Various Artists Reference Sampler Ultimate Hi Quality CD UHQCD

Japanese Import UHQCD!
Playable on any CD player, the Ultimate High Quality CD greatly surpasses all previous CDs before it!
This Ultimate Hi Quality CD Reference Sampler features Danny Boy by Jacintha and You've Got A Friend by Marcia Seebaran.
Hong Kong, despite its modest size, is a very active hi-fi market with enthusiastic audiophiles who love to compare different formats and masterings. This Reference Sampler enjoys great popularity. It contains audiophile recordings of very different kinds known in Hong Kong, which were remastered for Nano Music using the DSD process and then formed into a UHQCD in Japan by MemoryTech. The selection of music is almost exotic for European ears and yet sonically of very special charm.
All About Ultimate High Quality CD (UHQCD)
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:

• Made in Japan
• Superior Crystal Sound
• Ultimate High Quality CD
• XRCD-Like Luxury Digipak
• Playable on conventional CD players

Selections:

1. Cops and Robbers - Teddy Robin (male vocals in Cantonese)
2. Danny Boy - Jacintha (female vocals in English)
3. You've Got A Friend - Marcia Seebaran (female vocals in English)
4. Habanera from Carmen Fantasy - Lily Pan (female vocals in Mandarin)
5. Life Like a Drama - Bo Luk (male vocals in Cantonese)
6. Sealed with a Kiss - Anders Nelsson (male vocals in English, single-point recording in a church)
7. Forgettable - Johnny Ip (male singing in Cantonese, one-point recording in a church)
8. Red Candle - Amy Wu (female vocals in Cantonese, one-point recording in a church)
9. Knight's Sword - Jenny (female vocals in Cantonese)
10. Serenade, E. Toselli - Violin Solo: Lim Kek-Tjiang/Piano: Tjiok Else
11. Moon Light on Spring River - Pipa: Zhao Cong/Bamboo flute: Dai Yu/Erhu: Tang Feng/Strings: China National Traditional Orchestra/Chorus: Asian Philharmonic Chorous
12. Marriage - Suo-na (Chinese oboe): Guo Ya-zhi/Chinese Large Drum: Chow Chin-Tung
13. Meeting Again from Butterfly Love - Yam Kin Fai & Lee Bo Ying (Traditional Chinese Opera in Cantonese)