A gold compact disc is one in which gold is used in place of the super pure aluminium commonly used as the reflective coating on ordinary CDs or silver on ordinary CD-Rs.
Gold CDs can be played in any CD player. Blank gold CD-Rs are also available. They can be recorded in any CD recorder and played in any CD player.
The advantage of the gold reflection layer is its increased resistance to corrosion, in contrast to the ordinary aluminium layer found on normal compact discs. Due to concerns over the incidence of CD rot on early CDs (mainly manufactured by PDO UK), gold CDs were thus seen as a potential solution.[1]
In 2014, Audio Fidelity, an American publisher of audiophile CDs, announced that it was abandoning the gold format and moving to the hybrid Super Audio CD (SACD) format for future releases. [2]
Since 2016, the Australian division of Sony Music have been reissuing back catalogue CDs as budget-priced (under $10) issues with gold CDs under the "Gold Series" branding.
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Examples
- Al Stewart - Last Days of the Century
- Blondie - Parallel Lines
- Blood, Sweat & Tears - Child Is Father to the Man
- Bryan Adams - Reckless
- Counting Crows - August and Everything After
- David Bowie
- Jimmy Buffett
- Bob Dylan
- The Doors - Strange Days
- The Eagles - Hell Freezes Over
- Joe Jackson
- Michael Jackson
- Elton John - Elton John's Greatest Hits
- Enya - The Memory of Trees (Japanese limited edition)
- Jefferson Airplane - Surrealistic Pillow
- Jethro Tull - Aqualung
- Jean-Michel Jarre
- John Coltrane - Blue Train
- John Coltrane and Paul Quinichette - Cattin' with Coltrane and Quinichette
- John Lennon - Imagine
- Metallica - Master of Puppets
- Nirvana
- Pat Benatar - In the Heat of the Night
- Paul & Linda McCartney - Ram
- Pink Floyd
- Sonny Rollins - Sonny Rollins and the Contemporary Leaders
- The Police
- R.E.M.
- Red Hot Chili Peppers - Mother's Milk
- Sagarika -
- The Who
- Yuridia - Entre Mariposas
- Zubeen Garg - Sparsh
See also
- Compact disc
- Enhanced CD
- Remastering
- CD rot
- Gold album
- Audiophile
- Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab (MFSL)
- Super Audio CD
- Extended Resolution Compact Disc
References
- ^ "GOLD CDS - CD COLLECTING.COM". 2013-03-22. Archived from the original on 2013-03-22. Retrieved 2019-05-19.
- ^ Sinclair, Paul (March 4, 2014). "Audio Fidelity drop 24k Gold CDs". superdeluxeedition. Retrieved 2019-05-19.
External links
- "24K+ Gold CD Series". Discogs. Retrieved 2019-05-19.
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