The MoFi Mess and TAS rolling over for them


Totally disgusted with TAS opinions on the mofi mess. They're basically saying it was okay to dupe us.  Jonathan Valin actually says as long as it sounds good...

What a sell out to the audiophile community.  TAS is nothing but a glorified product catalogue for their advertisers.  

 

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I think the MOFI issue has been beaten into the ground and its time to move on. Not a vinyl guy myself, but I do have a large collection of their CD's that I have been collecting from the late 80's to the present. In most cases, I prefer the MOFI's sound to the standard CD issue but not always. I am sure their vinyls are the same: It boils down to preference. The odd thing about this is nobody could tell that they were listening to a digital file imbedded in their vinyl. They only way MOFI was  caught is the record store owner did the math and figured out that they could never release that many copies from an original tape. He could not or did not mention that he heard digital in the vinyl in his video. So my conclusion is that, despite what people think about how good their hearing is, it is very hard to discern source material when the listener has no idea what he or she is listening to. MoFi knew this and their deception has lasted about 7 years if their 2015 omission is accurate. It seems this is the trend in vinyl. I work in store that sells LP's and when I get bored, I read the covers. I noticed that I high percentage say they are OMR's remastered and transferred from digital files to vinyl. After the UMG fire, I wonder how many OMR's are real which could be another scandal in the making.