MoFi controversy

@mahler123 - please don't lump me in with the religious vinyl fanatics out there. If there is anyone who thinks it is impossible for some form of digital audio to sound better on some albums (or at least as good as vinyl), they are nuts. Especially since many were recorded digitally. I never had a reel to reel player, but it seems the religious vinyl nuts should try that - supposedly there is universal agreement that it is better than vinyl.

In general, I avoid fanatics about anything. Fans are OK - fanatics/extremists, not so much.

I had a CD player because I couldn't get new vinyl in the 90's. Unplugged it when vinyl became available again about 10 years later. Bought the ones I liked the most on vinyl and kept the CDs for the car and garage. To me vinyl sounded much better, except with the rare noisy record. 

Since then, CD players have improved, streaming came along, Hi res DLs became available, etc. I had/have a very nice collection of vinyl (some audiophile pressings are excellent - some aren't) and wasn't going to move to digital. However, if I were starting out today, I would go digital of some sort. Probably streaming....

@mahler123, You misunderstood my post. johnss made a post about MoFi converting its DSD files to PCM for mastering, adding more conversions to their mastering process. I just stated that at this point MoFi says they do not convert their DSD files to PCM for mastering, they convert the DSD files back to analog for mastering. I can’t vouch for MoFi, we’ll just have to wait and see how this all plays out.

I don't have any problem with DSD, PCM or analog.  They all can sound great.

they could convert back to analogue to edit and eq the file, then when done convert back to DSD. A lot of steps of A to D, D to A to edit then back to A to D. Then D to A again when you cut the lacquer. Each step misses a little bit of info each time. 

My understanding of the process, but who really knows...  

Start with Master tape, record with DSD while adjusting for tape head azimuth, splice together in digital domain, ?convert to analog?, ?master in analog domain?, cut lacquer.

I don't care one way or the other, but I thought the main point of this MoFi controversy wasn't so much the sound - a lot of these vinyl guys are saying the sound is excellent on a lot of these - but that they are paying large amounts of money for something that is different from what they thought they were paying for.