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mekduk said:
SACD Hunter always posted that low price of 31USD but never mentioned where to get them.
Esoteric SACDs (single disc title) had been sold in Japan at list price JPY3300, ca USD32 (excluding tax 3143, ca USD31) since the first 4 releases (TDGD-90013, ESSD-90014, ESSD-90015 and ESSD-90016) in 2008. Japan have raised consumption tax rate from 4% to 8% on April 1, 2014. Therefore, the price including new consumption tax is now JPY3394, ca USD33, but the price excluding tax remain the same.
In Japan the Esoteric SACDs are available from some physical stores and their online stores, such as Diskunion, Joshin and Yodobashi. But their websites are in Japanese and do not ship overseas. The only one I found who can ship to countries outside Japan is Stereo Sound Store. However, not all of the Esoteric titles can be shipped overseas, only some of them, such as ESSG/D-90089-97 (9 discs, JPY27771 / 25714) 4 Great Operas on Deutsche Grammophon & Decca, ESSD-90086 Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition / Night on the Bare Mountain, ESSD-90084 Brahms: Piano Concerto No.2, ESSE-90082 Bartok: Concerto for Orchestra / Music for Strings, Percussion & Celeste, ESSE-90081 Bruckner: Symphony No.4, ESSE-90072-80 (9 discs, JPY27771 / 25714) Karajan & Callas - 4 Great Operas, ESSE-90071 Holst: The Planets, ESSW-90069 Tchaikovsky / Glazunov - Violin Concertos, ESSE-90068 Mahler Symphony No.1 and ESSS-90056 Handel: The Wind Instrument Sonatas, etc. Stereo Sound Store ship international orders via EMS. The consumption tax is not charged, JPY3143, ca USD31 for single disc titles. The shipping rate can be found on their website.
As Esoteric SACDs are limited edition, most titles sold out quickly in these stores, sometimes within one month.
I usually purchase Esoteric SACDs from above-mentioned websites and have them shipped to the Chinese Embassy to Japan in Tokyo. My colleagues bring them to me when they travel between the two cities. I also bought a lot in stores of Ishimaru (now closed) and Diskunion in Tokyo when I was there several times for international conferences.
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