Washington Post article on MoFi vs. Fremer vs. Esposito


Here's a link to a Washington Post article on the recent dustup with MoFi. The comments section (including posts by Michael Fremer) are interesting.

Disclaimer: This is a "public service announcement, a point Im adding since some forum members complained the last article I referenced here was "paywall protected", I'll note that, for those who are non-subscribers, free access to limited numbers of articles is available by registering (trade-off: The Post will deluge you with subscription offers)

kacomess

@clearthinker You may or may not be correct on misrepresentation issue, suppose it depends on how expectations of purchasers presented in court.

 

I did mention the psychological bias in my post. And yes, Mofi could lose based on that bias. Psychological harms may indeed be inflicted and compensated by courts, I don't believe that fair.

 

I quit purchasing modern vinyl perhaps five or six years ago, have much vinyl from 50's-70's, many very high sound quality, assume from original or early generation masters, some hot stampers.

@sns    As to MoFi losing a case on the basis of alleged listener bias, I doubt the cleverest and most devious lawyer (even in the States) could prove a case, even on the balance of probabilities test, using evidence based on unprovable psychological listener bias.  I wonder if he would have to present double blind ABX tests in court?  Might get interesting.

Yeah, me too on modern vinyl.  MoFi at the start apart, I still think the glory days started with HMV and Decca and the development of the LP in the late 1950s and were largely gone by 1970.   Yes, I have 3000 odd of those.

What next? Cuban cigars with a smattering of North Carolina tobacco?
 Jim Davis’s response makes sense to me but some will call it spin.

All the best,
Nonoise

At least as printed on the MoFi website, the questions lobbed to Davis are all marshmellows.  Presumably because MoFi advertises on TAS