Mobile Fidelity Settlement Update

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.

New expensive Digital remastered re-release records nowadays do not sound as good as the original all analogue pressings.   

I stopped by newly pressed vinyl back 2015 after buying several duds when compared to the original all analogue pressing. the cutting lathes for vinyl are now digitally driven.

new digitized record are in your face equalized and loud for sure. 

but are also grainy in sound and lack air, depth, and the musicality of the original pressings. 

The era of all analogue vinyl is pretty much over  

In todays world what is the most a grievous crime your can inflict on an individual? You can’t hurt their feelings. These people are self proclaimed music experts that were exposed to be novice listeners. When they were exposed to their friends that they could not tell the difference in the recording it hurt their feelings and now a full refund is not just compensation. They need to be made whole for their feelings, and lawyers have more billable hours telling them they had their feelings hurt.

The whole point was charging people high prices for something they were misled into thinking they were getting, but actually were not. Not about sound quality, it's about getting what you are paying premium prices for.