MoFi controversy

R.

Dear friends: I think that some or many of us knew what @moonwatcher  postedddd b@theaudioamp  posted too: when one supports digital in the analog forum is threated as a " pariah ".

 

I never cared about and for to many years I " preached "  that digital is a superior SQ alternative no matters what and people like  @atmasphere  in one thread posted that if I was a digital  man why I " live " in the analog forum. Other gentlemans as m.lavigne disagree with me telling that still " today " analog normally is superior alternative but at the same time he accepted that DSD 2/4X could be excellent.

 

@alexberger  people like me that know for sure and for many years the SQ superiority of digital alternative stay in analogue because in my case I own 7K+ LPs but many of you are over 10K and this is the main reason, at least for me.

Alex you posted:

 

"" most of the new reissues, including the most famous audiophile brands, sound like digital. ""

sorry but that's no posible. The best SQ LP sounds as the best SQ LP  not digital.

My LP experiences told me that when recording manufacturers started to use digital medium the LP experience improved, especially in the bass frequency range.

I own a lot of PCM recorded LPs coming from Telarc, Chandos, Denon, Chalfont, etc, etc. The best Denon Lps or Telarcs as the 1812 have and excellent SQ even today and even are best that its reissues as the FIM 1812 resissiue that¿'s very good but the original is better.

 

I left to buy LPs for the last 2 years, today I do it but in very special ocasions. The LP industry has nothing new to shows up. First step or one side recordings and the like are not something new and unfortunatelly there are almost none new really new LP recordings but mainly reissues so why pay so many money for more of the same? and many of you already posted the answer: "  because I want the best SQ " . and my question here is " best quality sound " against what? which my reference ? and things are that almost all of us our reference is what we like it instead the live MUSIC or at least what's neaer to the recording.

 

We are accustom to the full/whole LP distortions generated/developed through the home system playback analog rig and phono stage. Things are that those " thousands " of bad any kind of distorions that degrades in heavy way what's in the recording are NICE to our ears, it's what we are accustom to and what we like no matter what.

 

I accepted the superiority of digital alternative many years ago because I'm not an analog lover but a MUSIC lover that's way different, so I want to listen the best SQ and today the only alternative that meet that target is digital.

 

The digital/analog issue is only common sense. Any one of you please analise each single step of all " manipulation " that suffers the LP recorded signal starting at the first moment that that archaic cartridge playback proccess starts till we reveive the sound through the speakers. That tortuose path is not high SQ but high degraded sound that's different.

 

Of course it's only an opinion.

 

Regards and enjoy the MUSIC NOT DISTORTIONS,

R.

@rauliruegas I think the main gist of the "issue" is that many audiophiles were misled (or thought they were misled) by MoFi's "lie of omission".  MoFi never came out and said they were AAA all the way, but many believed that because MoFi never said (until now) otherwise.  I hope this teaches companies to be more forthcoming and honest with consumers.  If they had said in 2015 we are going to start using DSD to record analog masters because we think it is the better way to go, then some would have agreed and a few others might not. But it would have been out there for all to know and make their purchasing decisions. 

I really don't have a dog in this hunt. Like you I just love music whether vinyl, CD, FLAC, or DSD. Good gear is what delivers that and I'm a techie geek engineer so I love that gear too. And the fact that most recordings made from now on (indeed in the last 10 years or so) are going to be digital anyway.  What studio records to analog these days? 

Like Cookie at Blue Coast I simply take a pragmatic view of all this. However, for those who feel "wronged" I can understand their angst. It's like finding out your girlfriend fakes most of her orgasms - but she is really, really good at it. 

When I have chance, I will stop by Music Direct talk to one of their guy to see what they think on this issue? 

Music Direct owns Mobile Fidelity.