Gold Compact Disc
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A gold CD is one in which gold is used in place of the super pure aluminium commonly used as the reflective coating on ordinary CDs or silver on ordinary CD-Rs
The high fidelity usually associated with gold CDs is actually a result of the remastering process and not of the gold coating itself. Gold CDs can be played in any CD player. Blank gold CD-Rs are also available. They can be recorded in any CD recorder and played in any CD player (with the exception of a few older units that can not read the less-reflective gold layer).[citation needed]
Lift-lock cases [edit]
Many gold CDs, including those from Mobile Fidelity, are packaged in lift-lock cases, a special type of case where the CD is lifted out of the case automatically and a latch unlocked when opened. The advantage of this design is that only the edges of the disc are handled when removing it from the case, and the disc is never subjected to any bending force while removing it. From the outside, they appear almost identical to a standard jewel case. They have the same dimensions as a standard jewel case, and use standard booklets and back cards.
Examples [edit]
- ABBA - Gold: Greatest Hits
- Al Stewart - Last Days of the Century
- Blondie - Parallel Lines
- Blood, Sweat & Tears - Child Is Father to the Man
- Jimmy Buffett - Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes
- Jimmy Buffett - Son of a Son of a Sailor
- Jimmy Buffett - Songs You Know by Heart
- Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited
- Bob Dylan - Blonde on Blonde
- The Doors - Strange Days
- The Eagles - Hell Freezes Over
- Michael Jackson - Dangerous (First Prints of album)
- Michael Jackson - Thriller (2001 Special Edition)
- Elton John - Elton John's Greatest Hits
- Enya - The Memory of Trees (Japanese limited edition)
- Jefferson Airplane - Surrealistic Pillow
- Jethro Tull - Aqualung
- John Coltrane - Blue Train
- John Coltrane and Paul Quinichette - Cattin' with Coltrane and Quinichette
- John Lennon - Imagine
- Nirvana - Nevermind
- Nirvana - In Utero
- Pat Benatar - In the Heat of the Night
- Pink Floyd - The Dark Side of the Moon
- Pink Floyd - The Wall
- The Police - Ghost in the Machiine
- R.E.M. - Murmur
- Red Hot Chili Peppers - Mother's Milk
- Counting Crows - August and Everything After
- Metallica - Master of Puppets
- The Who - Who's Next
- Paul & Linda McCartney - Ram
- Yuridia - Entre Mariposas
