Record Grading in Japan: Where Uncertainty Begins

Описание: When a record store grades a record, it is not describing how it sounds.
It is deciding how much uncertainty it is willing to leave unresolved.

This film focuses on independent record stores in Japan and why grading exists at all—not as a technical system, but as a response to risk, subjectivity, and mismatched expectations between buyer and seller.

Independent shops do not grade because they believe in perfect standards.
They grade because they sell used objects to people with different tolerances.

Some buyers accept surface noise.
Some don’t.
Some inspect carefully.
Some trust the store completely.

Grading is an attempt to narrow that gap before money changes hands.
It is not a promise.
It is a boundary.

This video does not explain grading scales or compare systems.
It examines intent—why independent sellers make the choices they do, and what grading is actually trying to prevent.

This is the fourth film in an ongoing series examining record grading in Japan through trust, context, and behavior rather than rules.

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