Guo Yazhi Sorrow Of The River UHQCD

Japanese Import UHQCD + MQA-CD!
Playable on any CD player, the Ultimate High Quality CD greatly surpasses all previous CDs before it!
Guo Yazhi is considered one of the best suona players worldwide. The woodwind instrument from Central Asia, which is similar to the Western oboe, plays a significant role in northern Chinese folk music and is characterized by its powerful, very loud sound. Todd Garfinkle of MA Recordings was able to win the exceptional musician for this recording in 2007 and released "Sorrow of the River" for the first time on his Californian label in 2010. In addition to the suona, Guo Yazhi plays other exotic reed instruments, accompanied by the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra.
This album is a gem for anyone interested in Chinese culture. The most accessible to Western ears is probably the duet "Reflection of Moon Upon Er Quan" with He Tao, in which Guo plays soprano saxophone. Audiophile listeners will rejoice in "The Marriage Journey" with a thunderous, low-frequency drum that can shake windows. The eponymous "Sorrow of the River" is one of the most recognizable pieces of Chinese traditional music. Guo plays the softer-sounding Guan for this track.
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Many years have passed since the birth of the Audio Compact Disc (CD) back in 1982. By use of High-Quality materials and a totally different manufacturing method, the definitive version of audiophile audio CD was born. Playable on any CD player, the Ultimate High Quality CD greatly surpasses all previous CDs before it!
The Ultimate High Quality CD (UHQCD):
UHQCD is a radical change to the CD manufacturing process itself. The conventional wisdom about CD manufacturing, which had remained largely unchanged across the world for over 30 years, has been exhaustively questioned. Through this effort, the ultimate in quality was attained - a level of quality that is certainly impossible to achieve with existing CD discs.
The Ultimate High Quality CD was developed through an effort to improve audio quality by simply upgrading the materials used in ordinary CDs to higher quality materials. For the substrate a high-transparency and high-fluidity polycarbonate (a type of plastic) of the type used for LCD panels was used, while for the reflective layer, low-cost, common aluminum was replaced with a unique and expensive alloy of high-reflectivity.
Differences in manufacturing methods:
Conventional CDs are produced using the technique of injection molding to form "pits" of data on polycarbonate material. Metal plate on which "pits" representing audio source data are formed is used as a die. This is called the "stamper." Polycarbonate is melted at high temperature and poured into the die to duplicate the pit patterns on the stamper.
This method is efficient because it enables high-speed production, but it does not enable totally accurate or complete duplication of the pits on the stamper. As a melted plastic, polycarbonate is inevitably viscous, so it cannot penetrate completely into every land and groove of the tiny pits of the stamper.

The Ultimate High Quality CD photopolymer is used instead of polycarbonate to replicate the pits of the stamper. In their normal state, photopolymers are liquids, but one of their characteristic properties is that they harden when exposed to light of certain wavelengths. The advantage of this property, perfect replication of very finely detailed pits was achieved. Photopolymers in the liquid state are able to penetrate into the tiniest corners of pits on the stamper so that the pattern of the pits is reproduced to an extremely high level of accuracy. The Ultimate High Quality CD reproduces audio with greater precision and at a level that is impossible to achieve using conventional CD production technology!
Packaged in an XRCD-like luxury digipak complete with full color CD booklet.

Features:

• Ultimate High Quality CD + MQA-CD
• MQA Direct from 24bit 176.4kHz
• Remastered by Kazuie Sugimoto at JVC Mastering Center
• Made in Japan
• Superior Crystal Sound
• XRCD-Like Luxury Digipak
• Playable on conventional CD players

Selections:

1. The Marriage Journey
2. Sorrow of the River
3. Birds Pay Tribute to the Phoenix
4. Love For My Homeland
5. Three Variations on Yang Guan
6. Chit Chat
7. Reflection of Moon Upon Er Quan
8. Lovers Lingering
9. Chinese Folk Melodies
10. Vibration of the Corrupted Line
11. Liberation
12. Sailing at Night