New Mobile Fidelity titles in latest Music Direct catalog*

Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid 180g vinyl release will be a day one buy for me. I have a decent copy but I'm interested to hear their treatment.

 

Oh great didn’t know this was coming out as well. What a great record my copy is slightly noisy so instant buy for me too. Are there any other new for 2018 titles?

 

I don't really mind the overlap if it keeps these titles in audiophile quality in print. Just cuz some got these titles already doesn't mean everyone does nor does everyone have the ability to pay OOP prices. Having said that, an expansion into newer/not yet audiophile mastered stuff is also welcome.

 

I thought the recent Audio Fidelity releases have been anything but predictable., especially the multi-channel releases.

 

Just listened to a clean original 2-eye mono of Parsley Sage last night, and it’s a winner! I wonder what a good reissue could bring.

 

Funny you say that. I just got the Japanese mono singles collection. Mint. If Simon is really the one stopping this he's wrong. The mono S&G mixes destroy the stereo mixes.

 

I think what's happening is that some classic Rock acts are much easier to license, while others are basically impossible. The audiophile labels are limited to what the major labels allow them.

I'm sure a Led Zeppelin SACD would sell very well but they are impossible to license. I am surprised none of them have issued Roy Orbison's greatest hits on SACD yet...Roy's stuff seems easy to license.

 

Celine already got re-released earlier this year....on single-layer, multi-channel SACD, no less.

 

I was actually hoping that MOFI would pull back their upcoming standard 2x45 LP release of Dire Staits' debut album in order to give it the UD1S treatment.

 

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If I were in charge, I'd also include the mono singles on Bridge Over Troubled Water

 

No Thanks - the standard 45 rpms are expensive enough here at £70.

 

I picked this one up as my original somehow got lost. These were going for big bucks before this re-release.

 

What happened to the great Audio Fidelity we have known many years ago?

Are they about to fold due to lack of good releases?

 

I got both LP and SACD MoFi versions of this from Amazon.ca to see if they would better my HDCD. Not as much as I was hoping IMHO. Have seen reviews stating otherwise. Maybe my expectations were too high after waiting all these years. Nevertheless, it still sounds great on any medium that I have. Now I wonder if the SACD of A Salty Dog will better my original LP? I've got to get out of the house more (damn Canadian winter is coming).

 

I do not have inside information, but it seems that the resurgence of vinyl created an industry-wide demand for remastering and repressing titles. For example - Led Zepplin, Pink Floyd, The Beatles and King Crimson started a remastering and reissue program where the band was either involved in the remastering, reissuing label or both. It would be suicide for a band or label to allow MFSL to reissue what could very well become the definitive audio reissue. Even if a superior MFSL remastering had a limited run, the shadow that it would cast over the band or label's reissue would be devastating. The label has absolutely nothing to win.

 

I think you overestimate our little audiophile world here.

 

The labels don't like licensing out hi-rez versions of their masters for their better acts and most popular albums.

 

When someone gets their catalog, please post what the SACD hybrids will be.

 

You can tell by looking at the covers. The "one-step" titles have a black border and gold banner.

 

That may very well be a part of it, but I think there might be some other reasons as well. Look around here and watch the discussions of digital pressed to vinyl. Even here we still buy it, and I used to too. There is concern if it sounds good, compared to what is already out there for sure, but not that it sounds best ala Mobile Fidelity, Analogue Productions, Analog Spark quality. Since the average consumer sure as heck doesn't seem to care and even here we don't stop and say "hey, there are analog tapes and you went digital! I will stick to another copy or just the CD" there is absolutely no incentive to outsource the mastering and sales to somone like Mobile Fidelity when they can keep control and pocket all the profits. Eventually the majors might let MOFI and the like have a shot at selling some more modern records, once they have completely milked what they can do themselves, which is why we see 900 pressings of Miles Davis and a new Simon and Garfunkel and not the depth of other titles we would like. When the regular mass-market copies are saturated, then its time for some upscales sales. Anyway, you may be right and I might not be. It might also be there just isn't the demand for high quality with other artists that we think there is. But as with you no inside information, just another perspective.

 

Another thing I want to throw out there: sometimes, the MoFi is equal in price (or even sometimes cheaper!) then the normal reissues. Cyndi Lauper's She's so Unusual sells for about $25, the reissue (with totally different cover art, no less) goes for about $30. The MoFi of Echo and the Bunnymen's Heaven Up Here was the same until the most recent spate of reissues.

So yeah, why outsource? Especially since the result won't just be superior, but cheaper?

 

Eleven months ago (Dec 22nd 2016) I pre-ordered every MFSL SACD that Music Direct had listed on their site as "TBA."

As of today (Nov 25th 2017), these are the status statistics the 26 SACDs I had pre-ordered last December:

• Received = 16
  
• "Backordered" = 10

I'm wondering when all of the newly-announced titles will be available on MusicDirect.com as "TBA" to pre-order?

Craig.

 

On CD?

 

We had one.

 

Audio Fidelity gets to do Jeff Beck Truth I'm excited. I would hope for the first three Arthur Lee & Love albums where Steve could do his masterpiece on Forever Changes. Than Steve could do The Hook albums great L.A. band in the mid 60s.