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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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. 

I used to read TAS back in the 70s when it was literally a pamphlet format with zero ads. It seemed credible to me at the time. Today? Not so much.