The MoFi Mess and TAS rolling over for them

Great point yoyoyaya! If these recordings become digitized anyway, why then go to the trouble to "store them" on vinyl at all? It's probably the worst medium to do so that can add nothing but distortion. I guess it's all about appearances & perception.......

TAS is the Robb Report of audio. The reviews are paid ads, nothing more.

I did not renew my TAS and Stereophile subscriptions this year. Enough said about that.

As for MOFI, there are some real good

early ones, like Supertramp crime of the century and Little Feat the live Columbus album. Luckily, with my 2K+ vinyl collection and the new world of streaming entering my life, I no longer buy any vinyl. So rest in peace MOFI, you're dead to me.

As a US distributor of high-end brands, I've personally dealt with MD, MF, JV.

I recall a wise old saying..."If you can't say something positive about someone, don't say anything".

I will say there are MANY YouTube reviewers that are quite insightful & honest and certainly worthy of consideration.

Re: dishonesty, it's both quite disappointing but also good to have truth exposed as we are seeing in so much our society. 

As soon as the analog signal is converted to digital why by it on vinyl?