Eagles Hotel California 45RPM SuperVinyl Ultradisc One-Step Box Set (2 LP)

45rpm 180g 2LP Box Set!
Limited to 17,500 Numbered Copies!
MoFi SuperVinyl Pressed At RTI!
The Third Best-Selling Album in History Receives a Profound Upgrade Befitting Its Timeless Status Via Mobile Fidelity's UltraDisc One-Step 180g 45RPM 2LP Box Set: Eagles Hotel California Mastered from the 1/4"/15 IPS/Dolby A Analog Master to DSD 256 to Analog Console to Lathe and Pressed on MoFi SuperVinyl!
26-Time-Platinum Concept Album Plays Like an Epic Cinematic Film: Songs Boldly Address Consequences and Chaos of American Mythology, Celebrity, Art, and Entitlement!
Grammy-Winning 1976 Blockbuster Marks Debut of Guitarist-Vocalist Joe Walsh: Includes Iconic Title Track, "New Kid in Town," "Life in the Fast Lane," and "Victim of Love"!
Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Albums of All Time - Rated 118/500!
Released in 1976, "Hotel California" became one of the most successful albums in music history. After five triumphant years of record sales and exhausting tours, the Eagles' lightheartedness was gone. Instead, Don Henley, Don Felder, Glenn Frey, Randy Meisner and Joe Walsh embarked on a journey through the dark side of L.A., the dazzling metropolis on the West Coast where dream and nightmare are so close together.
The band's fascination with the Beverly Hills Hotel, the myth of Hollywood carved in stone, led the band to research hotels in general. The result was an iconic song, the exegesis of which continues to this day. "Hotel California" became a worldwide phenomenon that continues to appeal to music fans of all generations with its picturesque melodies, narrative depth and simplicity.
MFSL's one-step LP boxes are the measure of all things in the field of audiophile re-issues and are qualitatively even higher than the other productions of the world's most famous remastering studio. The original analogue tape was transferred to a 4xDSD file by the MFSL sound engineers, after an individual adjustment of the track position of the tape and the bias setting for each individual track were made. From this, the lacquer cut was created in the studio in Sebastopol. What is special about the LPs is not only a new vinyl granulate without carbon colorant, which is used at RTI in Camarillo, but above all the one-step process of LP production. You can only get closer to the sound of the master tape in the MFSL studio in California.
This means the following: In normal LP productions, the lacquer cut is transformed into a first "father stamp with inverted groove structure". This is then used to create a "mother stamp" with the correct groove structure. From this, the actual press punch with inverted groove structure is created and used for the pressing of the actual LP with the correct groove structure. This approach makes it possible to press almost any number of LPs with just one lacquer cut.
In the one-step process, this is all much easier. The actual lacquer cut itself is converted directly to the press stamp with which the LP is made. This eliminates two steps of mechanical conversion. Unfortunately, you can only make a limited number of LPs with each lacquer cut. So if more than a few hundred LPs are to be produced, you need several lacquer cuts. MFSL has issued the motto that a new set of press stamps should be used every 500 copies. This means that with a print run of 7,500 copies, fifteen sets of each of the four lacquer cuts are used. However, since things sometimes go wrong in production, 18 sentences are usually created at once. This means that 72 lacquer cuts are created for the double LP. By hand, one at a time. Every day, the lacquer cuts are flown by express to RTI for reworking and then a test pressing has to be created for each side and also listened to in the MFSL studio. A time-consuming and also expensive process that results in an expensive product and high collector demand. It is delivered in an elaborate box. The serial number is entered by hand on the back. MFSL declares that there will be no further repressings.
The moment the instantly recognizable intertwined guitar passage on the title track to the Eagles' Hotel California begins, the record's genius becomes obvious all over again. Ranked the 118th Greatest Album of All Time by Rolling Stone, certified by RIAA as the third best-selling LP in history, and considered the foundation on which the Golden State's mid-'70s music scene was built, the 1976 landmark is a music staple immune to shifts in trends, eras, and styles. Fearlessly addressing the chaos and consequences of American life, its songs remain strikingly prescient and gain credence with each passing day.
Mastered from the 1/4"/15 IPS/Dolby A analog master to DSD 256 to analog console to lathe, pressed on MoFi SuperVinyl, and limited to 17,500 numbered copies, Mobile Fidelity's UltraDisc One-Step 180g 45RPM 2LP vinyl box set ensures you will want to permanently check into and never leave this particular Hotel California. Up to the herculean task of standing head and shoulders above all prior reissues, this collectible edition plays with extreme clarity, organic richness, tube-like warmth, massive dynamics, and microscopic levels of detail. You'll be able to practically smell the colitas and feel the breeze in your hair. Songs come across with an epic sweep and feature immersive, front-to-back soundstages that allow the music unprecedented air, roominess, and separation. As for the noise floor? It's basically as invisible as the spirits that waft in the corridors of the unforgettable title song.
Aesthetically, the premium packaging and presentation of the UD1S Hotel California pressing befit its esteemed status. Housed in a deluxe box, it features gorgeous foil-stamped jackets and faithful-to-the-original graphics that illuminate the splendor of the recording. From every angle, this UD1S reissue exists as a curatorial artifact meant to be preserved, touched, and examined. It is made for discerning listeners who prize sound quality and production, and who desire to fully immerse themselves in everything involved with the album, from the renowned cover art to the meticulous finishes.
