"As far as the 32 minutes, that’s about the limit to the number of minutes on a long playing record where the sound is most powerful, 15 minutes to a side. My records were always overloaded on both sides. Too many minutes to be recorded or mastered properly. My songs were too long and didn’t fit the audio format of an LP. The sound was thin and you would have to turn your record player up to nine or ten to hear it well." - Bob Dylan i intervju med Bill Flanagan tidligere i år
Har man lyst til å høre Dylans 60-tallsklassikere på sitt aller beste heter løsningen Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab. Her kommer de ikke bare på dobbel-LP, men i tillegg som 45rpm-utgaver. De tidlige platene er også i mono-utgaver. Alt naturligvis mastret og trykket etter Mobile Fidelitys skyhøye standarder.
I tillegg finnes det selvfølgelig masse annet å glede seg over i MFSL-katalogen.
Mobile Fidelity har gjennom de 40 årene siden starten i 1977 blitt verdens mest kjente audiofile label. Noen av selskapets beste utgivelser har omtrent blitt klassikere i seg selv, og den velkjente MoFi-logoen og den karakteristiske stripen på coveret har blitt smått ikoniske gjennom årene.
Vi har gått gjennom hele vårt vinylutvalg av Mobile Fidelity og lagt til en rekke titler, tydeliggjort info om ulike formater, mono-utgaver og annet som gjør det enklere å finne frem i utvalget vårt. Og, ikke minst, har vi satt ned prisene til et nivå som iallefall er litt mer forlokkende enn tidligere.
Ut denne uken gir vi i tillegg 10% rabatt i nettbutikken på hele vårt vinylutvalg fra Mobile Fidelity. Rabatten trekkes fra i kassen.
Utvalget finner du her:
Mobile Fidelity hos Platekompaniet
Vi har stort sett ca 5 dagers leveringstid på disse utgivelsene, med fare for noen få dager ekstra når vår distributør er midlertidig utsolgt.
Her kan du lese mer om Mobile Fidelitys metoder med deres egne ord:
Mobile Fidelity believes that mastering systems should be neutral and transparent. The essential idea is to unveil all the detailed musical information on the original master recording without adding deterioration, coloration or other sonic artifacts.
It is worth noting that Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab stands out as one of few record labels that independently invests in research and development of audio technology. With proprietary innovations such as GAIN 2™, general music enthusiasts and audiophiles alike have reaped the benefit of a higher consumer audio standard without investing in costly new hardware. Mobile Fidelity is pleased to work with a variety of engineering legends and companies including Tim de Paravicini, Ed Meitner, Pass Labs, Lipinski Sound and Sony Electronics.
Our joint efforts to seek out the ultimate audio experience, has resulted in significant advances for the technology of music reproduction.
GAIN 2™ Mastering Technology for Ultradisc UHR™ Hybrid SACD and Ultradisc II™ 24kt Gold CDs
For over twenty years, Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab has continually searched for the ultimate audio experience. During this search MFSL engineers and associates created The GAIN™ System, a proprietary mastering technology which brought warmth and ambience to the compact disc format. A few years ago - with higher resolution formats on the horizon - the vision of GAIN 2™ began. As it stands today, GAIN 2™ is one of the greatest technical advancements in analogue and digital technology in the last ten years. It consists of a series of critical modifications and new components to Mobile Fidelity's proprietary mastering chain.
We feel that GAIN 2™ has come extremely close to meeting this goal. The key accomplishments of GAIN 2™ System are 1) the ability to extract all the musical information as possible through the Ultra High bandwidth analogue tape playback system with proprietary custom tape playback heads, reproducer electronics and 2) transparently capturing and storing that information with the Direct Stream Digital recording system.
GAIN 2™ Ultra Analog™ System or Vinyl
GAIN 2 Ultra Analog™ is a proprietary cutting system built and designed by legendary design genius Tim De Paravicini, with consultation from one of MFSL’s founding fathers – Stan Ricker, an audio engineer responsible for many of MFSL’s most heralded past releases.
The GAIN 2 Ultra Analog™ system is comprised of a Studer™ tape machine with customized reproduction electronics* and handcrafted cutting amps that drive an Ortofon cutting head on a restored Neumann VMS-70 lathe. (*It is worth noting that independent studies have confirmed that the GAIN 2 Ultra Analog™ system can unveil sonic information all the way up to 122kHz!)
First and foremost, we only utilize first generation original master recordings as source material for our releases. We then play back master tapes at half speed enabling the GAIN 2 Ultra Analog™ system to fully extract the master’s sonic information. Our lacquers are then plated in a specialized process that protects transients in the musical signal. (Due to this process, there may be occasional pops or ticks inherent in initial play back, but as the disc is played more, a high quality stylus will actually polish the grooves and improve the sound). We further ensure optimum sound quality by strictly limiting the number of pressings printed for each release. These limited editions, in addition to being collectors’ items, ensure that the quality of the last pressing matches the quality of the first.
As you can imagine, all these efforts involve a tremendous amount of time, technology, cost and effort. The introduction of GAIN 2 Ultra Analog™ maintains Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab’s position as the world’s leading audiophile record label, where a passion for music with extraordinary sound quality matters most.
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