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RECENTLY I BOUGHT SOME XRCD'S (SEE MY FEEDBACK) PRESSED AND MADE IN HONG KONG. XRCD FROM DIRE STRAITS / EAGLES / ANDREA BOCELLI / KITARO AND SOME MORE.
PLAYING THEM ON MY PRIMARE AND TEAC TUBE SET I FOUND OUT THAT THESE SO CALLED XRCD'S ARE WORSE IN SOUND QUALITY.
DIRE STRAITS - BROTHERS IN ARMS: AT THE END OF EACH SONG AND THE BEGINNING OF THE NEXT (IN THE FADE OUT/FADE IN PART) THERE IS AN EXTREME AMOUNT OF BACK GROUND NOISE/HISS! TRACK 6 HISSES ALL THE WAY. THE (OVERALL) SOUND IS A BIT DUSTY AND FRAGILE. MY 'OLD' SILVER CD SOUNDS MUCH BETTER!
ANDREA BOCELLI - ROMANZA: THE WHOLE CD IS WRONG AND HISSES. SOME TRACKS LIKE 5 AND 6 ARE EXTREME. THIS TITLE WAS RECORDED YEARS AGO IN AMSTERDAM-NETHERLANDS, WHERE I LIVE. THE LOCAL RELEASE ON REGULAR CD SOUNDS FRESHER AND CLEARER!
KITARO - ESSENTIAL COLLECTION: WHOLE CD IS WRONG. TRACK 2, WHEN PLAYED A BIT LOUDER, HAS A 'HMMMM' SOUND, A LIKE A BAD EARTHED AMP! ALL OTHER TRACKS SOUND DUSTY AN FRAGILE. ALL NORMAL CD'S WHERE THESE TRACKS ARE TAKEN FROM DO SOUND MUCH BETTER.
ETC.
I CONTACTED JVC USA (Kevin, JVC Disc America, Co. kberg@atl.jvcdiscusa.com) AND HE TOLD ME THAT THESE JVC XRCD'S ARE ONLY MADE FOR THE HONG KONG MARKET AND POSSIBLY (!!) LEGIT! THEY'RE NOT EVEN SURE ABOUT THAT.
THERE ARE ALSO PRINTED MISTAKES IN THE BOOKLETS, FOUND ALMOST ONLY IN THOSE ASIAN 'RELEASES'.
* DIRE STRAITS: LAST PAGE "MRAK KNOPFLER" AND "B MARK K")
* KITARO: PAGE 3, CHINESE PAGE: "THE EXEENDED RESOLUTION" AND "U-rnmati"c 1630". YOU CAN THINK ABOUT IT WHAT YOU WANT BUT I HAVE MY DOUBTS....
SO IF YOU'RE LOOKING FOR GENUINE XRCD'S WITH THE BEST SOUND QUALITY YOU CAN FIND, BEWARE OF THOSE HONG KONG PRESSINGS, EASY TO RECOGNISE BY THE 'CHINESE XRCD STICKER' ON THE FRONT. THEY ARE SOLD ON EBAY WORLDWIDE, NOT ONLY BY ASIAN SELLERS.
SPENDING MUCH MONEY ON THE MUSIC YOU LIKE IS FINE, BUT THESE XRCD'S DO NOT MATCH THE XRCD STANDARDS MADE BY JVC. THAT'S MY HUMBLE OPPINION ....JUST TO INFORM YOU ABOUT IT :-)
