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Jacintha Here's To Ben A Vocal Tribute To Ben Webster Numbered Limited Edition Japanese Import UHQCD

Jacintha

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Numbered, Limited Edition Japanese Import UHQCD!
Mastered by Bernie Grundman!
Playable on any CD player, the Ultimate High Quality CD greatly surpasses all previous CDs before it!
Distributed Exclusively by Elusive Disc!

The 1st artist to be released Groove Note Records has already became a legend in her own time! Already a tremendous figure in her native Singapore, Jacintha has been turning heads and ears in this country as well. With an outstanding singing style on par with the greats, Jacintha will enrapture you in a perpetual state of musical bliss!

Jacintha pays tribute to the legendary tenor saxophone player: Ben Webster. The songs have been specially selected to reflect this premise, i.e. they are mostly great vocal standards and/or ballads that have been recorded by Webster many times and are thus associated with his particular style and name. Some of these songs like Stardust, How Long Has This Been Going On, Georgia and Our Love is Here to Stay, Over The Rainbow are Webster classics.

All About Ultimate High Quality CD (UHQCD)
Many years have passed since the birth of the Audio Compact Disc (CD) back in 1982. By use of High-Quality materials and a totally different manufacturing method, the definitive version of audiophile audio CD was born. Playable on any CD player, the Ultimate High Quality CD greatly surpasses all previous CDs before it!

The Ultimate High Quality CD (UHQCD):
UHQCD is a radical change to the CD manufacturing process itself. The conventional wisdom about CD manufacturing, which had remained largely unchanged across the world for over 30 years, has been exhaustively questioned. Through this effort, the ultimate in quality was attained - a level of quality that is certainly impossible to achieve with existing CD discs.

The Ultimate High Quality CD was developed through an effort to improve audio quality by simply upgrading the materials used in ordinary CDs to higher quality materials. For the substrate a high-transparency and high-fluidity polycarbonate (a type of plastic) of the type used for LCD panels was used, while for the reflective layer, low-cost, common aluminum was replaced with a unique and expensive alloy of high-reflectivity

Differences in manufacturing methods:
Conventional CDs are produced using the technique of injection molding to form "pits" of data on polycarbonate material. Metal plate on which "pits" representing audio source data are formed is used as a die. This is called the "stamper." Polycarbonate is melted at high temperature and poured into the die to duplicate the pit patterns on the stamper.

This method is efficient because it enables high-speed production, but it does not enable totally accurate or complete duplication of the pits on the stamper. As a melted plastic, polycarbonate is inevitably viscous, so it cannot penetrate completely into every land and groove of the tiny pits of the stamper.

The Ultimate High Quality CD photopolymer is used instead of polycarbonate to replicate the pits of the stamper. In their normal state, photopolymers are liquids, but one of their characteristic properties is that they harden when exposed to light of certain wavelengths. The advantage of this property, perfect replication of very finely detailed pits was achieved. Photopolymers in the liquid state are able to penetrate into the tiniest corners of pits on the stamper so that the pattern of the pits is reproduced to an extremely high level of accuracy. The Ultimate High Quality CD reproduces audio with greater precision and at a level that is impossible to achieve using conventional CD production technology!

Packaged in an XRCD-like luxury digipak complete with full color CD booklet.

Features

  • Numbered, Limited Edition
  • Made in Japan
  • Superior Crystal Sound
  • Ultimate High Quality CD
  • XRCD-Like Luxury Digipak
  • Playable on conventional CD players
  • Mastered by Bernie Grundman, using the Sony Direct Stream Digital System

Musicians

Jacintha vocals
Kei Akagia piano
Darek Oles bass
Larance Marable drums
Teddy Edwards tenor saxophone

Selections

  1. Georgia On My Mind
  2. Our Love Is Here To Stay
  3. Tenderly
  4. Somewhere Over The Rainbow
  5. How Long Has This Been Going On?
  6. Stardust
  7. In The Wee Small Hours Of The Morning
  8. Pennies From Heaven
  9. Danny Boy
  10. The Look Of Love (Audiophile Bonus Cafe)
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03/31/2020
Alexander C.
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Jacintha Here's To Ben A Vocal Tribute To Ben Webster Numbered Limited Edition Japanese MQA UHQCD

This is the reference level sound on most of the tracks just from undecoded MQA (not to mention the awesome Digibook packaging). I only imagine how good it will sound when decoded with the right MQA player/DAC, matching to the rest of my Hi-End system. I considered myself lucky to get it at retail of $40 (my CD number is 0665 out of 1000). Just think, 1000 pieces to the whole world. I would like to thank Burnie Grudman for a good job and Andy Lam of Hong Kong for stepping up into the new MQA UHQCD format. UHQ alone greatly enhances the sound a lot (at least in my system), but remastering is a real king here. I compared this release (two matching songs) with the previously released CD “The Best of Jacintha” (2008 mastering), which came with Japanese FORS Master Sound technology designed to eliminate data degradation during signal transmission (both CD are printed in Japan on UHQ). This is a very fair comparison that excludes the impact of the material. “Here’s to Ben” easily won with a smoother, warmer and more 3-dimensional sound, proving once again that mastering is at least 80% of the sound. I’m looking forward to Andy Lam’s next MQA UHQCD release. I dare to dream of Roberta Gambarini “Shadow Of Your Smile: Homage to Japan” has long gone out of print and is in great demand now… I believe that Elusive Disc is the only seller who offers this release in the US at the best price - the "secret" that I have to tell everyone. Thanks for caring such a wonderful stuff, guys.

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