Bummer....JVC XRCD no' mo'

TheChairGuy · « **on:** 1 Oct 2005, 02:27 am »

From Music Direct newsletter today....

JVC U.S. Closing Its Doors...This Could Be Your Last Chance to get JVC XRCDs.

We regret to announce that in April of 2006, the U.S. JVC XRCD offices will officially close their doors forever. The sound quality of the XRCD series is legendary and no doubt many of these discs will end up as collector's items. Now is your last chance to fill-out your collection at a great price before these end up on eBay for much more!

If they were more competitively priced than they were, maybe they would have survived. I always blanched at the $25+ pricing....typically twice as high as sale priced 'regular' music.

Perhaps on the way out they'll be some deals goin' on

Zero · « **Reply #1 on:** 1 Oct 2005, 03:50 am »

I know nothing of this - and hope this is just a very cruel april fools joke..

PhilNYC · « **Reply #2 on:** 1 Oct 2005, 04:09 am »

There was an article in The Absolute Sound two or three months ago that mentioned something about JVC closing down XRCD in the US...looks like there's some truth to it...

Fife12 · « **Reply #3 on:** 1 Oct 2005, 08:50 am »

Ouch. Its going to be EXTRA costly to get them oversears now!

corwin99 · « **Reply #4 on:** 5 Oct 2005, 06:32 pm »

That really sucks. XRCD is VERY popular in Asia... perhaps that will be where it all comes from soon.

PhilNYC · « **Reply #5 on:** 5 Oct 2005, 06:53 pm »

As mentioned in another thread, I traded emails with someone at JVC XRCD US, and I was told that Music Direct never confirmed their story prior to sending out that newsletter. At the moment, no final decisions have been made about what is going to happen to JVC XRCD US...but JVC will definitely continue to make XRCDs in Japan. Perhaps they are just going to work with an existing importer instead of managing their own?

SWG255 · « **Reply #6 on:** 5 Oct 2005, 09:55 pm »

Geez, what was wrong with my earlier thread on this topic here in The Music Circle?

http://www.audiocircle.com/index.php?topic=21919

Quote from: PhilNYC

As mention
ed in another thread, I traded emails with someone at JVC XRCD US, and I was told that Music Direct never confirmed their story prior to sending out that newsletter. At the moment, no final decisions have been made about what is going to happen to JVC XRCD US...but JVC will definitely continue to make XRCDs in Japan. Perhaps they are just going to work with an existing importer instead of managing their own?

TheChairGuy · « **Reply #7 on:** 6 Oct 2005, 12:17 am »

Quote from: SWG255

Geez, what was wrong with my earlier thread on this topic here in The Music Circle?

http://www.audiocircle.com/index.php?topic=21919

Nuthin' wrong SWG....if you look at the two posts on this same subject, I beat you to the punch on XRCD's by about 14 hours on Friday, September 30. So, now we gots 2 topics on quite nearly the same dang thing.

Great minds think alike

Ciao/chow.

SWG255 · « **Reply #8 on:** 6 Oct 2005, 12:55 am »

I think the real tragedy in this is that Music Direct thinks they're doing us a real favor by reducing only the $25.99 discs by a whole $0.99 on lots of 4 discs. If they really want to move some of these discs, they should discount them more than that.

I'm disturbed by the trend to jack up prices as soon as there are rumors that something will be discontinued. Case in point was the recent price GOUGING on the Rolling Stones SACDs as soon as word got out that Avco was going back to standard redbook for them. Avco was not exactly on the up and up either, the Stones redbook CDs proclaim "Remastered in DSD" on the covers, but don't have any SACD logos anywhere else on them, and in fact these discs in standard CD jewel cases are just that, standard redbook discs. I got one from Tower Records online, because the folks in their shipping department thought it was the SACD I ordered. Tower did make good on my return of the disc for a store credit, but even the record store folks are confused by the packaging.

I'm glad there are still some really great music deals out there, like the RCA Living Presence SACDS.

Quote from: TheChairGuy

Quote from: SWG255
Geez, what was wrong with my earlier thread on this topic here in The Music Circle?

http://www.audiocircle.com/index.php?topic=21919

Nuthin' wrong SWG....if you look at the two posts on this same subject, I beat you to the punch on XRCD's by about 14 hours on Friday, September 30. So, now we gots 2 topics on quite nearly the same dang thing.

Great minds think alike

Ciao/chow.