UHQR Vinyl Series

There’s a lot of test pressings that are not listed here as well. Also a few promo releases. The site mofi.com use to have a link on their website that listed all of the releases up until they were purchased by Music Direct in 2001. It also showed how many of each release was pressed. I can’t find it now, but if you them, they will probably send you the information. I guess they have redesigned their sight and they don’t have the link to the release history page now.

What I’m curious about is that Analouge Productions has started releasing a few pressings that are also called UHQR pressings. So that kind of makes things confusing. The MFSL UHQR pressings were pressed in Japan by JVC on a proprietary material called “Supervinyl” that was harder than regular vinyl pressings which created less surface noise and static. The same material was used in the 70s for the discrete four-channel quadraphonic system for Albums or CD-4 or Compatible Discrete 4 or as we know it as Quadrophonic. JVC quit producing its “Supervinyl” but still owns the rights to the formula. Also MFSL's first four half-speed master albums were pop-orchestral titles by the Mystic Moods Orchestra. I’ve never actually seen the releases, but I found an article about the UHQR pressings and it makes sense as the first Rock release was numbered MFQR 1-005. So I’m assuming the first four releases are those albums.

The new Ultradisc One-Step releases are very similar to the UHQR releases in the regard that are pressed using a proprietary SuperVinyl record compound developed by NEOTECH and RTI. So my next question is are the new Analouge Production titles released on a similar Supervinyl product or just high quality and heavyweight virgin vinyl?

Things to ponder considering that the Analouge Production pressing of Jimi Hendrix - Axis Bold As Love and Jethro Tull - Aqualung are extremely expensive if you didn’t get to pre-order a copy of these items. They sold for $150.00 new from the start. I like Analouge Productions as I have The Doors Box set and the albums are very well pressed and sound incredible as well. The covers and the other items are made of very thick cardboard and they are just incredible sounding albums.

Please feel free to tell me if I’m wrong about anything here I’ve posted. I don’t mind getting the facts straight if you know that I have made any mistake in this review.

Texasbear

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JETHRO TULL, AQUALUNG, Analogue Productions UHQR Release ?

I updated it Zemann, thanks!

there's "Earl Klugh - Finger Paintings" missing...
MFQR 1-025