MFSL Eagles – On the Border [Ultradisc One Step LP]

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Already the title "On the Border" gives a hint that the Eagles dare a musical border crossing with this album. The band hits a harder gear, which leads out of their rather relaxed territory and establishes the US-Americans as a rock band. Glenn Frey, Don Henley, new member Don Felder and company announce their intentions right away in the defiant opening hit "Already Gone" and never look back. "On the Border" is arguably the Eagles' most consistent and balanced work from start to finish. The original analog tape is transferred to a 4x DSD file by MFSL, after individual adjustment of the tape's track position and bias setting for each track. From this, the lacquer cut is then made in the Sebastopol studio.
MFSL's one-step LP boxes are the measure of all things in the field of audiophile re-issues and can be placed qualitatively even above the other productions of the probably best-known remastering studio in the world. Special about the LPs is not only a new vinyl granulate without carbon colorants, which is used at RTI in Camarillo, but especially the one-step process of LP manufacturing. The only place you can get closer to the sound of the master tape is at MFSL's studio in California.
By this is meant the following: In normal LP productions, the lacquer cut is turned into an initial "father stamp with inverted groove structure." From this, a "mother stamp" with correct groove structure is then created. From this, the actual press stamp with inverted groove structure is then created and consumed for pressing the actual LP with correct groove structure. This approach allows almost any number of LPs to be pressed with just one coating cut.
In the One-Step process, this is all done much more simply. The actual coating cut itself is converted directly to the press die used to make the LP. So two steps of mechanical conversion are eliminated. Unfortunately, each coating cut can only produce a limited number of LPs. So if more than a few hundred LPs are to be produced, several lacquer cuts are needed. MFSL has issued the motto that a new set of press stamps should be used every 500 copies. This means that for a run of 7,500 copies, fifteen sets of the four lacquer cuts are used. However, since things sometimes go wrong in production, 18 sets are usually created at once. That means 72 lacquer cuts are made for the double LP. By hand, one after the other. Every day, the created lacquer cuts are flown by express to RTI for reworking and then a test pressing must be created for each side and also listened to in MFSL's studio. A time-consuming and also expensive process, resulting in an expensive product and high collector demand. The delivery is made in an elaborate box. The serial number is entered by hand on the back. MFSL states that there will be no further re-pressings.
This edition is limited to 10,000 copies.
1. Already Gone
2. You Never Cry Like a Lover
3. Midnight Flyer
4. My Man
5. On the Border
6. James Dean
7. Ol' ‘55
8. Is It True?
9. Good Day in Hell
10. Best of My Love