This STARTS WITH A tremendously rare AUDIO FIDELITY AND MASTERED BY STEVE HOFFMAN pressing which offers GRAND FUNK WE'RE AN AMERICAN BAND  in one 24K Gold HDCD Masterpiece. Could be one of the last Factory Sealed copy left in the world. Don't Miss Out
PRISTINE SEALED COLLECTORS  OUT OF PRINT AND THIS AUDIOPHILE COMPANY IS NOW OUT OF BUSINESS AND THEIR AUDIOPHILE PRODUCTS ARE NOW BEING SOUGHT OUT BY AUDIOPHILE'S AND PROBABLY THE RAREST OF THESE AUDIO FIDELITY AUDIOPHILE COLLECTIBLES.

Numbered, Limited Edition! 24 KARAT GOLD HDCD - Out of Print!

You've never heard your favorite music sound this good! The clarity is exceptional, you will hear deeper lows and crisper highs. Treat yourself to a musical experience you've never had before! These new 24KT+ Gold CDs reproduce the ultimate sound of a classic recorded performance without the irregular plated surfaces of standard aluminum discs.

Audio Fidelity's 24KT+ Gold CD series brings you classic music in deluxe packaging with see-through slip cases using original album art, all beautifully reproduced. They only use the original master mixes played back on a specially constructed vintage playback deck. Here's where the PLUS (+) comes in: The analog masters are put through their new proprietary analog to digital converter which reinforces the resolution of the original masters adding true "breath of life" to the music. Without any further sonic manipulation the master is shipped directly to the manufacturing plant for etching in "real time" onto the glass surface by laser. The end result of this unique mastering process is a compact disc with the warm sound of the original analog master tape combined with a genuine 24 karat gold surface free of any type of physical defect making Audio Fidelity's 24KT+ Gold CD series truly one of a kind!

 
PLUS FOR THE COLLECTOR THE RARE OBI JAPAN REPLICA CD - TREMENDOUSLY RARE OUT OF PRINT ORIGINAL REPLICA JACKET MASTERPIECE - FACTORY SEALED - Japanese exclusive reissue. OUT OF PRINT SINCE 2006
 
COLLECTORS NOTE: THESE TITLES ARE IN COLLECTORS CONDITION WITH NO STORE STICKERS EVER ATTACHED. 
 
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THE 24 KARAT GOLD CD INFORMATION

Each 24 KARAT GOLD CD was pressed directly from the original studio master session tapes ; the purest source of musical information and engineered to produce the finest CD sound quality available.

Every compact disc delivers the music to you with all the depth, dynamics, and richness of the live recording session. We invite you to hear the three-dimensional quality of the music just as the artist intended for it to sound.

The proprietary mastering technology extracts and transparently stores more musical information from the original master tapes than any other method in existence.

For the discriminating listener, the results include: a wider range of frequencies, increased depth and room dimension cues, clarity, and separation of instruments.

The technology substantially decreases characteristics such as hardness and glare bringing the sound of CD even closer to the warmth and openess of analogue.

Why Buy 24K Gold CDs? Aluminum particles are rough, resulting in pits and irregularities on the playing surface. Gold particles are uniform and have a constant rate of reflection giving an even, reproductive sound quality. Also, 24K Gold CDs will not oxidize or tarnish and will last for years longer than traditional aluminum CDs

 
This is a true Collector’s find for those individuals who want to own the finest and rarest pieces of musical history. It is similar to owning the artist’s own Rare Gold Record Album in a Gold CD pressing. You will be one of the last people in the world to own these Limited Edition Long Out of Print Masterpieces that will add true value to your Collection.

AUDIO FIDELITY LIMITED GOLD EDITION. This 24-Karat Gold Limited Edition FACTORY SEALED CD is an audiophile collectors item that simply gives the feeling of being directly in the studio with the artist.

This recording is mastered from the Original Session Tapes and the disc is custom pressed using 24-Karat Gold (known for its superior qualities and resistance to oxidation). This Out of Print Gold bonafide collectible disc has all Liner Notes, Photos, and Artwork from the Original LP faithfully recreated.

