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

Discussion in 'Music Corner' started by Ben Adams, Jul 14, 2022.

  1. deadcoldfish

    deadcoldfish Senior Member

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    Yep, it’s the remix master that they used and I guess couldn’t tell.
     
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  2. Joe Stark

    Joe Stark "Sad wanker" - Michael Fremer

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    Next you're going to tell me Malachi is a journalist.
     
  3. recordhead

    recordhead Forum Resident

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    :laughup:
     
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  4. Otto Konrad

    Otto Konrad Forum Resident

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    Bill has it right. The “Cover” was that upon an inquiry to MFSL about where Bernie Grundman and an analog mastering went from the press release, MFSL told him it was cut from tape but asked him to wait till he got back from Munich show when they would get back with more details. MFSL did NOT tell him it was mastered from a digital source. Tape. Mike sat on that. And why not. Nothing seemingly wrong. reasonable request.
     
  5. Record labels will always prefer streaming over physical product today. Would you prefer selling your product and waiting weeks or months getting paid after big investments ? With steaming you get paid almost immediately and you can adjust releases and playlists almost at a flick of a switch.
     
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  6. Otto Konrad

    Otto Konrad Forum Resident

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    He is. Doing pretty spectacular record reviews for a “print” publication. Green but very talented.
     
  7. marcb

    marcb Senior Member

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    You just won the internet today... :biglaugh:
     
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  8. recordhead

    recordhead Forum Resident

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    I write news for a radio station. I was a straight D- student from 4th grade - 12th. It looks like I'm a journalist too!
     
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  9. kamchatka

    kamchatka Forum Resident

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    Maybe the rental company assured him he was getting an electric vehicle, but when he looked under the hood he discovered it was actually gas-powered.
     
  10. marcb

    marcb Senior Member

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    An overqualified one...
     
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  11. thrivingonariff

    thrivingonariff Forum Resident

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    Point taken. I'm not claiming that Fremer is a paragon of journalistic professionalism---he's not, imo---or that he's in the same league as Murrow, but he does qualify as a "journalist."
     
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  12. Bill Hart

    Bill Hart Forum Resident

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    Thanks Otto. Who knew there were so many lawyers here at SH Forums? And we've generally been well behaved too!
     
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  13. Static

    Static Forum Resident

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    Just flipping thru youtube and found this dude saying "Vinyl is a Farse" and turntables are a "hustle" LOL. Unbelievable.

    So ...do you guys think this MOFI thing is supporting these clueless posters?
     
  14. kundryishot

    kundryishot Forum Resident

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    I did, and he doesn't
    Fremer's vid was considerate and measured
     
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  15. Too old for people m here but it was an important ending for an article put out by a non audio industry publication. Most civilian readers wouldn’t know that so it’s new to them. Not old news.
     
  16. DaveyF

    DaveyF Forum Resident

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    My question, why are we believing that Fremer would have done an interview that would NOT have attempted to 'pivot' far away from the issue at hand here....the non-disclosure, malfeasance and possible fraud that MoFi has been committing to for about a decade! Since it seems that he is 'bought and paid for' by his own admission...:cussing:
     
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  17. PRESS to play

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  18. Otto Konrad

    Otto Konrad Forum Resident

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    Call him a cub reporter.

    Some of us are equating a journalist as a “investigative” journalist. Fremer has a long history of researching topics, asking questions and writing cogent articles. I wouldn’t call him an investigative journalist. But definitely a journalist. Not sure what to call Mike E. RecordStoreOwnerYouTuberCos-PlayingJournalist” for a day?

    MOFI tapped him to come in because they thought he’d be a friendly ear. They didn’t count on it turning in to the auto-asphyxiating party it did. More credit to MOFI stupidity than the very softball questions Mike E asked.
     
  19. FWatty

    FWatty Collector of Zuni Fetish Dolls

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    I'd think at least a quarter of the interview would have been about Fremer himself.
     
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  20. audiotom

    audiotom I can not hear a single sound as you scream

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    Better yet Klaus Kinski rip

    Who is playing Mike Esposito?
    How about Mike Pompao or Ron Desantis
     
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  21. kundryishot

    kundryishot Forum Resident

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    full of jitter unfortunately; the technology was in its early days
     
  22. Bill Hart

    Bill Hart Forum Resident

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    Without getting down on today's standards for journalism (ahem), I think Fremer would say he learned to write from Harry Pearson, who was a journalist at Newsday on Long Island (environmental issues back in the day?).
    He's done a lot. He's written a lot.
    As an aside, I'm close to finishing (reading, not writing) a book on the history of surgery. It explains how early on, surgeons were separated from "Medicine" and doctors, who were more educated, but as needs arose, surgeons became professionals, had to adhere to standards, be part of professional organizations, write papers, do stuff in the field in addition to wielding a knife. Without going on at length here, the author traced the emergence of what you would consider a profession, as distinct from "barber-surgeons."
    I have huge respect for people that aren't necessarily credentialed but know stuff, how it works, and can explain it clearly. Fremer has certainly spent his time in the field, turntable set ups, hanging out with manufacturers and reviewing. I would consider him qualified even if some people find him annoying. But that doesn't mean IG Mike was unqualified for this purpose, as most of us acknowledge. Without IG Mike, the story may have eventually come out, but his expose lit up the Internet like a lightening bolt. And got MoFi to act.
     
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  23. thrivingonariff

    thrivingonariff Forum Resident

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    This is a mischaracterization of Fremer's generally reasonable comments about Mike E's role in this.
     
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  24. Fruff76

    Fruff76 L100 Classic - Fan Club President

    Check mate
     
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  25. dkmonroe

    dkmonroe A completely self-taught idiot

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    Well, I figure that if anybody can say authoritatively that analog sounds more "natural" than digital, it is the guy who I know to have done many excellent masterings in both analog and digital formats, and from analog and digital sources. I also believe that he has first hand experience in making good sounding LPs from digital copies.

    I've never heard "some of his stuff sounds just plain bright." Grundman is literally the only mastering engineer I've never heard a bad word about. But there's always someone to say an engineer's stuff is "bright." It's like saying a drummer can't "swing."

    As to the statement about analog sounding more "natural" than digital - we don't know the context, we don't know what else Bernie said, we only have that snippet and the regularly scheduled outrage. I'm not worshipping at Bernie's feet, I'm just saying, whatever the context and the reasoning, I'll give him the benefit of the doubt, at least enough to not write him off as an imbecile.
     

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