Extended Resolution Compact Disc
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Extended Resolution Compact Disc (XRCD) is a mastering and manufacture process patented by
An XRCD is priced about twice as high as a regular full-priced CD. JVC attributes this to the higher cost of quality mastering and manufacturing.
Technical overview
The XRCD definition refers to the mastering and manufacture process; the resulting CD and the contained data conform to the redbook standard and are encoded at 16
JVC uses advanced
Unlike
Mastering process
If analog, the source material is first converted to digital via JVC's K2 20-bit or 24-bit analog-to-digital converter.
The musical information is next encoded on a
XRCD2 and XRCD24 are improved versions of the original XRCD process. XRCD2 is the first to record to a magneto-optical disk via the digital K2 regenerator, while XRCD24 upgrades the original music signal's bit depth signal from 20 to 24 bits.
See also
- Dither
- High Definition Compatible Digital (HDCD)
- Super Bit Mapping (SBM)
- TPDF