Mobile Fidelity Settlement Update

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. 

Misrepresentation in inducing a purchase is actionable. I would not have purchased any of my MoFi Step 1 albums--for which I paid a premium-- had I known there was a digital step. It matters not that some of them sound very good. It's a matter of  misrepresentation of provenance.

Now let's say you buy your wife a $100 replica of a $2,500 Louis Vuitton bag for Christmas and tell her it's real. She and her friends think it's real. Then one day she walks into a Louis Vuitton store and finds out that the only way the experts can tell the difference between the real and this particular fake is that there are 8 stitches inside of an interior pocket of the fake and 10 in the real version. She empties the bag and counts 8 stitches in hers.  Your defense--wifey couldn't tell the difference and none of wifey's friends will ever be able to tell the difference.

What are the odds that wifey says--"I'm good with that --I forgive you."