Rare Earth Live Chicago UHQCD

The second live album of the funk rockers "Rare Earth" was recorded in 1974 at the "Arie Crown Theater" in Chicago, but mysteriously had to wait several decades for its release. For the first time in 2014, fans were able to celebrate the show in their living room and were able to look forward to two extended versions of the classic "(I Know) I'm Losing You" and, of course, the epic "Get Ready". And in the now released Japanese pressing on UHQCD in brilliant sound quality, this is twice as much fun.
UHQCD stands for Ultimate High Quality Compact Disc and is a joint development of the Japanese CD replication company Memory-Tech and the Audio Quality CD Company from Hong Kong. Unlike conventional CDs, UHQCDs are not pressed from polycarbonate, but are cast from a photopolymer and cured with UV light. To protect the softer photopolymer from scratching, another layer of high-purity polycarbonate is applied. The combination results in a significantly reduced reflection of the laser light inside the CD and an unrivalled precise edge transition between pits and lands of the CD. UHQCDs are 100% compatible with normal CD players. Musically, the result is a sound that is strongly reminiscent of analogue master tapes.
The discs offered by Universal Japan are additionally encoded with MQA (Master Quality Authenticated). If you output the digital signal from the digital output of your CD player or the previously ripped data stream of your music server to a corresponding MQA-DA converter, you can generate a 24-bit signal with up to 352 Khz sampling frequency from the CD data.
While the first UHQCD series of Universal Music Japan used the DSD data of previous SHM-SACD releases, albums that had not previously been released as SHM-SACD are now also being released with increasing popularity. Typically, the master tapes of the Universal Archive are converted to DSD and then post-processed with the appropriate MQA encoder. Thus, the UHQCDs are ideal for music lovers who want to get as close as possible to the sound of the recording, but do not have an SACD player.

Selections:

1. Hey, Big Brother
2. Born To Wander
3. Big John Is My Name
4. Ma
5. (I Know) I'm Losing You (Pt. 1)
6. (I Know) I'm Losing You (Pt. 2)
7. I Just Want To Celebrate
8. Get Ready