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Japanese vs Domestic CD s

Wondering what others expericence sound quality of Japanese manufactured CDS vs others. Being a big vinyl collector, I have found that Japanese vinyl is far superior to standard issues. With the Japanese stuff you get extra tracks and cool packaging as well.
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prfont
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My only experience is with the Prestige and Riverside re-issues done with K2 processing. These are excellent and contain tons of warmth and atmosphere. The Tower(downtown) here in NYC stocks quite of few of these and whenever I'm feeling flush, I pick up a few. As a jazz freak, they are a godsend. Recently i picked up "Everybody Digs Bill Evans" and while my vinyl is now in a different locale, I don't think this gives up too much musically. (see my post under Solo piano recordings)
prfont
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If its not clear from the above post, I'm refering to the Japanese Imports. Some of the K2 mastered stuff is appearing on US releases, but so far, different titles so I haven't been able to compare apples etc....
prfont
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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?
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