VHTrading » Topic: Van Halen Partners with Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab & Warner Records … http://www.vhtrading.com/topic/van-halen-partners-with-mobile-fidelity-sound-lab-warner-records/feed http://bbpress.org/?v=2.0 en http://www.vhtrading.com/topic/van-halen-partners-with-mobile-fidelity-sound-lab-warner-records/#post-65221<![CDATA[Van Halen Partners with Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab & Warner Records …]]>http://www.vhtrading.com/topic/van-halen-partners-with-mobile-fidelity-sound-lab-warner-records/#post-65221 Thu, 24 Feb 2022 21:05:16 +0000 ron

VAN HALEN PARTNERS WITH MOBILE FIDELITY SOUND LAB & WARNER RECORDS TO RELEASE BAND’S FIRST SIX STUDIO ALBUMS AS 180G PREMIUM SUPERVINYL BOX SETS, SACDS, AND 180G 45RPM 2LPS

Limited Edition UltraDisc One-Step 45rpm Vinyl LP Deluxe Box Sets Feature Special Foil-Stamped Jackets and Faithful-to-the-Original Graphics

Box Sets and SACDs Available for Preorder Now at MusicDirect.com

Los Angeles, CA – February 24, 2022 – Van Halen’s first six multi-platinum selling albums will be released by Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab (MoFi), a company delivering the foremost audio technology and specializing in high-quality reissues of key albums, on its revered UltraDisc One-Step 180g 45RPM 2LP (UD1S) and hybrid SACD formats. Exclusively limited to 10,000 numbered copies, each UD1S box set will be mastered from the original analog master tapes, pressed at RTI on MoFi SuperVinyl. In addition to the limited edition UltraDisc One-Step 45rpm vinyl, the numbered-edition Super Audio CDs (SACD) will come packaged in a mini-gatefold sleeve and be mastered from the original tapes. The first of the six studio albums, Van Halen (1978), is set to be released in the fourth quarter of 2022, and will be followed by Van Halen II (1979), Women and Children First (1980), Fair Warning (1981), Diver Down (1982), and 1984 (1984).

Mobile Fidelity’s ultra-hi-fi UltraDisc One-Step 180g 45RPM 2LP Box Set vinyl editions of the band’s first six albums can be pre-ordered now at MusicDirect.com, the world’s largest online retailer of high-end home audio and audiophile music, equipment, and accessories, including vinyl records and turntables. Pre-orders for a standard three-step process 180g 45RPM 2LP will be announced at a future date.

“Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab is excited to release Van Halen’s first six iconic albums in the UD1S and SACD formats for the first time,” said Jim Davis, president of Music Direct and Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab. “Fans will experience Van Halen’s original blend of raw power and Hollywood flair like never before through these limited-edition, audiophile-grade One-Step vinyl box sets.”

Van Halen’s iconic first six albums have previously been overlooked for the UD1S and SACD treatment due to the music’s sheer excitement and raucous intensity. Ted Templeman’s production work and Donn Landee’s engineering stamps them with the kind of immediacy, dynamics, punch, and separation all great-sounding records possess. That skillful original production is another reason Van Halen’s 1978-84 catalog demands the peerless restorative treatment Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab provides. Experienced on the label’s UD1S vinyl box sets and hybrid SACDs, the band’s records will sound more vivid, present, and entertaining than ever.

The premium packaging and gorgeous presentation of each UD1S Van Halen pressing befit its select status. Housed in a deluxe box, each set features special foil-stamped jackets and faithful-to-the-original graphics that illuminate the splendor of the recording. Aurally and visually, UD1S reissues exist as a curatorial artifact meant to be preserved, touched, and examined. They are made for discerning listeners that prize sound quality and production, and who desire to fully immerse themselves in the art—and everything involved with the album, from the iconic cover art to the meticulous finishes and, naturally, Eddie Van Halen’s pioneering fretwork and his brother Alex’s double-bass percussion.

