Yeah musician first then cutting engineer then sound engineer then he went back cutting engineering because he liked having the final control in how a record sounded. possibly the only engineer that actually liked punk and thought it had real merit. His runout messages are legendary.
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Off topic,but a list of tracks,albums he was involved with
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I think he was the first engineer to master an album with concentric grooves. He really knew what he was doing.
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That is a pretty amazing life’s work. from The Beatles and Led Zed to ATV and Police Bastard with everyone who was anyone in between.
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More straightforward in my book
Those interested in expensive pressings new and old are prepared to pay premium for AAA product. Fully aware it’s an expensive process with limited availability. Whether it then becomes collectable isn’t really the point
No one buys ADA product at super premium prices and the record companies are well aware of that.
By implying their process was AAA Mofi made millions more than they would have done otherwise. That’s out of the pocket of those who bought the records
Whether they sound decent or not isn’t really the point, for me anyways
Don’t have any Mofi records, never felt those that I’d heard justified the high prices - golden ears eh 
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Record collecting comes in many forms, some stranger than others.
Fetlar recordcollectorman doesn’t care about sound quality, doesn’t even care (to a large extent) about the condition. His sole criteria for buying is how rare is it
He has many thousands of LPs, singles, and even some 78s - he recently told me he sold a Robert Johnson 78 (he still owns another one) for what he would only describe as a 5 figure sum He hates blues music! but it was rare. Apparently he needed to raise funds as some Japanese LP purchase that he’s been after for years became available.
He’s batshit crazy btw, for many reasons, quite apart from his record collecting obsession.
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As somebody with an addictive personality, this doesn’t seem outlandish.
Wine, watches, Pokemon, comic books, or any item that has a value to somebody, will have it’s obsessives. They only have to justify it to themselves.
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But a good salesman
Any more crazy than a stamp or book (Add on) collector? Rare is Rare, the criteria is straightforward. I have a friend who only collects unreleased acetates, he’s not interested in sound quality. For him it;'s all about the artifact - The treasure hunt. In the US the Pre War Blues collectors were probably the pioneers of record collecting. This book is fun
The Northern soul guys also went right through the ringer with various ways of collecting. So what gets spat out the other end for these two battered and demented groups ?
THE HOT BOX
The Hot box is a stage 4 concept . It means selling all the dross, rob, steal, fail, to pay the mortgage, get a divorce and focus on only buying the rarest best condition records out there. Collections of 20K+ condensed to 5-600 titles. Refine & Distill (Forget to wash or have a life)
Oh, he’s very heavily into that.
Audio Archeology, turns the obsession up to warp speed.
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I confess, I’m perplexed by this. Isn’t the whole point of favouring AAA over ADA and paying a premium price for it is the perception that AAA is superior and therefore worth the premium. Otherwise why?
Notwithstanding the fact that AAA is not necessarily superior.
Emphasis on perception.
Also a fair number of MoFi releases have monkeyed around with the EQ, presumably to make them sound different, and therefore better to someone who doesn’t know the difference, to the original pressing, even when they were using the proper master tapes.
The smiley face EQ they put on releases like their Beatles box was a fucking disaster.
Yes, it’s a belief system and not supported by the facts.
MoFi - the bitcoin of record labels 
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NFT=not from tape
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Hah, I was just going to edit my post to say “like Bitcoin and other ponzi schemes”.
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The best thing is listening to the outrage of some of the really butthurt fuckers who are screaming about how they’re gonna dump all their MoFi albums and sell them in protest against the lies and deceit they were only too happy to ignore when they bought them
‘What even the ones that sound fucking great?’
Response - ‘not any more they don’t, I’m so let down… boo hoo…’
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Mofiman has an all analogue playback system and wishes to feed it all analogue, otherwise he would have bought a squeezebox.
He drives a diesel car and doesn’t put unleaded in it either.
A man with such a mind has been had over.
There is a charm in knowing it was all done the original way. I like that idea myself though I don’t really know why I like it.
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