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HDCDs from China?

All over E-bay are HDCDs from China. I have bought a few of these with mixed quality results. They claim to be legitimate, but I am having my doubts. Most seem to be double or triple albums of popular artists for $10-20. Does anyone know anything about these, legit, ripoffs, garbage?

Are there any HDCD labels from the USA?

Thanks
rcj1231
mattybumpkin
588 posts
 
There are quite a few from the USA, go to http://www.hdcd.comfor a listing.

I have purchased two Chines HDCD's, Enya and Norah Jones. Mine seem to be legitimate, sound quality is good, they light up the light on my cdp, production label is well known. I think you just have to be careful and do some research, I am sure there are fakes as well.

Regards,

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nrchy
2,111 posts
 
China has a huge problem with pirated CDs and DVDs. The government cracks down on occasion, but there are far to many people who make copied CDs and DVDs and then pawn them off on anyone willing to pay the cut-rate prices for which they will sell their illegal discs.
ornette
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There was a recent topic about this on the Steve Hoffman Forum (stevehoffman.tv). Many of those CDs are indeed legit and HDCD encoded, but some are pirate CDs and only use the HDCD sticker to sell better.

Of course HDCD doesn't say anything on the quality of the remastering.
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