Playing with reference-setting sonics that elevate multi-platinum landmarks whose importance cannot be quantitatively measured, Mobile Fidelity collector’s versions provide a clear, clean, transparent, balanced, and turn-the-volume-up-to-11 view of feel-good albums that birthed entirely new styles and fueled hormonally charged desires. And because MoFi’s unique SuperVinyl compound allows analog lovers to crank the decibels to their wildest desires without risking noise-floor interference, they will not only hear but feel Van Halen in their chest, no fifth-row concert seat necessary.

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]]> http://www.vhtrading.com/topic/van-halen-partners-with-mobile-fidelity-sound-lab-warner-records/#post-65222<![CDATA[Reply To: Van Halen Partners with Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab & Warner Records …]]>http://www.vhtrading.com/topic/van-halen-partners-with-mobile-fidelity-sound-lab-warner-records/#post-65222 Thu, 24 Feb 2022 22:46:54 +0000 PT5150

How many times are they going to rerelease these alumna and not the Sammy era VH stuff.
And with no added extra outtakes or bonus material ?

Anyone know how much better the sound quality is ?

EDDIE’S fingers aren’t fingers they are muscle-powered pistons that hammer guitar strings to the fretboard with the force of a rivet gun”.

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]]> http://www.vhtrading.com/topic/van-halen-partners-with-mobile-fidelity-sound-lab-warner-records/#post-65223<![CDATA[Reply To: Van Halen Partners with Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab & Warner Records …]]>http://www.vhtrading.com/topic/van-halen-partners-with-mobile-fidelity-sound-lab-warner-records/#post-65223 Thu, 24 Feb 2022 23:05:42 +0000 ron

PT5150:

Anyone know how much better the sound quality is ?

I’m sure someone will review them when they are released in about 10 months time…

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]]> http://www.vhtrading.com/topic/van-halen-partners-with-mobile-fidelity-sound-lab-warner-records/#post-65227<![CDATA[Reply To: Van Halen Partners with Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab & Warner Records …]]>http://www.vhtrading.com/topic/van-halen-partners-with-mobile-fidelity-sound-lab-warner-records/#post-65227 Fri, 25 Feb 2022 18:51:13 +0000 JasonA

Those Mofi one-step records are $125 each

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]]> http://www.vhtrading.com/topic/van-halen-partners-with-mobile-fidelity-sound-lab-warner-records/#post-66474<![CDATA[Reply To: Van Halen Partners with Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab & Warner Records …]]>http://www.vhtrading.com/topic/van-halen-partners-with-mobile-fidelity-sound-lab-warner-records/#post-66474 Thu, 11 May 2023 23:33:22 +0000 ron

Still no release date, and…
https://wbsm.com/ixp/295/p/mofi-records-settlement/
MoFi to Pay $25 Million Over Fraudulent ‘All-Analog’ Records

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]]> http://www.vhtrading.com/topic/van-halen-partners-with-mobile-fidelity-sound-lab-warner-records/#post-66547<![CDATA[Reply To: Van Halen Partners with Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab & Warner Records …]]>http://www.vhtrading.com/topic/van-halen-partners-with-mobile-fidelity-sound-lab-warner-records/#post-66547 Tue, 30 May 2023 15:26:41 +0000 ron

Saw a hint today that the SACDs might be released in early October.

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]]> http://www.vhtrading.com/topic/van-halen-partners-with-mobile-fidelity-sound-lab-warner-records/#post-66630<![CDATA[Reply To: Van Halen Partners with Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab & Warner Records …]]>http://www.vhtrading.com/topic/van-halen-partners-with-mobile-fidelity-sound-lab-warner-records/#post-66630 Wed, 21 Jun 2023 21:42:35 +0000 rockphantom

