Up For Auction: Super Audiophile LP ~ In Spectacular Condition!!!

1982 Mobile Fidelity Sound Labs (MFSL) Records, 12 inch, 33 1/3 RPM Stereo LP, Cat. #MFSL 1-079, First Pressing. Featuring: Jim Croce. Titled: "You Don't Mewss Around With Jim".

Song Titles Include: 1. You Don't Mess Around With Jim // 2. Tomorrow's Gonna Be a Brighter Day // 3. New York's Not My Home // 4. Hard Time Losin' Man // 5. Photographs and Memories // 6. Walkin' Back to Georgia // 7. Operator (That's Not the Way It Feels) // 8. Time in a Bottle // 9. Rapid Roy (The Stock Car Boy) // 10. Box, No. 10 // 11. A Long Time Ago // 12. Hey Tomorrow.

If you are not familiar with this LP, Here's some additional information: "Croce's debut ABC album was also his commercial breakthrough, topping the charts for five weeks, largely due to the comic, up-tempo title tune, a story song about competing pool hustlers, although Croce also reached the Top 20 with the change-of-pace ballad "Operator (That's Not the Way It Feels)." Just after his death, ABC issued the track "Time in a Bottle," and a newly ironic message propelled it to number one".

Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab has been the undisputed pioneer and leader in audiophile recordings since the company's inception in 1977. Established by dedicated audiophiles, Mobile Fidelity's first and foremost goal was to offer faithfully reproduced high fidelity recordings that would compliment the numerous advances occurring in audio delivery systems. Throughout its history, Mobile Fidelity has remained true to this goal, pioneering state-of-the-art technologies and setting audiophile standards that remain in place today

If you're not familiar with Mobile Fidelity LP's and the painstaking process of making these incredible records, here's some additional information:

"Commercial record companies are in the business of providing a vast amount of music to tremendous numbers of people. In order to do this economically they take as little as an hour to cut a master lacquer disc, which is the first step toward ultimately producing the record you buy in the store.

We require a minimum of three months to make an Original Master Recording available to you. The difference is that we take the time necessary to achieve the kind of sound that not only lets you hear four clarinets, but hear the space between them.

To accomplish this we employ our exclusive "half-speed mastering" method. Normally, master lacquer discs are cut at 33 1/3 rpm (real time), the same speed at which you play a record on your turntable. Our master lacquer discs, however, are cut at half speed, or 16 6/7 rpm, while the master tape also plays at half speed. This allows us twice as much time to get every detail, every nuance of sound out of the stereo master tape and into the groove. It also allows the cutting stylus twice as much time to cut the groove accurately. And we always work from the original stereo master tape, never a second or third generation copy. MFSL's exclusive "half-speed mastering" also allows us to use only one-fourth the power that real time cutting takes. So we never have to push our cutting head amplifiers to their limits. This gives us much more head room for far superior dynamic range, top-end and overall frequency response, along with better stereo separation. And we don't use transformers or employ limiting in our cutting process. Nothing is introduced that will cause distortion or squeeze the life out of an Original Master Recording.

After our master lacquer disc is cut, it is carefully refrigerated and sent abroad, where the metal masters and stampers are made to produce the final pressings. Another long and painstaking process. It takes more than a month before we can hear the results of the metal masters alone.

Then, the pressings are made. And not on just vinyl, but on a material known as Super Vinyl. This, too, must be done abroad, in Japan at JVC. It is the only place in the world where such high quality vinyl is made. Super Vinyl gives us an ultra quiet playing surface. It's a vinyl that is heavier and harder than ordinary vinyl. And it has no "memory"... you can play an Original Master Recording over and over again, without having to let it rest after each play. When an ordinary, soft vinyl record is played repeatedly, the groove walls tend to stretch and distort and the sound deteriorates.

MFSL's exclusive process forces us to restrict the number of pressings we make. Commercial pressings by a top name artist number anywhere from three to ten million. There are never more than 200,000 copies made of an Original Master Recording, so the last pressing is as clear and accurate as the first. With time consuming "half-speed mastering" and our preoccupation with an exact sonic replica of the original master stereo tape, we'll never make all the music in the world. So we just make the best of it. We cut no corners. We make no compromises. What we do make is a record that is as close to handmade as you'll ever find. With us, it's a labor of love. We design every Original Master Recording to challenge your equipment and your listening ability.".

The Vinyl is Near Mint (9-9.5 of 10) in condition. With Original original Inserts and Inner Sleeve. The cover is nice. The issues to report: some very minor edge wear, minor shelf wear (most noticeable along the top seam) and moderate corner softening. Nothing too serious on this great LP!!

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