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Super High Material

OK, here's another new one, SHM-CD being released in Japan. SHM = Super High Material (no jokes please), supposedly a superior quality polycarbonate with better clarity than standard CD. Laser gets cleaner read thus improving sonics. If you've heard one please post.
Are we beating a dead horse???
BTW: Looks like a number of excellent titles to be released in the next few months but as usual for Japanese only in limited edition.
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geoffkait
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TDK (I think it was) introduced high-transparency CD-Rs a few years ago as audiophile grade, not sure if they're still available. Don't recall the material, twasn't polycarbonate. Polycarbonate is not the most transparent material at wavelengths of interest.

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rja OP
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Geoff,
May not be polycarbonate, may have been an assumption on my part.
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Just received SHM-CDs of Steely Dan - Aja and John Coltrane - Ballads from Japan today. They are the best sounding versions of each that I have ever heard.
ghost_rider
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Rja, where are you getting these discs from?
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rja OP
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Ghostrider,
I've been buying Japanese CDs from these Japanese sources:
www.cdjapan.co.jp
www.mediawars.ne.jp/~mundo/cdjapan/link.html
These companies can supply CDs immediately on release.
Warning:Shipping costs can be very high!
Domestically, CD Universe usually has a nice selection of Japanese CDs.
www.jpophelp.com is a Canadian company that also specializes in Japanese CDs.
Hope this helps.
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