Various Artists Clearaudio: 46 Years Excellence Edition UHQCD

Ultimate HiQuality CD!
46 Years of Clearaudio – The Anniversary Album!
46 years of Clearaudio: a milestone that stands for passion, innovation, and unparalleled sound quality. For nearly half a century, Clearaudio have shaped the world of analog music reproduction, driven by their enthusiasm for perfection and the desire to make music tangible in its purest form.
This anniversary is more than just a number. It reflects the love for music, technical sophistication, and the art of listening. 46 years of Clearaudio represent 46 years of dedication to the details – whether in the development of new technologies or in the preservation of the analog heritage. With this compilation, Clearaudio aims to celebrate these very values.
This anniversary album embodies everything Clearaudio stands for: uncompromising quality, masterful craftsmanship, and the ability to inspire people worldwide through music.
Music is more than sound. It is pure emotion.
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)
• Elaborate Mediabook
• Playable on Conventional CD Players
• Superb music, excellently recorded and played

Selections:

1. Nautilus – Ain't No Sunshine
2. Magnus Lindgren – Fluting
3. Hattler – Fine Days
4. Antoine Villoutreix – Les Boulevards de Paris (Club des Belugas remix)
5. Dominique Fils-Aimé – Stand By Me
6. Ronnie Earl & The Broadcasters – Six String Blessing
7. Yelena Eckemoff – Lions (Live in New York)
8. Sophie Zelmani – How It Feels
9. Wolfgang Bernreuther – Let's Try It Again
10. Mop Mop – Loa Chant (feat. Sara Sayed)
11. Raphael Gualazzi – Imagine (London Studio Version)
12. Tokunbo – Homecoming
13. Anne Bisson – September in Montreal
14. Lou Pomanti – Come Together
15. Malene Mortensen – Another Day