No idea what album that is but it looks fantastic.

Any current VMP members here? I really want the Blossom Dearie repress but don’t want to sign up. Would gladly pay you + S&H if you could hook me up.

MoFi busted for using a digital step for years and deceiving customers.

Or alt title: audiophiles full of shit, never could hear the difference between analog and digital.

WaPo: How a Phoenix record store owner set the audiophile world on fire
MoFi Records claimed its expensive reissues were purely analog reproductions. It had been deceiving its customer base for years.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/music/20 ... l-scandal/

You're about half right. "Audiophiles" *used* to be able to tell the difference, but things changed quite a while ago and now they're compacent shitheads.

Just go to the Steve Hoffman Forums and read any thread. Everything is great, everything is amazing. No matter how poor it sounds, no matter how sketchy the source material, no matter how bereft the bonus material, no matter how bad the remix, and no matter how expensive it is. Say something negative about any release and they cry like little bitches.

There are specialty record labels who have been decieving customers for years. One good example is Sundazed, who use vinyl as their source material and claim it is "analog masters" and fold down stereo mixes and call them "original mono mixes", but if you say something negative about them you will be roasted by "audiophiles" who don't even think it's important! Why? Because they used to be a decent label and the owner is looked upon as some kind of hero/god.

And Steve Hoffman himself is notorious for using copy tapes and old CD's as source material for his own expensive audiophile releases and smugly covering it up. So the irony runs full circle.

So if anything, this MOFI saga makes me laugh out loud. Unfortunately, they will become the poster children for this type of deception and not the many many labels before them.

I post over on Hoffman on occasion, lurk very regularly. I’ve known the difference between A/D has been hard to discern for a while now; whenever the Slate and UA tape emulations dropped — 2011ish? — I was finding myself in sessions where the digital tape emulation was freakishly deceptive.

For me, the vinyl format is about care and intention, first and foremost: even a decent pressing will have broader dynamic range and LF/HF roll off, all of which are more pleasing to my ears. AAA is preferable, and I’m not as up to speed on the individual pressing plant chicanery as you seem to be. But my MoFi Dire Straits record sounds fantastic, digital step or not.

The biggest issue at hand I think is that MoFi deliberately held back information from their customers. Of all the big audiophile labels out there, they have by far been the vaguest in their marketing.