MoFi controversy

A couple of thoughts:

1. This is about misleading marketing practices...not which one sounds the best. A One Step could be made from an 8-track tape dub and may be the best sounding ever. However, the box needs to say the source and signal chain for such expensive pressings. 

2. Analog vs Digital. My guess with today's digital converters one would need to hear the original master tape and then a flat transfer(DSD) from that tape. Any sound quality differences at the consumer level probably has more to do with the mastering tweaks and/or format (LP, etc) and it's inherited sound charactoristics.

Fill the same as aberyclark

Once you tell the lie and know that it's going to produce fooled buyers how can we trust MOFI again.

@tomcy6  Found it.

https://mydigitalpublication.com/publication/?i=751045&article_id=4294938&view=articleBrowser&ver=html5

Thanks @twoleftears .  I'll definitely read it.  Should be interesting.

@optimize Dynamic compression is not an overlooked problem. It is discussed often here and on other forums. It is by far the biggest problem for digital formats and is contributing to the vinyl resurgence among audiophiles.

There is little we can do about it other than to not buy overly compressed recordings (actually the problem is often overly limited music, limiting is making quiet sounds louder, I believe). The major and many independent labels insist on dynamically compressing digital music in spite of many complaints. We can only hope this practice will end one day.

MoFi’s customers are fired up because they have been misled, to put it diplomatically. They are right to be outraged about MoFi’s marketing of their vinyl. Let the vinyl folks have their say. The dynamic compression issue will not go away.