Roll up, roll up, let the AA have it’s say
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That was an easy choice before you changed it 
Still the same vote tho’
edit: stop fucking changing it 
Sorry. Didn’t realise editing it resets the poll.
Absolutely, definitely that perception, though more a case of it can be better than necessarily is.
The point about this explosion though isn’t so much about ultimate sound quality, Mofi make good records though worth noting the likes of Fremer haven’t tended to rate their recent albums among the best versions in recent years.
What grates for me is the deception and it strikes me that deception is about money. I think there’s an understanding among those buying these albums in particular new AAA recordings that you can’t just run off 50k of these things as and when you want. The process is inherently more time consuming and expensive, hence more expensive. A reasonable justification for high prices
Mofi can manipulate the digital file at will and run off 40k MJ albums or any other they have the files for for that matter. Not the deal they’ve been selling
There isn’t an “If using any digital just give me the file & I’ll put it onto tape for a nicer sound” option
(Basically what MoFi charge $$$ for, but they do it with vinyl).
Where’s the: Gimme a first pressing option?
Just for clarity, does that include DMM🧑🦯
No because that’s mental. But yes, that’s effectively what they’re doing.
Almost…because the mastering for vinyl has to be different, with added compression and limiting, mono-ed bass, etc.
In reality people conflate ‘analogue’ with ‘I like the way it’s mastered for vinyl’.
One @edd9000 is enough for anyone.
I only have one of those. Bjork Debut. I do buy new records that are digitally done too.
I will however stand by the opinion that I’ve yet to hear the best digital record eclipse a high quality all analogue pressing. I don’t just mean TAS list contenders here but hundreds of others before I even start in on MONO in a major way too (At least half of what I listen to is Mono). The first pressing thing does have something to do with sound but for the most part is down to a ridiculous collector affliction (Symptoms noted above).
I doubt there is any confusion here, but for clarity - I’m nuts.
TLDR: We’ve been lying to you and we’ve been found out, and we’re probably fucked as a business…
Doesn’t look like they will be cracking out the party poppers any time soon
Even a cursory scan of the Hoffman thread throws up several threats of litigation, it only takes a smart law dog and a few pissed off collectors whose collections value has now nosedived to set up a class action. Can’t see a happy ending for MoFi tbh.
Their apology may get weaponized against them.
Moral: Never rip off thousands of OCD sufferers, they go the extra mile.
On my way to our holiday abode, I called in on a customer who’d been borrowing a turntable & phono stage. Very serious about his analogue with a good sized record collection but, within it, a great stack of maybe 10-15 MoFi products still in their cellophane & in their beautiful packaging which he hadn’t brought himself to open for fear of their value being diminished. He did have other MoFi discs he had opened. To say he was not best pleased would be an understatement. I couldn’t bring myself to say that you shouldn’t have bought these as investment pieces. I think he probably didn’t intend to originally but, as noted above, the collectors’ ‘must have’ urge is a curse. There’ll be many thousands of similar such collectors not knowing what to do with these items now. Cash them in? Play them? Keep them unopened in the hope they keep some of their value?
I guess its the same ás with any art. First and foremost, buy it because you like it & want to enjoy it. Not as a speculation.
EDIT: Actually, maybe they would have made for a reasonable investment had they been what he and many thousands of others believed they were.
How many albums have they done over the years?
John Westlake got away with it.
