Mobile Fidelity - UDSACD 2162 - SACD Hybrid Stereo -

Numbered Limited  Edition - Plays On All CD Players

Half Speed Mastered by Shawn R Britton from the Original Master Tape at MFSL

Mastered on the Mobile Fidelity GAIN 2™  Ultradisc UHR™ Hybrid SACD 

The Cars” is a magnificent piece of work built upon flawless performances. Outstanding Production plus Excellent Recording/Engineering plus Original Master Tapes equals a Demonstration Quality SACD. Another distinguished release from MFSL. Sound 5/5 Music 5/5 Rick Kosmick  HRAudio.net

This new sacd is a revelation, a very wide soundstage & great clarity with lots of detail. IMHO this is the sacd to beat  AV review

 

Let the Good Times Roll: Transparent Hybrid SACD of The Cars Sounds Amazing 

 

The Cars’ Classic 1978 Debut a Veritable Greatest Hits Album: Nearly Every Song a Radio Staple 

 

"My Best Friend's Girl," "Just What I Needed," "You're All I've Got Tonight" Among Tunes on the Hit Parade  

 

The Cars' Candy-O, Shake It Up, and Heartbeat City Also Available from Mobile Fidelity

 

One of the most successful and enjoyable debuts in history, The Cars doubles as a greatest-hits collection. That’s because not one song here is unrecognized or unknown. A huge reason why the Boston quintet became America’s most popular new-wave band, The Cars launched eight tracks still regularly heard on radio stations everywhere. Consider the hit list: “You’re All I’ve Got Tonight.” “Good Times Roll.” “Just What I Needed.” “Moving in Stereo.” “My Best Friend’s Girl.” “Don’t Cha Stop.” If you’re a fan of pop music, this album is mandatory. Just call it the best new-wave rock album ever made.

 

And now, The Cars sounds better than it has in any previous digital incarnation. Mastered from the original analog tapes, Mobile Fidelity’s numbered limited-edition SACD allows the music’s oscillating rhythms, futuristic keyboard passages, panned stereo images, and rippling textures to be experienced like never before. The songs take on a surreal quality, the Cars manipulating the vibrant music at will to mesmerize the listeners’ senses and hold them at bay. Mobile Fidelity’s transparent SACD epitomizes the sensation of “moving in stereo!”

 

Led by Ric Ocasek and Benjamin Orr, the Cars managed to unite then-disparate styles: bubblegum pop melodies, angular art rock, progressive arrangements, and terse minimalism. Orr’s low, understated singing and Ocasek’s cool, detached vocals lend shades of doubt and double meaning to the lyrics, which are further counterbalanced by orchestral keyboard flourishes and electronic beats. The brilliant arrangements also benefit from a laidback cool and understated irony that remain uncommon in the over-the-top world of mainstream music. Obsessed with incorporating the latest technologies and sounds into its palette, the band spiced its tunes with delightfully quirky accents—country-tinged guitar fills, echoing Syndrums, reggae splashes, hard-rock tones, robotic pulses.

 

The results are the sounds of a creative landmark. At once accessible and eccentric, edgy and catchy, The Cars explodes with emotion, energy, and hooks. It’s impossible not to get caught up humming and singing along to every song, an appeal that comes courtesy of Roy Thomas Baker’s stellar production. The legendary producer, best known for his work with Queen, ensured that the record seamlessly packed a smooth midrange, spacious imaging, and call-and-answer choruses in one tight package. Baker’s trademark touches with harmony vocals abound.

 

Don’t wait on this pop gem. 

 

Drums – David Robinson
Keyboards – Greg Hawkes
Lead Guitar – Elliot Easton
Producer – Roy Thomas Baker
 Bass – Benjamin Orr
Vocals,  Written-By – Ric Ocasek

 

The Cars Track Listing:

 

1. Good Times Roll 

2. My Best Friend's Girl

3. Just What I Needed   

4. I'm in Touch With Your World  

5. Don't Cha Stop  

6. You're All I've Got Tonight 

7. Bye Bye Love  

8. Moving in Stereo   

9. All Mixed Up 

 

Mobile Fidelity believes that mastering systems should be neutral and transparent. The essential idea is to unveil all the detailed musical information on the original master recording without adding deterioration, coloration or other sonic artifacts. 

It is worth noting that Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab stands out as one of few record labels that independently invests in research and development of audio technology. With proprietary innovations such as GAIN 2™, general music enthusiasts and audiophiles alike have reaped the benefit of a higher consumer audio standard without investing in costly new hardware. Mobile Fidelity is pleased to work with a variety of engineering legends and companies including Tim de Paravicini, Ed Meitner, Pass Labs, Theta Digital and Sony Electronics. 

Our joint efforts to seek out the ultimate audio experience, has resulted in significant advances for the technology of music reproduction. 

GAIN 2™ Mastering Technology for Ultradisc UHR™ Hybrid SACD and Ultradisc II™ 24kt Gold CDs 

For over twenty years, Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab has continually searched for the ultimate audio experience. During this search MFSL engineers and associates created The GAIN™ System, a proprietary mastering technology which brought warmth and ambience to the compact disc format. A few years ago - with higher resolution formats on the horizon - the vision of GAIN 2™ began. As it stands today, GAIN 2™ is one of the greatest technical advancements in analogue and digital technology in the last ten years. It consists of a series of critical modifications and new components to Mobile Fidelity's proprietary mastering chain. 

We feel that GAIN 2™ has come extremely close to meeting this goal. The key accomplishments of GAIN 2™ System are 1) the ability to extract all the musical information as possible through the Ultra High bandwidth analogue tape playback system with proprietary custom tape playback heads, reproducer electronics and 2) transparently capturing and storing that information with the Direct Stream Digital recording system.