Various Artists Elac: Celebrating 95 Years Of Elac UHQCD

Ultimate HiQuality CD!
Loudspeakers convey an important dimension of life: music. Between the extremes of the quiet contemplativeness of some classic pieces and the powerful volume of a home cinema backdrop, the desire for authentic reproduction is united. Reproduction of highs and lows far beyond the limits of human hearing makes sound tangible. ELAC stands for the promise to produce the best possible sound from devices of all kinds.
ELAC is driven by advanced technologies, uncompromising quality and its unique sound.
This is also the motto of this album: special recordings of various musical genres from different continents, specially compiled by ELAC for the celebration of their 95th birthday jubilee. To best transmit this musical experience, the cutting has been made with 45RPM using the DMM process and 180-gr. virgin vinyl for the pressing.
ELAC - The life of sound.
To best transmit this musical experience, a U-HQCD (Ultimate HiQuality CD) is used as sound carrier. Anewly developed disc manufacturing process masks the sound quality of U-HQCD closer to the masterquality. U-HQCDs are fully compatible with all standard CD players.
The package consists of a complex media book.
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!

Features:

• U-HQCD (Ultimate HighQuality CD)
• Playable on Conventional CD Players
• Complex Media Book
• Special recordings of different musical genres from different continents specially compiled by ELAC to celebrate the 95th anniversary

Selections:

1. Fink - Trouble's What You're In
2. Agnes Obel - Riverside
3. Ryland Angel & David Merritt - Psalm 114
4. Vocal Sampling - Hotel California
5. Opiuo feat. D-Sens - La Fong
6. Natalie Merchant - The Peppery Man
7. John Rutter - Requiem: Pie Jesu
8. Rodrigo y Gabriela - Hanuman
9. Anette Askvik - Liberty
10. Friend'n Fellow - Me & Mrs. Jones
11. Brenda Navarrete - Baba Elegguá