As digital downloads become the predominant delivery system for music, the constraints of CD manufacturing plants make traditional replication of slower selling and deep catalogue CD's impractical. Though the quality of digital downloads has increased over the years it has been available, it is still not a substitute for the uncompressed sound quality delivered by the .aiff file format found on CDs.
We will always be keen advocates of getting the highest quality of sound arriving to the listeners ear. Currently this still means fully uncompressed CD. Because of these factors we have made the decision to make some titles available as "Disc on Demand". What this will mean is fully uncompressed CD's which are burnt on the latest R-Quest CD manufacturing system and printed to the highest quality. Discs will be delivered as before, in a jewel case, with booklet and inlay and fully shrink wrapped.
We will always be keen advocates of getting the highest quality of sound arriving to the listeners ear. Currently this still means fully uncompressed CD. Because of these factors we have made the decision to make some titles available as "Disc on Demand". What this will mean is fully uncompressed CD's which are burnt on the latest R-Quest CD manufacturing system and printed to the highest quality. Discs will be delivered as before, in a jewel case, with booklet and inlay and fully shrink wrapped.
An in house CD duplication system is provided by Rimage and Everest Printers. A fully automated DDP mastering writing is undertaken and the discs are printed using the Everest thermal retransfer system to give a great result both in performance and aesthetically.