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Mobile Fidelity Introduces UD1S Analog

MOFI has finally, (well actually it was announced awhile ago) the first UD1S record, Santana "Abraxas".

Here is more on the UD1S process:

More About Mobile Fidelity UltraDisc One-Step and Why It Is Superior

Instead of utilizing the industry-standard three-step lacquer process, Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab's new UltraDisc One-Step (UD1S) uses only one step, bypassing two processes of generational loss. While three-step processing is designed for optimum yield and efficiency, UD1S is created for the ultimate in sound quality. Just as Mobile Fidelity pioneered the UHQR (Ultra High-Quality Record) with JVC in the 1980s, UD1S again represents another state-of-the-art advance in the record-manufacturing process. MFSL engineers begin with the original master tapes and meticulously cut a set of lacquers. These lacquers are used to create a very fragile, pristine UD1S stamper called a "convert." Delicate "converts" are then formed into the actual record stampers, producing a final product that literally and figuratively brings you closer to the music. By skipping the additional steps of pulling another positive and an additional negative, as done in the three-step process used in standard pressings, UD1S produces a final LP with the lowest noise floor possible today. The removal of the additional two steps of generational loss in the plating process reveals tremendous amounts of extra musical detail and dynamics, which are otherwise lost due to the standard copying process. The exclusive nature of these very limited pressings guarantees that every UD1S pressing serves as an immaculate replica of the lacquer sourced directly from the original master tape. Every conceivable aspect of vinyl production is optimized to produce the most perfect record album available today.
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don_c55
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I will stick with my original from the 60’s!

I have had sonic issues with all my Music Direct owned Mobile Fidelity Lps and SACDs.

Liked the original Japanese pressed Mobile Fidelity Lps from the 70's and 80's though.
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dweller
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I wonder if MoFi will use the clear, super virgin vinyl pioneered by Classic Records?
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mofimadness OP
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I wonder if MoFi will use the clear, super virgin vinyl pioneered by Classic Records?
I don’t believe they are. It will be virgin vinyl of course, but I think it will be black.

I have a lot of the Classic Records clear formula LPs, and I’m not really sure it made a difference? Was there ever any evidence/tests done to say if it really worked? I think the only thing I can recall was that it did reduce static somewhat.
rlawry
478 posts
 
Sounds like MoFi will be advancing the state of the art with this new mastering system.  Now if they just don't ruin them like they have with all of their other titles by electronically equalizing them and using a narrow groove width, along with whatever else they employed.  I once had every release they did and even some unreleased titles, and it was child's play to find better-sounding copies of their titles.  Did get big bucks when I sold them.
cousinbillyl
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I'm hoping someone can correct me.

The master tape is? - a long piece of tape, with a bazillion little magnets on it. A split second after the recording, those tiny (realigned) magnets start influencing each other, and start trying to shift position.

Unless I'm mistaken, tapes should be stored in a fridge/freezer.

There's also a small electromagnetic field trying to realign all those tiny little magnets, it's called planet Earth. The tapes need to be stored in a lead case (possibly a little dangerous for the handlers).

Every remaster I've ever bought is missing something. When I play the scratched/tick/popped original pressing, I always pack the new one, and sell it.

Or am I lost?
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