Indeed, the opportunity to zero in on all the particulars of the 26-million-selling Eagles record dubbed "a legitimate rock masterpiece" by vaunted Los Angeles Times scribe Robert Hilburn has never been better. A global phenomenon that marked the band debut of guitarist-singer Joe Walsh, Hotel California continues to resonate and connect with listeners of all generations taken by its narrative depth, stark directness, picturesque melodies, daring majesty, and ardent emotionalism. Adorned with a breathtaking exterior photograph of the Beverly Hills Hotel that serves as the simultaneously haunting and alluring cover art, and rounded out by a rear-cover shot of the Lido Hotel lobby that reinforces a notion that teeters between permanence and transience, Hotel California is brilliantly tied to a specific place that functions as a universally understood metaphor for the American Dream.
Confronting the darker undercurrents and oft-ignored constructs attached to that romantic notion, the record's songs revolve around a host of shared themes: excess, mobility, stability, illusion, fame, destruction, and idealism included. Notably, Hotel California appeared at a crucial junction in American history: During the country's bicentennial and amid escalating controversies related to the Vietnam War, energy crisis, and governmental corruption. That the Eagles manage to channel such cultural, social, and economical matters into a cohesive, stately, big-picture statement is alone a stupendous feat. That the album's reach, boldness, vitality, accessibility, and understated intensity have never waned make it a marvel.
Reflecting on Hotel California 40 years after its original release, and indirectly explaining its enduring appeal and increasing relevance, singer-songwriter Don Henley confirmed the record pertains to the "loss of innocence, the cost of naiveté...the difficulties of balancing loving relationships and work, trying to square the conflicting relationship between business and art; the corruption in politics, the fading away of the Sixties dream of 'peace, love and understanding.'"
It can be argued that Henley and company squarely hit on and drove home those ideas in the surreal title track, chart-topping "Life in the Fast Lane," and grand "The Last Resort" alone. But that would miss the forest for the trees. Experienced as an unbroken whole, complete with the pristinely shot imagery and physical grooves, Hotel California unfolds like a geography-conscious saga by James Michener and plays like color-saturated movie shot on 70mm film by Martin Scorsese. It's about our collective and individual decisions – and the shape of our past, present, and future. And, just like that conjured by our imaginations, Hotel California continues to take on a life of its own.
More About Mobile Fidelity UltraDisc One-Step and Why It Is Superior
Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab's UltraDisc One-Step (UD1S) technique bypasses generational losses inherent to the traditional three-step plating process by removing two steps: the production of father and mother plates, which are created to yield numerous stampers from each lacquer that is cut. For UD1S plating, stampers (also called "converts") are made directly from the lacquers. Since each lacquer yields only one stamper, multiple lacquers need to be cut. Mobile Fidelity's UD1S process produces a final LP with the lowest-possible noise floor. The removal of two steps of the plating process also reveals musical details and dynamics that would otherwise be lost due to the standard multi-step process. With UD1S, every aspect of vinyl production is optimized to produce the best-sounding vinyl album available today.
MoFi SuperVinyl
Developed by NEOTECH and RTI, MoFi SuperVinyl is the most exacting-to-specification vinyl compound ever devised. 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.
"The good folks at MoFi continue their quest to get listeners as close to the source of a studio album as possible with their Ultradisc One-Step series, which takes some unnecessary steps out of the vinyl pressing process that usually results in a degradation of sound quality. One recent stop on the audio company's journey finds them revisiting this 1976 blockbuster from L.A. rockers Eagles. It's a record that is ubiquitous in the collections and used bins of the world, having sold over 30 millions copies in its time. But, damn if MoFi hasn't delivered on their promise to shine fresh light on these American pop standards. The phased out edges of Don Henley's vocals on 'Life In The Fast Lane' shimmer like a richly detailed mirage, 'Victim of Love' reveals a vicious sting that has laid dormant all this while and Henley's insistent hi-hat becomes almost a duet partner on Joe Walsh's weeper 'Pretty Maids All In A Row.' As is the case with all of the One-Step releases to date, this new edition of Hotel California is worth every penny." - Robert Ham, Paste Magazine

Features:

• Numbered, Limited Edition - 17,500 Copies
• MoFi SuperVinyl Pressing
• UltraDisc One-Step
• 180g Vinyl
• 45rpm
• Double Vinyl Box Set
• Mastered from the 1/4" / 15 IPS / Dolby A Analog Master to DSD 256 to Analog Console to Lathe
• Opulent Box
• Foil-Stamped Jackets
• Production and Mastering by Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab
• Pressed at RTI

Musicians:

• Don Felder, guitars, backing vocals, pedal steel (on The Last Resort)
• Glenn Frey, guitars, backing vocals, keyboard, lead vocals
• Don Henley, drums, percussion, lead vocals, backing vocals, synthesizer
• Randy Meisner, bass, backing vocals, lead vocals, guitarron
• Joe Walsh, guitars, keyboards, backing vocals, lead vocals
• Jim Ed Norman, string arrabgements, conductor
• Sid Sharp, concert master

Selections:

Side A
1. Hotel California
2. New Kid In Town
Side B
1. Life In The Fast Lane
2. Wasted Time
Side C
1. Wasted Time (Reprise)
2. Victim Of Love
3. Pretty Maids All In a Row
Side D
1. Try And Love Again
2. The Last Resort