Japanese company develops new kind of audio CD (”HQCD”)
- July 15th, 2008
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Memory Tech, an optical disc maker from Japan, will start to produce a new kind of audio CD from August. The news discs are supposedly able to deliver higher sound quality than existing CDs.
According to Japanese newspaper reports, the company announced they will manufacture 2 million CDs of their so called HQCDs per month. Compared to conventional audio CDs, production costs are five times higher. Instead of aluminum, Memory Tech uses self-developed silver alloy to coat their HQCDs.
Aimed at fans of Jazz and classical music, the new discs will hit Japanese stores in September. It is yet unclear whether the HQCDs will be offered outside Japan as well.
Memory Tech is mainly known as a provider of recording media in this country. As of now, the company web site [JP] doesn’t offer any information on the new product.
Tomas Nilsson
2008-07-15 08:16:10
Changing the type of materials used for manufacturing the CD without changing the format of the songs (ie, pcm/wav) is a scam.
As long as a CD is without errors, the song will always sound exactly the same regardless if the cd costs $0.5 or $50 (because the 10010101 on one cd will ofcourse be 10010101 on another cd)…
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gi joe
2008-07-15 08:35:02
True, but I am very close to perfecting my High Definition 8 track player (HD8T) which will really impress!
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