Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab has been cutting vinyl from digital since a long, long time ago...

Yeah, it’s refreshing to read “you just don’t understand” coupled with a pithy put-down about a person’s cognitive abilities, again and again. Makes for a swell interchange of ideas. Not that I expect a guy with a handle like yours to really be interested in an honest conversation about what ELSE beyond Mofi’s dishonest advertising and claims is revealed by this entire event.

 

WAXtime needs to get into the One Step business

 

Yes it was. On SONY PCM 1610.

 

Yeah but in my example I was talking about Production Masters, not 1:1 copies.

 

I honestly don't think I could hear a difference either way. We are speaking theoretically here. There is always loss in the signal and added noise in an analog copy.
Our host said he patched the damaged original master tape of Aqualung to avoid using a copy tape. That means something too.

 

Still laughing to the bank...so far.

 

Agree, I don't think I could hear it either. Blind tests are a bit of a taboo around here though.

 

No, an analog recording.

Mixed to Sony 1610 2-track digital.

 

what do you think a copy tape is....

Production masters historically at least were EQ'd and compressed and ready to go...

 

This is a very good move by Mofi. If only they had been this transparent from the beginning...

 

This is the fastest growing thread I have ever seen in my 20 years on this forum!!!!

 

I sold my MFSL LP collection (about 500 LPs, no one steps) to a collector last week.

 

You're right. My mistake.

 

As a result of the revelations and, if it’s not too cheeky of me to ask, did it command the price you expected pre-revelation?

 

It's a start, now for them to post a few videos showing their process in action. Preferably one where they have to lug their own gear to another location and do all the A/D conversion work themselves.

 

I am pretty sure I wouldn't be able to hear the difference.

 

I know

The question I was raising is whether that method (i.e the way the vast majority of AAA records were historically cut) is preferable to members than the modern method of making a digital transfer of the actual master tape (when it exists).

 

You stopped buying and playing vinyl years ago. Selling your collection has nothing to do with this discussion. Once again you have no credibility regarding mofi.

 

By the time the list is complete, it might prove quicker to post the titles without DSD conversion...

 

The new audiophile camps, MoFi or no MoFi.

 

JG

 

it would depend on who did them back in the day and not all were done that way, many were done in real time cutting the lacquer ... RVG did it that way for one, I believe some of the beatles were done that way as well....

production masters were often done then sent to other parts of the world etc

 

Nowhere did it say it "sounds better," much less better to what. It (they) say "for superior sound"-to what, and to whom.

 

especially if mofi say so

 

I forgot to give mention to Ken Micallef. He's my "when life hands you lemons" guy. He's not only a journalist and a music critic he's a drummer and works in a record store on the weekends and does odd jobs to make ends meet and pay his alimony. Yet he still finds time to grab a cigar and go sit on the stoop and chat with the neighbors.