f** too short! Make a full 1-hour documentary on this!!!!!
Yes extreme, but obsessed audiophile, yes indeed.
Thats a very depraved story.
He can’t have a women living like that…..or can’t keep one.
"My girlfriend" the guy is old enough to be a grandfather… jeez.
My man! What a hero
Not even showing us the music playing is borderline criminal
obsession is a disease
I call it an illness.
They would add much more to the listening experience by just adding a soundproof listening room.
so many people haven’t heard "good sound"
This is good, but this is not Ken Fritz good. Mr Fritz’s set up is still the gold standard.
Name of that turntable?
I love the passion for music of these wonderful people from Japan! ❤
I’m watching this using subtitles – without audio.
I don’t understand why the first guys speakers are soffit mounted, except with severe edge diffraction from being recessed into the wall. Anyone know?
he should have just plugged Car battery charger in the wall and connect the battery to a Inverter.
pure DC.
while one battery is supplying electricity, the other one is being charged. ez
You need electricity straight from lightning. Anything going through these lines is subpar.
It is certainly not about the music.
The problem, other houses will be on the same line
These guys consider themselves to be "audiophiles". The eldest here, at 82, can probably not even hear frequencies above 7 kHz. "Audiophile"???
meds, lol
ignorance is bliss. True, sharing a secondary on a pole transformer might put noise in your power, but just getting your own transformer on that pole should be enough. No need for a new pole!!
im searching for a video where a japanese guy gets two huge blue speakers delivered to his house. does anyone remeber that?
oof. dude could get the same quality for a hundredth of the price.
Classic Japanese always taking things up to eleven
I really do not think that the 82 old dude, still hears as well as he was young. It is a waste of time and money. If you want to be an audiiphile, first do an audiogram (ear check) to see how well you can hear. Otherwise it is spending the money in thin air.
And here i am, throwing RC-20 on all my productions to make it sound old LOL
So do non-Japanese audiophiles go to extremes. It’s the nature of folks passionately devoted to a hobby to spend ridiculous money and time on it. Some will spend multiple thousands of dollars for small or questionable improvements feeling that they’ll notice the differences over time. It’s true we do tend to notice small differences over long term listening than we do on brief exposure.
Imagine forcing an audiophile to use airpods for the rest of their lives
Tired of noise, yet uses a turntable… which is the worst for noise.
He has a girlfriend? Usually with audio devotees like him, it’s either….stuff or girlfriend.
The guy who’s living in the small apartment has his essential properties out of order.
super-capacitors make more sense as a clean source of power .
takeo morida, the retured attorney, has the will and the budget to experience these things for himself. very cool. the mans on a journey, and hes a helluva navigator to boot.
tá mas loco que yo el ponja ! jaja
At 82 years old how good can his hearing be?
Electricity is the blood of your system. Notice the absence of a digital front end. Vinyl still hasn’t been topped!
He goes through all that and doesn’t have a R2R
try "LAST" record treatment for your records. Makes the quieter and extends their life.
Dude went outside, listened the birds, and criticized their inability to produce crystal clear chirps.
99% of audiophiles are just needlessly obsessive.
What’s that turntable ?