Mobile Fidelity Settlement Update

You don’t have to have intelligence to be an audiophile and this case proves it. So many so called audiophiles/reviewers/analog purists thought the albums they bought sounded excellent until they found out that some of the albums were cut with DSD. Then these so called experts/purists/audiophools who bought these great sounding albums all of a sudden thought they sounded like sh$t. 
 

When does it matter what process is used to cut an album/cd? Don’t you let your ears do the listening, not somebody else’s propaganda? 
I got rid of all of my analog products and albums when dsd/hires digital was perfected because I heard better sq thru these formats than analog. The experts/analog audiophools did too until somebody told them dsd was involved. Glad I’m not part of that audiophool group (analog).

There were a fair number of negative reviews of MoFi Lp’s before the digital step was revealed. Michael Fremer was removed from MoFi’s promo list because of his panning of certain MoFi titles.

Analogue Productions, Speakers Corner, Intervention Records, and a couple dozen more companies continue to make outstanding LP reissues (mostly pure analogue, if you care about that), and some contemporary artists make a point of recording and pressing LP’s to the highest audiophile standards: Gillian Welch, for one. She owns her own LP lacquer-cutting lathe (a VMS 80 with Ortofon amplifiers)---the first step in LP production, and her Acony Records LP’s sound stunning.

@p05129 +1 I just couldn't stand the snap, crackle and pop and switched to SACD and DVD-A a longtime ago.

Hard to find original analogue tapes in decent condition now. Most were transferred to DSD forty - odd years ago.

Anyway you can get a full refund, move up to 128, 264, 512 DSD.

We don't want a world in which commercial companies are deliberately dishonest.

Ergo if any is deliberately dishonest then there must be punishment in order to deter.

So, it MoFi were deliberately dishonest, exemplary damages are appropriate

Simple, really.

For those who were duped, the issue isn’t the money. It was a violation of their religious beliefs. While organized religion has become weaker, there are many secular variants that allow people to substitute fanaticism for secular causes. Politics is the most obvious. Many of the issues with the Pandemic were another. And in the world of audio, we have the vinyl vs digital fundamentalists. With Many of the Analog or Die Crowd it is a Gospel that once the analog wave form has been digitized it is forever unclean, unholy. No number of refunds can remove the stain of the violation