The MoFi Mess and TAS rolling over for them


Totally disgusted with TAS opinions on the mofi mess. They're basically saying it was okay to dupe us.  Jonathan Valin actually says as long as it sounds good...

What a sell out to the audiophile community.  TAS is nothing but a glorified product catalogue for their advertisers.  

 

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I'm really curious as to why Fremer left Stereophile for TAS. They must have made him an offer he couldn't refuse.I gave up on TAS when Robert Harley took over.

@bdp24 I’m sure they coughed up big bucks for Fremer to lower his standards and dumb down his reviews to TAS’ “standards.”  Sad really. 

"The proof is in the pudding" is a featherweight re-write of "the end justifies the means."  It is amazing that JV, the TAS editorial staff, the Stereophile editorial staff, et al. are so amazingly ignorant of even the most basic foundational principles of ethics.  I began writing a reply to the JV stupidity, only to realize I could not dumb down ethical reasoning to a sufficient level to address the inanities that comprise his "defense." 

And yet, I guess I'm part of the problem: I still subscribe to both mags, because I really want to learn more about technological developments in the audiophile universe.

 

I have bought a couple MO Fi products.  LP and CD.  Can't see, or hear, what all the fuss is about.  I have 40 year old vinyl that sounds every bit as good as the MO FI original masters re issue.  Maybe if I upgraded my amps power cord it would all become clear? 🤣