SHM-CD: New and improved CD format from Japan!

[Antoine Marchand]

Some days ago a friend sent me THIS LINK  about the new SHM-CD format... Sincerely, I see several potential buyers here. 

[Scarpia]

The claims in the link are simply gibberish.  Even the simplest CD drive can read an entire garden variety CD without loosing a single bit of data.  There is no improvement to be had from a CD made from some fancy material that is claimed to be of higher quality.

[Todd]

As the proud owner of some SHM-CDs (Eric Heidsieck's Mozart sonata cycle), I can report that they appear to me to be plain old CDs with an insert included.  Since I don't have the non-SHM-CD version of the recordings, I can't compare, but somehow I think they sound the same as standard CDs, much like previously touted Gold CDs sound just like regular CDs. 

[Gurn Blanston]

Some days ago a friend sent me THIS LINK  about the new SHM-CD format... Sincerely, I see several potential buyers here. 

Me too...

[SonicMan46]

Well, I might buy some of those discs as 'new' purchases but would not plan to replace my current 'standard' ones.  If the same CD-Audio rules apply, i.e. the 'Red Book' for encoding, error correction, etc., then I cannot imagine 'why' the sound should be better since the data read is digital off the stereo tracks?  I guess that a real A-B 'blinded' comparison would need to be done.  Skeptical at the moment -