It's been impossible to find an example of someone moving a large sound system to Japan on the expat forums. Maybe some of the folks here have moved sound systems across national borders.
I'm trying to get a ballpark estimate of what it costs to move about 1800lbs of speakers and 900lbs of amplifiers, plus a large mixing desk, recording studio gear and an electronics lab full of spectrum analyzers, curve tracers, 'scopes and various analyzers, to Japan.
On the general topic of moving households, I've read numbers from US to Australia ranging from $1350 to $20,000.
Aside from the sound system, which I built over a 38 year span of time, I have some pets, large parrots, that would be going with us.
I'm seeking to assess the cost of the physical move as one of many steps in the process of expatriating from the US.
I also need to sell my house in CT, buy land in rural Japan, find someone to build me a new home more suited to my audiophile needs, and to set up/transplant my vacuum tube audio repair business there.
Numerous hurdles to jump over. Trying to get my ducks in a row so that the move can take place in about 1 year.
I'm trying to get a ballpark estimate of what it costs to move about 1800lbs of speakers and 900lbs of amplifiers, plus a large mixing desk, recording studio gear and an electronics lab full of spectrum analyzers, curve tracers, 'scopes and various analyzers, to Japan.
On the general topic of moving households, I've read numbers from US to Australia ranging from $1350 to $20,000.
Aside from the sound system, which I built over a 38 year span of time, I have some pets, large parrots, that would be going with us.
I'm seeking to assess the cost of the physical move as one of many steps in the process of expatriating from the US.
I also need to sell my house in CT, buy land in rural Japan, find someone to build me a new home more suited to my audiophile needs, and to set up/transplant my vacuum tube audio repair business there.
Numerous hurdles to jump over. Trying to get my ducks in a row so that the move can take place in about 1 year.