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Hideo Takada, General Manager of the JVC's Recording & Engineering Division discusses the acoustical characteristics of Studio 302. Takada-san has 37 years of experience in sound recording and judging by his youthful appearance, it's a great line of work!

We saw several studios within JVC's Aoyama facility. Each has its own unique acoustical properties and features. This one, studio 401, has a wood floor and the top of its two story high walls are also adorned in wood.

There are countless major music studios that have not transitioned successfully to the Digi-Tools age of computers. JVC Victor is not one of them. Getting into their elevator for a music tour, a philosophy that will become clearer as the tour continues is printed on the inside of the elevator so that all visitors and employees can read and remember it in moments when nothing else might be going on.

If only it were that easy.

Google won't let me get to www.google.com. It forces me to www.google.co.jp when I use my Mozilla Firefox browser.

I remember Luxman products fondly. In the eighties, they had a classy look and feel that set them apart from many of their Japanese counterparts.

The blue packaging used for BluRay releases in the US market is skipped in Japan.