A gold compact disc is one in which gold is utilized in place of the high-purity aluminium or silver commonly used as the reflective coating on ordinary CDs and CD-Rs respectively. Gold disks are available as both CDs and CD-Rs as well, and are compatible with standard players and recorders.
The advantage of the gold reflection layer lies in its corrosion resistance. As such, gold CDs were seen as a potential solution to the incidence of CD rot on early CDs (mainly manufactured by PDO UK).[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]
In 2016, the Australian division of Sony Music began reissuing budget-priced (under $10) gold CDs issues under the "Gold Series" branding.
Examples
edit- Al Stewart - Last Days of the Century
- Aphex Twin - Chosen Lords
- 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
editReferences
edit- ^ "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
edit- "24K+ Gold CD Series". Discogs. Retrieved 2019-05-19.