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专辑英文名: The Beatles MFSL无损合辑
歌手: The Beatles
别名: 甲壳虫
音乐风格: 摇滚
资源格式: WV
版本: MFSL
发行时间: 1979年
地区: 英国
语言: 英语
概述:
专辑简介:
美国著名发烧唱片厂牌MOBILE FIDELITY SOUND LAB(简称MFSL)即“移动传真音响实验室”公司的出品一直为特别讲究唱片制作质素的乐迷和唱片藏家们所推崇。在上世纪80年代中期以前,MFSL一直坚持只生产高品质LP,后来CD问世并流行,MFSL在CD和LP方面双管齐下,对CD制作同样是精益求精,它的金CD的靓声征服了众多的爱乐者和音响迷···虽然从根本上来说MFSL只是一个独立小厂牌,但它的出品无论在选材用料还是制作生产过程中都比老牌大厂还要严格得多,很多原本平淡无奇的原始录音,到得MFSL之手后都会有脱胎换骨的表现。80年代末以后,因大势所趋,MFSL曾停产LP,而只生产应时顺势的CD激光唱片。随著90年代中期开始 LP的逐渐复苏,MFSL还曾卷土重来,重新制作生产了许多名版LP···
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The Beatles
as released by Mobile Fidelity
Brad Miller was both a producer and a recording engineer. In 1977, Miller founded Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab, an organization dedicated to faithful sound reproduction. By slowing down the mastering process to "half-speed," by making use of a master tape as close to the original as possible, and by using high quality "virgin" vinyl made by the Japanese Victor Company, Mobile Fidelity set out to issue a series of Original Master Recordings in higher quality than commonly available to the general public.
The first OMR album was issued in February, 1978. As the process gained popularity -- especially after the release of Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon in 1979 -- it was inevitable that Beatles records would be issued through Mobile Fidelity.
The first Beatles record to be issued by MFSL was Abbey Road, catalog number 1-023. This choice was not surprising, since that album made use of the most modern recording equipment available to the Beatles. Released in late December, 1979, Abbey Road quickly sold out its original pressing. Although information was circulated that MoFi only pressed 20,000 of each album, this was untrue; in fact, MFSL's own literature only indicates that they would press no more than 200,000 of any album. Repressings were done, depending on the popularity of a given album. Quite a few copies of Abbey Road are out there, proving that it was quite popular for MFSL. Gregg Schnitzer of MFSL says that about 50,000 copies each were pressed of the (first few) Beatles records on MoFi. A sub-master was obtained from Capitol for this release, rather than obtaining an earlier generation tape from England.
The success of the first Beatles half-speed master eventually brought a second and third. Capitol's Magical Mystery Tour was an interesting choice for the next release. With catalog number 1-047 and released in February of 1981, Magical Mystery Tour also proved to be a rapid seller for MFSL, who by now were doing a terrific business with most of their albums. To my ears, MMT seems to fare a bit better than AR, perhaps indicating that Mobile Fidelity was improving their process. However, since they were still using sub-masters obtained from Capitol, the last three songs on the album are in rechanneled stereo -- as they were on the US LP. Later that year, MFSL began to release Chromium Dioxide ("type II") cassettes, and for that release (C-047) true stereo copies of the three songs were obtained from German Odeon. Therefore, "Penny Lane" and "Baby, You're a Rich Man" saw their first true stereo release in the United States on the MFSL cassette. The cassette was popular, too, and was eventually reissued with a new cover design.
Following their pattern of releasing a new Beatles album every year, MFSL issued the classic "White Album" (formally known as The Beatles) in January, 1982. From this point on, all Beatles releases were made to correspond with the British issues, and the master tapes were obtained from England. The album's tracks have finer definition here than one is accustomed, although many listeners prefer the German "Direct Metal Master" from 1985. The catalog number was 2-072.
October, 1982, saw two special issues: an "Ultra High Quality Recording" of the famous Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album and a limited-edition fourteen-record set of Magical Mystery Tour and the British catalog. The UHQR recording received rave reviews, but many people appear to have bought the set in order to resell it (UHQR 1-100). The Collection boxed set (catalogued BC-1) featured different covers for each LP, showing photographs of tape boxes and log sheets. The notes to Let It Be indicate that the album had been EQ'd for LP, but that tapes were to use the original master. The notes for the Sgt. Pepper LP are also intriguing, because they point out that a quad remix was made in April, 1973, but never released. As for the UHQR series, most people would call that "200-gram virgin vinyl" today; a typical album from 1982 weighed 100 grams. Supposedly, about 5,000 copies were made of the UHQR recording and of the boxed set. The boxed set shows up for sale regularly online, though, so the true number might be much higher; one MFSL insider estimates the number at 25,000.
