Pressed on MoFi SuperVinyl and Strictly Limited to 7,500 Copies: Mobile Fidelity's UltraDisc One-Step 180g 45RPM 2LP Set Plays with Explosive Dynamics
1/4" / 30 IPS analog master to DSD 256 to analog console to lathe
Van Halen vocalist David Lee Roth says it all on the second song of the band's third album — and third consecutive smash in less than three years time. "Everybody wants some!," he declares before immediately querying, "Baby, how 'bout, you?" Roth and the rest of Van Halen already knew the answer. The quartet further confirmed its status as America's leading rock band and principal party starters on Women and Children First while heading in harder, heavier directions with thrilling songs that Rolling Stone scribe David Fricke rightly deemed "works of high-volume art."
Sourced from the original analog tapes, pressed on MoFi SuperVinyl at Fidelity Record Pressing, and limited to 7,500 copies, Mobile Fidelity's UltraDisc One-Step 180g 45RPM 2LP set of Women and Children First explodes with dynamic energy, saturated colors, multi-dimensional textures, and vivid detail. This 2LP edition practically whisks you to Sunset Sound Recorders and lets you sit in with Eddie Van Halen, Alex Van Halen, Michael Anthony, and David Lee Roth as they complete the record in just eight days time. Made with few overdubs and featuring a live-on-the-floor feel, Women and Children First can now be experienced with unparalleled transparency, clarity, balance, and, if you so choose with your volume settings, concert-like solidity, scope, and decibel levels. Credit MoFi's unique SuperVinyl compound, which allows you to crank this set as high as you want without risking noise-floor interference.
Housed in a deluxe slipcase, it features special foil-stamped jackets and faithful-to-the-original graphics that illuminate the splendor of the recording. Aurally and visually, this UD1S reissue is made for discerning listeners who desire to fully immerse themselves in everything involved with the album, from the cover art — and really, is there a better shot of Van Halen than the cover image? — to the interior photos.
More About Mobile Fidelity UltraDisc One-Step and Why It Is Superior
Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab’s UltraDisc One-Step (UD1S) technique bypasses generational losses inherent to the traditional three-step plating process by removing two steps: the production of father and mother plates, which are created to yield numerous stampers from each lacquer that is cut. For UD1S plating, stampers (also called “converts”) are made directly from the lacquers. Since each lacquer yields only one stamper, multiple lacquers need to be cut. Mobile Fidelity's UD1S process produces a final LP with the lowest-possible noise floor. The removal of two steps of the plating process also reveals musical details and dynamics that would otherwise be lost due to the standard multi-step process. With UD1S, every aspect of vinyl production is optimized to produce the best-sounding vinyl album available today.
MoFi SuperVinyl
Developed by NEOTECH and RTI, MoFi SuperVinyl is the most exacting-to-specification vinyl compound devised. Expensive and extremely painstaking to produce, the special proprietary compound addresses two specific areas of improvement: noise floor reduction and enhanced groove definition. The vinyl composition features a carbonless dye (hold the disc up to the light and see) and produces ultra-quiet surfaces. This high-definition formula also allows for the creation of clean grooves that are virtually indistinguishable from the original lacquer.
Tracks
Side One:
And the Cradle Will Rock...
Everybody Wants Some!!
Side Two:
Fools
Romeo’s Delight
Side Three:
Tora! Tora!
Loss of Control
Take Your Whiskey Home
Side Four:
Could This Be Magic?
In a Simple Rhyme
UPC: 821797203425|
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