Japanese vs Domestic CD s

in my first post, i did not count xrcd's or xrcd2's as "japanese" cd's. while they are, in fact, pressed by victor of japan, they appear to be "american" products (most are produced by the likes of winston ma and chad kassem & they don't even have those cool japanese lyric sheets). i've yet to meet an xrcd i didn't like, at least in terms of sound quality.

cornfed, if your into jazz check out Fantasy's Prestige and Riverside 20-bit cds remasters of classics. they licence the xrcd technology but don't charge the big bucks.

I was refering to current popular type releases that are available domestically vs Japanese ones usually found at Tower or Virgin for $26+. I too have found that the Japanese stuff looks higher in quality if you look at the data side of the cd. The data side looks cleaner than US counterparts. And Cornfed, nothing beats finding OBI wrapped vinyl, so COOL!

Wirehead, so the K2's put out by fantasy on Prestige and Riverside are the XRCD process, I knew they were related somehow but wasn't sure if they were identical? Well, in either case they great finds, far better than the RVG's on Blue Note in my opinion. Has anyone seen or heard any Japanese Blue Note stuff?

Prfont, I was told by a specialty dealer that the special edition remasters are the same as XRCD and if you look at the back covers you will see that they have licenced "something" from JVC. Hope this helps