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Mofi Controversy

I agree that Mobile Fidelity should have been more upfront about their recording process. I have heard that there may be some class action lawsuits in the works. I have to ask what this will accomplish besides putting money in lawyers pockets and potentially driving Mobile Fidelity out of business? I have enjoyed many of their records and I  hope to do so in the future. 
Some of you probably feel that they should be punished for what they did and if you feel that way simply stop buying their records. A drop in sales would be a very strong message for any business.

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bdp24
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Today's TAS newsletter includes a good interview of Music Direct/MoFi owner Jim Davis by Robert Harley. Just about every issue is brought up and answered, save one: Why did he keep the DSD step secret for 15 years, lying the whole time that MoFi LP's were made in a purely-analogue manner? If MoFi's dirty little secret hadn't been revealed by someone else, he would still be lying about it.

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Do the recordings sound any different to you now that you know a digital step may have been added ? I will take the one step Abraxis over any other recording of that album I have heard. I am really looking forward to the one step Michael Jackson. He was very fussy about his recordings so this will be an interesting one.

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In the TAS interview with Robert Harley, Jim Davis states than the MoFi engineers found that a lacquer cut from a DSD copy of the analogue master tape sounded better than a lacquer cut from the analogue master tape. Do you believe them?

Here’s a simple (though not inexpensive ;-) way to test their assertion: Compare the MoFi Kind Of Blue (cut from a DSD 64 file)---two 45 RPM discs priced at $69.99, to the Analogue Productions Kind Of Blue (cut from the 3-track analogue master tape)---one 33-1/3 RPM UHQR disc priced at $100 (though now out of print), or the AP two 45 RPM UHQR disc version priced at $150. Let us know what you hear.

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