Bob Dylan Blood On the Tracks #D Ltd Ed 180g 45rpm 2LP MOFI One Step (Ex)

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TAS Rated 5/5 Music, 4/5 Sonics in the October 2019 Issue of The Absolute Sound!
 
  Limited to Just 9000 Hand-Numbered Copies!
    MoFi SuperVinyl Pressing!
 
   
  Mastered from the Original Master Tapes with Mobile Fidelity's One-Step   Process: Blood On The Tracks UD1S 180g 45RPM 2LP Box Set the Ultimate Analog   Version
 
  Lavish Packaging Includes Opulent Box, Foil-Stamped Jackets, and SuperVinyl   LPs: Deluxe Audiophile Pressing Strictly Limited to 9,000 Hand-Numbered Copies 
  
  Ranked #16 on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, Includes   "Tangled Up in Blue" and "Simple Twist of Fate": Dylan Pours Out Scarred   Emotion, Opens His Veins, and Bleeds
 
  Bob Dylan was at several crossroads in the mid 1970s. Artistically, he was   largely written off as being past his prime. Emotionally, he was suffering   through a painful divorce from his then-wife Sara Lowndes. Creatively, he   appeared at a stalemate, his previous decade's unprecedented run of   transformational brilliance finished. Then came Blood on the Tracks. A   start-to-finish cycle that documents a lover's pursuit of, entanglement with,   and loss of a woman, the bracingly intimate 1975 effort remains one of the most   encompassing break-up albums ever made and ranks as the most personal statement   of the Bard's career.
 
  Presenting the record's acoustic and band-supported songs with the utmost   transparency, dynamics, presence, immediacy, spaciousness, and imaging, Mobile   Fidelity's opulent UD1S (UltraDisc One-Step) box set makes Blood on the Tracks   reach three-dimensional sonic and emotional heights never before attained.   Strictly limited to 9,000 numbered copies and pressed at RTI on SuperVinyl, this   ultra-hi-fi collector's edition shines a high-powered light on the fluid vocal   phrasing, timbral shifts, functional rhythms, and inward-looking strumming   crucial to the album's aura. You'll enjoy deep-black backgrounds, boundless   soundstaging, pointillist details, staggering dynamics, and arguably, the most   lifelike tonalities and nuances ever committed to vinyl. Every note, breath, and   movement is reproduced with exquisite accuracy, wowing clarity, and impeccable   balance.
 
  The lavish packaging and beautiful presentation of Mobile Fidelity's Blood on   the Tracks UD1S pressing befit its extremely select status. Housed in a deluxe   box, the collectible version contains special foil-stamped jackets and   faithful-to-the-original graphics that illuminate the splendor of the recording.   Aurally and visually, it exists a curatorial artifact meant to be preserved,   poured over, touched, and examined. It is made for discerning listeners that   prize sound quality and creativity, and who desire to fully immerse themselves   in the art – and everything involved with the album, from the images to the   textures and liner notes.
 
  Ranked 16 on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, and   replete with existential thought, piercing directness, raw singing, and majestic   arrangements, Blood on the Tracks remains a soul-exposing confessional. To hear   it is to experience the agony, frustration, trauma, highs, lows, confusion,   sadness, and, ultimately, requisite redemption associated with intimate   relationships gone astray. Dylan maintains it's a work of fiction, but the   evident close-vested autobiographical premise is what helps make it universal:   It's the icon singing through tears, going out of his mind, battling hallowing   emptiness, firing shots across the bow, and accepting culpability. Blood on the   Tracks serves, in short, as a consummate expression of love's darker sides and   the consequences of what happens when dreams unravel.
 
  For all the melancholic pain, unresolved questions, shattered memories, wasted   times, unrequited dialogs, and weary regret within, Blood on the Tracks remains   as daring as it is reflective. Rather than follow for a monotone caustic vibe,   Dylan's songs burrow into the subconscious for the manners in which they are   even-keeled, mellow, and occasionally, even peaceful. Dignity, honor, poignancy,   and fairness – all traits uncommon in any situation in which partners dissolve   histories, change hearts, and attribute blame – instill the record with   equilibrium on par with the consistency of the flowing melodies.
 
  Throughout, tunes come on and proceed as if they could continue forever, Dylan   spinning poetic verses and conversations amidst finely tied knots of acoustic   notes, chords, and fills, the deceivingly simple architecture conjuring the   intertwined refractions of a bezeled jewel, various angles, colors, and textures   conjoining into a gorgeously inseparable whole. Backed by Tony Brown's flexible   albeit subtle bass, Buddy Cage's country-streaked pedal-steel guitar, and Paul   Griffin's soul-baring organ – an instrument used to shadow, tuckpoint, and   illuminate here as effectively as any time in rock history – Dylan pours out   scarred emotion, open his veins, and bleeds.
 
  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.
 
  MoFi SuperVinyl: The World's Quietest Surfaces and Cleanest Grooves:
  Developed by NEOTECH and RTI, MoFi SuperVinyl is the most   exacting-to-specification vinyl compound ever created. Analog lovers have never   seen (or heard) anything like it. Extraordinarily 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 new carbonless dye (hold the disc up to the light   and see) and produces the world’s quietest surfaces. This high-definition   formula also allows for the creation of cleaner grooves that are   indistinguishable from the original lacquer. MoFi SuperVinyl provides the   closest approximation of what the label’s engineers hear in the mastering lab.
 
  "...MoFi brings these tender rocky, lyrical tunes to life with a 45rpm   180-gram 2-LP box set using its One-step Process, which skips the conventional   "father" and "mother" sequence and brings the disc significantly closer to the   cutting lacquer and original master tape. "Shelter from the Storm" is a prime   example of how One-Step recovers detail and layers, emboldens presence range,   and further extends the upper and lower octaves. From the guitar / acoustic bass   intro to the forward and full-bodied Dylan vocal, the absence of veiling is   clear. Importantly, the detail and resolution that emerges is from lack of   distortion, not dialed-in EQ. A revelation when compared with the   midrange-centered, reedy, and edgier character of the original Columbia vinyl,   the One-Step BOTT is a flat-out must have." - Neil Gader, The Absolute   Sound, October 2019 

  Features:
    • Hand-Numbered, Limited Edition - Only 9000 Copies
  • MoFi SuperVinyl Pressing
  • UltraDisc One-Step
  • 45rpm Speed Edition
  • 2LP Box Set
  • Special foil-stamped jackets
  • Housed in an opulent box
  • Faithful to original graphics
  • Production and Mastering by Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab
 
  Selections:
  1. Tangled Up In Blue
  2. Simple Twist Of Fate
  3. You're A Big Girl Now
  4. Idiot Wind
  5. You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go
  6. Meet Me In The Morning
  7. Lily, Rosemary And The Jack Of Hearts
  8. If You See Her, Say Hello
  9. Shelter From The Storm
  10. Buckets Of Rain