{"id":3398,"date":"2026-05-15T12:26:34","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T03:26:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kanai.net\/weblog\/?p=3398"},"modified":"2026-05-27T15:13:38","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T06:13:38","slug":"electro-voice-mics-are-3x-the-price-in-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kanai.net\/weblog\/2026\/05\/electro-voice-mics-are-3x-the-price-in-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"Electro-voice mics are 3X the price in Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sweetwater.com\/store\/detail\/RE20--electro-voice-re20-broadcast-microphone-with-variable-d\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.sweetwater.com\/store\/detail\/RE20--electro-voice-re20-broadcast-microphone-with-variable-d\">Sweetwater<\/a> and B&amp;H sell the Electrovoice RE20 for $400.<br><br>Soundhouse in Japan sells the same RE 20 for 200,000 JPY. Which is around $1200 US.<br><br>This yen price is insane.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kanai.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-27-at-15.13.02.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"416\" src=\"https:\/\/kanai.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-27-at-15.13.02-1024x416.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3401\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kanai.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-27-at-15.13.02-1024x416.png 1024w, https:\/\/kanai.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-27-at-15.13.02-300x122.png 300w, https:\/\/kanai.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-27-at-15.13.02-768x312.png 768w, https:\/\/kanai.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-27-at-15.13.02-1536x625.png 1536w, https:\/\/kanai.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-27-at-15.13.02-1200x488.png 1200w, https:\/\/kanai.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-27-at-15.13.02.png 1638w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kanai.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-15-at-12.21.24.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"354\" height=\"318\" src=\"https:\/\/kanai.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-15-at-12.21.24.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3399\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kanai.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-15-at-12.21.24.png 354w, https:\/\/kanai.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-15-at-12.21.24-300x269.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 354px) 100vw, 354px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sweetwater and B&amp;H sell the Electrovoice RE20 for $400. Soundhouse in Japan sells the same RE 20 for 200,000 JPY. Which is around $1200 US. This yen price is insane.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gizmo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kanai.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kanai.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kanai.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kanai.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kanai.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kanai.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kanai.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kanai.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kanai.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}