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Extreme hardglass CD

Hi, have you seen the advertisement for an extreme hardglass CD? You can be the owner of it for just $1,000. No kidding! I wonder why spending that much money into a "flawed" carrier (the "perfect sound forever" red book silver disc we all know) for perhaps 5% overall improvement in sound, while you can get a 30% improvement by doing the recording or remastering job in the right way (which is certainly not the case in many CD releases)? But I assume there will be people who will buy the disc (there are many rich audiophiles around you know). At least they will hear the famous Herbert von Karajan DGG recording of the Beethoven Ninth Symphony in glorious sound!
Btw, has any of you heard an extreme hardglass CD? If you have, please give us your impressions of the sound.

Chris
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kijanki
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What is the advertised purpose of it? If it's jitter reduction then there are other ways of handling that - like jitter suppressing upsampling DACs or players. I suspect that the reason might be longevity. It is probably not very important since any redbook CD can be copied (or reordered) and preserved in digital domain.

Chris - the sad part is that if they still exist they have sales.
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rja
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$1,000 is actually quite a bargain as these sell for 200,000Y in Japan which is about $2,000. 8^)
IMHO: That amount could be put to much better use but hey, what others do with their money is none of my business.
Still I have to admit, I'd like to hear one just out of curiosity.
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kijanki
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Rja - do you live in Japan? My nephew lives in Tokyo.
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