I may be wrong about this, and it's pure supposition, but I suspect that Japanese manufacturers no longer enjoy as healthy a share of the UK headphone market as once they did, led from the front by Sony. Perhaps among average buyers of audio products the familiar Japanese names still have kudos, despite the rise of brands like Skullcandy, but in the audiophile arena they've been eclipsed - in terms of column-inches at least - by newcomers such as Audeze and Oppo and those speaker manufacturers who've added headphones to their inventory to cut a slice of the action.
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