MoFi controversy

Tonight I decided to do a shoot out between my MoFi ’Anadisc’ Muddy Waters ’Folk Singer’ and the newly released ’One Step’ of the same title.I had done a similar ’AB’ when I first acquired the ’One Step’ and in some ways i felt it to better the ’Anadisc’.

One thing I had noticed on the first ’AB’ was that the ’One Step’ seemed to be a little more specific in its soundstage reproduction.Tonight, I began to hear where the ’Anadisc’ has it all over the new release...and it is in the ’warmth’ of Buddy and Muddy’s guitars. To that, the ’Anadisc’ is far more dynamic when it comes to Muddy’s voice...I had noticed this aspect before, but thought it might have been because the ’One Step’ had been mastered at a lower level..Now I believe the DSD step is the culprit here.Why MoFi could not have used the AAA master for their ’One Step’ is unknown, but of all of the ’One Step’s I own, I think the biggest error they made was not using the incredible sounding original master for this one!

@daveyf: I too have the old MoFi Folk Singer, and have never felt the need to own another version. But Analogue Productions has a 1-LP/33-1/3 RPM version of the album, as well as a 2-LP/45 RPM, and I’ll bet they’re the best of them all. $40 and $60, respectively.

The AP UHQR version of Kind Of Blue certainly improves on the MoFi version. The AP LP was made from the metal works Bernie Grundman made for Classic Records back in '97. He took possession of the 1/2" 3-track analog master tape from Sony (Sony was doing that at the time, at least for Grundman, whose facility, like the Sony offices, was located in NYC), mixing the 3 tracks to 2 live as he fed the output of his 3-track playback machine directly into his lacquer cutter! No tape copying done, either analog or digital!! 

Dear @daveyf  and friends : Folk Singer is just another very good recording and always will be " Folk Singer " and your experience obviously is system dependet.

I posted before " since when MoFi was doing digital " and well since 2011 and way before that some of us posted here that many non-MoFi LPs were digital recorded and not only almost all of you just did not care about but even blamed to the one that posted on.

Today that all know for sure about the LP digital recording every one blame MoFi when in the past almost no one of you took in count that several MoFi were digital as I posted many years ago and several times and not only with MoFi.

The analog recording industry ( AP, Music Direct, Elusive, Classic records, and many more ) in reality grow-up mainly with LP re-issues and with nothing really new recordings but re-issues: 3, 4 or even 7/8 different kind of same title re-issues and almost all of us were buying as crazy horses. Every new reissue ( no matter what. ) we buy it. Why, who cares ! ! 

The LP stampede started around 20 years ago and it follows today and this thread confirm that stampede.

3/4 years ago I left it. I made a stop in the road and asked my self: why in hell am I running in this long no sense LP stampede when there is nothing new ? and since then I stop to buy re-issues no matters what.

The best QS LP  happened way before the " stampede " with some of the D2D by Sheffield, M&K, Cristal Clear and the like that even today can´t be ouperformed and the AP efforst with its D2D recordings was not not only near those references but really bad D2D recordings.

For years I posted that digital medium is the superior alternative and no one today can't stop digital that always will be better. The One Step re-issues confirm that.

R.

Anyway, the world is in continuous movement and a lot of people have no other best way of life that spend any kind of money for truly little rewards but such is life.

@rauliruegas: Yes, direct-to-disc LP's (for you youngins, no tape recorder of any kind is employed, analogue or digital. The output of the microphone mixing console goes straight to the lathe cutting the lacquer) remain the by-a-wide-margin most-alive sounding musical format I've heard. But very few musicians and singers are capable of making records that way.

I suspected all along that MOFI were using a Digital step in the process simply because they WEREN'T plastering AAA stickers all over the outside of their product the way some other's were doing...Analogue Productions for one.