A 24 Karat Gold CD
A gold CD is one in which gold is used in place of the super purity aluminium commonly used as the reflective coating on ordinary CDs. The gold coats more evenly and reacts with oxygen slower, thus reducing CD rot and providing greater longevity. 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.
Examples
- ABBA - Gold: Greatest Hits
- Blood, Sweat & Tears - Child Is Father to the Man
- The Doors - Strange Days
- The Eagles - Hell Freezes Over
- Elton John - Elton John's Greatest Hits
- Jethro Tull - Aqualung
- John Lennon - Imagine
- Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
- The Police - Ghost in the Machine
- Counting Crows - August and Everything After
- Metallica - Master of Puppets