Reportedly, Rarities was considered for inclusion in the boxed set, and test pressings were made; however, that LP was never released.
Although Mobile Fidelity's own website lists the next release as Sgt. Pepper, giving a date of June, 1983, that album was not released at that time. Instead, the next Beatles release from MFSL was Rubber Soul, issued in June, 1984 (catalog number 1-106). That album was issued on LP and cassette (C-106) at the same time. The album is an improvement over a beat-up low-quality copy, but the cassette is the release that really shines. Although MFSL did not publicize the information, their album releases were occasionally "limited" and/or "compressed" in order to make them more suitable for vinyl. The cassette releases, however, were not treated to such "mutilation." The Rubber Soul cassette from Mobile Fidelity stands as one of the superior releases of the album worldwide. Only here do the guitars on "Nowhere Man" appear in full volume and high-register, the way that Paul McCartney describes them in his interview with Mark Lewisohn (for Recording Sessions).
Nineteen eighty-five saw the release of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band on "regular" album (1-100) and cassette (C-100). With only a slight loss of quality from the UHQR edition, the cassette is certainly worthy of a listen. The album pressing is somehow not as crisp and clean as its UHQR predecessor. The 1985 date is verified by the Beatles Price Guide series, which documented the releases as they came out.
My own notekeeping from the '80's shows that the next release, Help! came out later in 1985 -- speeding up Mobile Fidelity's timetable of one Beatle album per year. Once again, the album came out on LP (1-105) and cassette (C-105), and again the cassette's sound is most outstanding, although the LP is no slouch, either. All in all, an excellent release, with MoFi continuing to improve their sound reproduction.
At about this same time, Revolver was issued on cassette only (C-107). The album was to be released early the following year. Once again, the sound reproduction is astonishing.
The following year, Revolver came out on LP. By this time, however, many audiophiles had heard that the Beatles catalog was being "worked on" for eventual release on compact disc, but NOT through MFSL. With that, their album series lost some of its popularity, and it appears that their contract to release Beatles records and tapes was about to expire. Therefore, the "later" records are all harder to find than are the "earlier" ones. From November of 1986 through January of 1987 (I bought my copies in January, 1987), the company released all of the remaining Beatles LP's: Please Please Me (1-101), With the Beatles (1-102), A Hard Day's Night (1-103), Beatles For Sale (1-104), Yellow Submarine (1-108), and Let It Be (1-109). Although cassette releases were considered for some of these albums, none of them were ever issued that way. The MFSL pressings of these albums are all of excellent quality, and With the Beatles became an "instant rarity" since the stamper was damaged; no effort was made to replace it. Supposedly, there are about 1,250 copies of With the Beatles out there. Except for A Hard Day's Night, all of the albums in the last batch are somewhat scarcer -- maybe 5,000 to 10,000 copies each.
Please Please Me and With the Beatles received high marks from audiophiles, while the others that came out in the last batch were regarded well (but not as highly as those two).
The first Beatles CD's were released in the US in February, 1987. MFSL had been "switching" to CD since 1984 and discontinued their first line of Original Master Recordings. With trouble brewing throughout the '90's, MFSL had been planning to offer new releases of the Beatles catalog but went out of business in 1999. They have returned, offering some solo material, but they have yet to release the Beatles catalog in any format since their revival.
Identifying Early Copies
The A- and B-sides of each album were cut with pressing identification numbers. These numbers (following the letters A and
indicate how many lacquers had been cut to that point. So, the earliest pressing of an album would have A1 and B1 in the vinyl. A12 or B10, for example, might appear in the vinyl of a later copy. Gregg Schnitzer reports that only "a few thousand" of each cassette were made.
He also points out that if a hyphenated number is given like A1-1, then MFSL had gone through their initial set of stampers and returned to the master tape to make further copies. So, an album marked A5 and B6 would be from the first set of stampers, but a copy marked A1-1 and B1-1 would indicate the first stamper made from their second set -- the second time they referenced the master tapes.
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