A SONIC WORK OF ART. These Out of Print gems are the Finest/Rarest of the audiophile CD market. Many over the last year have doubled or tripled in value. The future of these collectibles is so exciting because each piece is a sonic work of art that will never be reproduced using this expensive 24-Karat Gold mastering process. You will be one of only a few thousand in the world owning this audiophile classic and one of the last few

Track Listing
1. We're An American Band
2. Stop Lookin' Back
3. Creepin'
4. Black Licorice
5. Railroad, The
6. Ain't Got Nobody
7. Walk Like A Man
8. Loneliest Rider

BONUS TRACKS - HOORAY - THE END - STOP LOOKIN BACK & WE'RE AN AMERICAN BAND 2002 REMIX

THE JAPAN REPLICA INFORMATION

WHAT IS A JAPAN "REPLICA-LP-SLEEVE" CD? 

Have you ever lamented the loss of one of the 20th Century's great art forms, the 12" vinyl LP jacket? Then "mini-LP-sleeve" CD's may be for you. 

Mini-sleeve CDs are manufactured in Japan under license. The disc is packaged inside a 135MM X 135MM cardboard precision-miniature replica of the original classic vinyl-LP album. Also, anything contained in the original LP, such as gatefolds, booklets, lyric sheets, posters, printed LP sleeves, stickers, embosses, special LP cover paper/inks/textures and/or die cuts, are precisely replicated and included. An English-language lyric sheet is always included, even if the original LP did not have printed lyrics. 

Then, there's the sonic quality:  Mini-sleeves have dedicated remastering (20-Bit, 24-Bit, DSD, K2/K2HD, and/or HDCD), and can often be superior to the audio on the same title anywhere else in the world. There also may be bonus tracks unavailable elsewhere. 

Each Japan mini-sleeve has an "obi" ("oh-bee"), a removable Japan-language promotional strip. The obi lists the Japan street date of that particular release, the catalog number, the mastering info, and often the original album's release date. Bonus tracks are only listed on the obi, maintaining the integrity of the original LP artwork. The obi's are collectable, and should not be discarded. 

All mini-sleeve releases are tremendously limited editions mainly pressed on future orders only and once released immediately out of print. This fact along with other latter features we've mentioned make these titles rare collectibles that sell in the collectors markets for $100's of dollars apiece. Japanese digitally re-mastered Mini LP replica Limited Edition Collection with OBI sash down the front – VERY FEW pieces made world-wide and are immediately Out of Print.  Recorded from the finest Original Masters available.  Comes with anti-static sleeves similar to Vinyl LPs, Cardboard packaging like an LP.  Actual miniaturized version of the 12” LP in 4” CD version

 

Track Listing
1. We're An American Band
2. Stop Lookin' Back
3. Creepin'
4. Black Licorice
5. Railroad, The
6. Ain't Got Nobody
7. Walk Like A Man
8. Loneliest Rider

 When released in 1973, the first 100,000 units were on virgin gold vinyl  as is this long out of print re-issue. Grand Funk was the only group to release their albums on virgin vinyl. It was sign of things to come for the band and was truly the most successful year for the group, which they needed after dumping Terry Knight and embroiled in lawsuits and fears that maybe they wouldn't succeed but they did. Although more POP then previous albums, this was a Grand Funk album no doubt; introducing the songwriting abilities of Don Brewer (who had co-written other songs previously, but this album has songs written only by him). It was more upbeat then the previous "Phoenix" album and had a party theme to it, yet Mark Farner did contribute a soul-searching song on how American Indians are treated in " Loneliest Rider". It's the second album with keyboardist Craig Frost now a full fledge member of the band, posing nude with the rest of them on the inside gatefold of the cover. "The Railroad", "Stop Looking Back" along with the Mark Farner signature type song "Ain't got Nobody" with the hits "Walk Like a Man" and of course "American Band"

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FACTORY SEALED OUT OF PRINT PRODUCT is IRREPLACEABLE and therefore NOT RETURNABLE.

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