I reached out to MoFi on Twitter yesterday and was informed that the SACD of the first Van Halen album is scheduled for release in August. Van Halen II will be released in March 2024, with the rest of the Dave era SACDs to follow sometime in 2024. Hopefully, the Sammy era albums will receive the MoFi treatment this decade…

https://twitter.com/mofisoundlab/status/1671592809134977024

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]]> http://www.vhtrading.com/topic/van-halen-partners-with-mobile-fidelity-sound-lab-warner-records/#post-66634<![CDATA[Reply To: Van Halen Partners with Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab & Warner Records …]]>http://www.vhtrading.com/topic/van-halen-partners-with-mobile-fidelity-sound-lab-warner-records/#post-66634 Thu, 22 Jun 2023 14:06:49 +0000 vhrob

I wouldnt count on it….. They just keep re-releasing the same Dave era albums time after time after time after time….. I just cant believe people are dumb enough to keep buying them… oh and more funko pops….. unreal….

SAMMY ERA PLEEEEEEEESE….. and LIVE STUFF PLEASE!!!! We know its out there you keep teasing us on instagram and YouTube with all this 93, 95 era Live stuff….

vhtrading member since 2000

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]]> http://www.vhtrading.com/topic/van-halen-partners-with-mobile-fidelity-sound-lab-warner-records/#post-66735<![CDATA[Reply To: Van Halen Partners with Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab & Warner Records …]]>http://www.vhtrading.com/topic/van-halen-partners-with-mobile-fidelity-sound-lab-warner-records/#post-66735 Fri, 14 Jul 2023 06:13:29 +0000 thismusicsux

vhrob
SAMMY ERA PLEEEEEEEESE….. and LIVE STUFF PLEASE!!!!We know its out there you keep teasing us on instagram and YouTube with all this 93, 95 era Live stuff….

you know EVH/AVH would want to re-record and fix up any live stuff. wouldn’t be ready for release — let’s cherish what we have :-)

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]]> http://www.vhtrading.com/topic/van-halen-partners-with-mobile-fidelity-sound-lab-warner-records/#post-66737<![CDATA[Reply To: Van Halen Partners with Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab & Warner Records …]]>http://www.vhtrading.com/topic/van-halen-partners-with-mobile-fidelity-sound-lab-warner-records/#post-66737 Fri, 14 Jul 2023 07:15:41 +0000 Dutchie

I dont think EVH or AVH were the reasons the live stuff had to be rerecorded… ;)

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]]> http://www.vhtrading.com/topic/van-halen-partners-with-mobile-fidelity-sound-lab-warner-records/#post-66904<![CDATA[Reply To: Van Halen Partners with Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab & Warner Records …]]>http://www.vhtrading.com/topic/van-halen-partners-with-mobile-fidelity-sound-lab-warner-records/#post-66904 Thu, 17 Aug 2023 20:36:48 +0000 ron


Pre-Order: https://mofi.com/search?type=product&q=po_081723
SACD also available

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]]> http://www.vhtrading.com/topic/van-halen-partners-with-mobile-fidelity-sound-lab-warner-records/#post-66907<![CDATA[Reply To: Van Halen Partners with Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab & Warner Records …]]>http://www.vhtrading.com/topic/van-halen-partners-with-mobile-fidelity-sound-lab-warner-records/#post-66907 Fri, 18 Aug 2023 01:32:25 +0000 ModelCitizen

Thanks Ron. Followed the link and went to order the SACD version and it’s trying to charge me shipping. Is that not a digital file?

…Zero Discipline

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ModelCitizen: Thanks Ron. Followed the link and went to order the SACD version and it’s trying to charge me shipping. Is that not a digital file?

SACD is a physical disc format. It’s like a CD, but with hi-res audio on it. These SACD discs are supposed to be hybrid discs, which will also play in a standard CD player, but with standard-res audio.

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Thanks. So it’s playable in HD on a turntable and standard when as a CD?

…Zero Discipline

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ModelCitizen: Thanks. So it’s playable in HD on a turntable and standard when as a CD?

No, it plays hi-res in an SACD compatible CD player. Some Sony Blu-ray players also recognize SACD discs.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Audio_CD

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