Bogus Ratings for MOFI SACD's

I don't care what album it is.  If it was originally recorded in analog, the digital reproduction sounds flat to me.  I'd much rather toss on a 50 year old scratchy LP. 

I had a honest review, not published on Acoustic Sounds site years ago and never tried again.

The SQ of their recent vinyl (past 3 years) pressings has been disappointing to me, so much so that I no longer seek them out 

I left a review of a MOFI OneStep with a 2star rating, they published it and I got a call directly from Music Direct offering to send me a new pressing, and told me to just keep the first one. My complaint was that the MOFI quality control was crap, as I had a few of the OneSteps the came with smudges, bad surface noise, etc. So I didn't just bust them on the one title but the whole company! They posted it, and it's still on their website.

I had the same thing happen to me, but with a purchase from Acoustic Sounds. I had no idea that, that is how they operate, It sucks cause I made a purchase based on reviews.

For example, I read all these wonderful reviews about an reissue of Tres Hombres. Even though my 1973 original was still in excellent condition, due to the reviews I got sucked into purchasing the reissue. I wondered what this reissue would sound like without 50 tears of needle wear.

First time I played the reissue, it sounded like I had a ball of crud was built up on my needle. I did a side by side, and the reissue lacked the micro details of the original on the guitars , and the edginess of my original. With the original, on Jesus Just Left Chicago, the simple two chord strumming rings beautifully, the vocals were edgier, and the drums snapped, where as the reissue was just lacking all around. I gave the new copy to an local used record shop.

I left an review stating that you’re much better off finding an excellent used copy than buying this new one.

My opinion was never published. From that purchase forward, I try to gleam reviews from Google.

@Mahler123:  that really shows how those things are so bogus as @walt8489 stated above.   At least on Amazon as far as i can tell,  they let all reviews come through  good or bad.

This happens with everything.  We had some issues with a place that we stayed at via Bookings.com, and my wife (a very temperate individual) wrote a review that mentioned 5 good things and the one negative issue.  They published the review and deleted the one one negative sentence 

I always take reviews on company websites with a large grain of salt.  Similarly, I don't put much stock in reviews on retail store websites that are selling the product under review.  Better to look elsewhere.

Have you heard the Bernie Grundman mastered cd that is part of her recent box sets?

It’s hard for me to imagine it sounding much better.

That's very disappointing.

@ronkent , you could do a review of the Mofi SACD Blue right here on this forum.  

I do need to be clear about something.   MD was very gracious about allowing me to  exchange the disc for something else.   My gripe is that they are not letting negative music reviews on their site.   Now i have to wonder about all those four and five star ratings

Ronkent , when you call ask for Jim Davis he will take care of you.

Jayctoy:  i think they are a great company,  but their response to myself and my friend is very sad.  I think our copies may be flawed but they do not seem interested in looking into that.  What bothers me is the censoring of reviews that do not give four or five stars.

I still trust Mofi and Music direct.I’ve known many workers there. Jim Davis the owner is very humble.

It's the digital step.

You can post your review at HRaudio.net. it's a decent repository for high-res audio reviews.

I once wrote a very polite but negative review of a remastered Chicago Transit Authority LP. They never published it. Oddly, it even mentioned that a previous Mo-Fi release of CTA was among my favorite LPs. I never submitted another review to Music Direct after that.