Various Artists Thorens: Tribute To A Legend UHQCD

Ultimate HiQuality CD!
Thorens' personal favorite tracks will bring pure listening pleasure. These tracks have accompanied long periods of private and professional life. The album features recordings from the '70s, '80s and '90s, but also very recent productions, because an interest in and enthusiasm for music doesn't just stop at some point, especially not if you can enjoy it with the very best hi-fi technology.
This album is intended to celebrate one turntable in particular: the TD-124 is the epitome of everything that makes Thorens so unique, admirable and desirable.
Let yourself be taken on a journey through a personal record collection. Discover the sonic peculiarities and moods that await discovery from track to track. You'll discover great test tracks: Thorens has emphasized authentic timbres and the greatest possible dynamics during mastering. What you can expect is exciting music, lots of variety - even if the basic genre is jazz in the broadest sense - and always a bit of a technical as well as a musical challenge.
To best transmit this musical experience, a U-HQCD (Ultimate HiQuality CD) is used as sound carrier. A newly developed disc manufacturing process masks the sound quality of U-HQCD closer to the master quality. 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!
"Category of listening pleasure.​" - Stereoplay, February 2022

Features:

• U-HQCD (Ultimate HighQuality CD)
• Playable on Conventional CD Players
• Complex Media Book
• The personal Thorens favorites bring pure listening pleasure

Selections:

1. Jazzrausch - Dancing Wittgenstein
2. Fela Kuti - Let's Star
3. Wolfgang Haffner - Shapes
4. Chuck Mangione - Leonardo's Lady
5. The Monty Alexander Trio - Feelings
6. Tokunbo - New June
7. Ingram Washington - What a Difference a Day Makes
8. Youn Sun Nah - Lento
9. Concha Buika - Volver Volver
10. Chantal Chamberland - Temptation
11. Charlie Rouse - You Don't Know What Love Is
12. The Sonny Clark Memorial Quartet - Cool Struttin'
13. Count Basie & His Orchestra - 88 Basie Street