Mobile Fidelity Settlement Update

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

A while back I introduced the topic: "Nostalgia. Or Authenticity. Can we have both?"

It set a new record for the least popular post in A’Gon history. The only comment was spam generated.

At any rate, the premise was that our quest for "the real thing" and not a substitute for the "real thing" can also connect us to things we feel warm and fuzzy about. Those intellectually and emotional attached to something authentic can get quite upset about being dupped when a statement of authenticity is attached to a company’s marketing materials. The element of monetary exchange just adds to the "sting factor" for whose who didn’t get what they paid for.

Intellectually dishonest accounts are becoming part of the standard daily regimen. Calling out those who intentionally mislead should be a "no brainer" in a polite society. It looks like we got one right. 999 to go.