The MoFi Mess and TAS rolling over for them


Totally disgusted with TAS opinions on the mofi mess. They're basically saying it was okay to dupe us.  Jonathan Valin actually says as long as it sounds good...

What a sell out to the audiophile community.  TAS is nothing but a glorified product catalogue for their advertisers.  

 

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I recently received a marketing email from Music Direct promoting Fleetwood Mac - Fleetwood Mac: 2017 Remaster(Vinyl LP).

I wrote them asking for the source of this pressing.

This is the response from their "no reply" email:

A:

As of this reply, the record label has not disclosed the provenance of this title; should we get any additional information, it will be reflected on the product page where possible. - Bes Nievera/Music Direct Brand Ambassador

 

Released in 2017 and no relevant information. Not a confidence builder.

 

ericsch: I believe Bernie Grundman mastered the 2017 version. Fremer might know the answer to your question.

@bdp24 You ever give any of those mid-‘70s re-issues of Tapestry a go?

IIRC, mine is the ‘75 US with the grey-on-white labels, not the ‘77 beige labels.

Sounds better than the OG pressings I’d gone through multiple times.

@tylermunns: No, no mid-70's pressings. I wore out my original; In 1971 I was backing a chick singer who did a coupla songs from the album, and played the album a LOT. "Smackwater Jack" was a lot of fun to play. Drummer Russ Kunkel and bassist Leland Sklar were real good at creating a killer groove and feel. That's why they got as much studio work as they did.