Rare Earth Ecology UHQCD

The third studio album of the Detroit funk rockers "Rare Earth" contains two strong cover versions of great songs in addition to some originals: The Temptations hit "(I Know) I'm Loosing You", which went into the top ten, as well as a very worth listening to version of the Beatles classic "Eleanor Rigby". Released in 1970, the successful radio hit single "Long Time Leavin'" captured the zeitgeist of nomadic youth culture. "Ecology" is hailed by many as the band's strongest and most authentic album.
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. Born To Wonder
2. Long Time Leavin'
3. (I Know) I'm Loosing You
4. Satisfaction Guaranteed
5. Nice Place To Visit
6. No.1 Man
7. Eleanor Rigby
Bonus Tracks
8. When Joanie Smiles
9. Here Comes The Night
10. The Feeling
11. Child of Fortune
12. One World
13. (I Know) I'm Losing You
14. Satisfaction Guaranteed
15. Nice Place To Visit
16. Eleanor Rigby