Limited Japan Edition UHQCD MQA Papersleeve Hi‑Res
Geffen Records 26. January 2022 Japan
The fourth album Asia Then & Now was a compilation of the band's early hits with a few new songs. Five years after the Astra album, the compilation revisited old successes with hits like Heat of the Moment and Only Time Will Tell and delighted fans with the anthemic Days Like These. The abbreviation UHQCD stands for Ultimate High Quality Compact...
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| Title | Then & Now LTD |
| Artist | Asia |
| More info | Limited Japan Edition UHQCD MQA Papersleeve Hi‑Res |
| Format | CD |
| Labels | Geffen Records |
| Country of issue | Japan |
| Date of publication | 26. January 2022 |
| First released | 1990 |
| Weight | 85 g |
| EAN | 4988031471999 |
| Product ID | 152151 |
| Discogs ID | 21943741 |
| Discogs reviews |
4.25
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Asia: Then & Now LTD version on CD in Remastered limited edition. This particular edition was published in Japan in publishing company Geffen Records on 26. January 2022.
The fourth album Asia Then & Now was a compilation of the band's early hits with a few new songs. Five years after the Astra album, the compilation revisited old successes with hits like Heat of the Moment and Only Time Will Tell and delighted fans with the anthemic Days Like These. The abbreviation UHQCD stands for Ultimate High Quality Compact Disc and is a joint development between Japanese CD replication company Memory-Tech and Hong Kong's Audio Quality CD Company. Unlike conventional CDs, UHQCDs are not pressed from polycarbonate, but cast from photopolymer and cured with UV light. To protect the softer photopolymer from scratches, an additional layer of high-purity polycarbonate is applied. The result of this combination is a significant reduction in laser light reflection inside the CD and an unparalleled precise edge transition between the pits and the CD soils. UHQCDs are 100% compatible with conventional CD players. Musically, the result is a sound image strongly reminiscent of analog master tapes. In addition, the discs offered by Universal Japan are encoded with MQA (Master Quality Authenticated) technology. By outputting a digital signal from the digital output of a CD player or a previously ripped data stream from a music server to the appropriate MQA-DA converter, you can generate a 24-bit signal from CD data with a sampling rate of up to 352 Khz. While Universal Music Japan's first series of UHQCDs used DSD data from previous SHM-SACD releases, with its growing popularity, albums that were not previously released as SHM-SACDs are now appearing. Universal Archive master tapes are usually converted to DSD and then processed using the appropriate MQA encoder. UHQCDs are therefore ideal for music lovers who want to get as close to the sound of the recording as possible but do not own a SACD player.
Album spans genres Rock, Progressive rock and Symphonic Rock. Papersleeve Uhq & CD Hi Res UhqCD Mqa Limited Edition.
The fourth album Asia Then & Now was a compilation of the band's early hits with a few new songs. Five years after the Astra album, the compilation revisited old successes with hits like Heat of the Moment and Only Time Will Tell and delighted fans with the anthemic Days Like These. The abbreviation UHQCD stands for Ultimate High Quality Compact Disc and is a joint development between Japanese CD replication company Memory-Tech and Hong Kong's Audio Quality CD Company. Unlike conventional CDs, UHQCDs are not pressed from polycarbonate, but cast from photopolymer and cured with UV light. To protect the softer photopolymer from scratches, an additional layer of high-purity polycarbonate is applied. The result of this combination is a significant reduction in laser light reflection inside the CD and an unparalleled precise edge transition between the pits and the CD soils. UHQCDs are 100% compatible with conventional CD players. Musically, the result is a sound image strongly reminiscent of analog master tapes. In addition, the discs offered by Universal Japan are encoded with MQA (Master Quality Authenticated) technology. By outputting a digital signal from the digital output of a CD player or a previously ripped data stream from a music server to the appropriate MQA-DA converter, you can generate a 24-bit signal from CD data with a sampling rate of up to 352 Khz. While Universal Music Japan's first series of UHQCDs used DSD data from previous SHM-SACD releases, with its growing popularity, albums that were not previously released as SHM-SACDs are now appearing. Universal Archive master tapes are usually converted to DSD and then processed using the appropriate MQA encoder. UHQCDs are therefore ideal for music lovers who want to get as close to the sound of the recording as possible but do not own a SACD player.
Album spans genres Rock, Progressive rock and Symphonic Rock. Papersleeve Uhq & CD Hi Res UhqCD Mqa Limited Edition.
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