Mofi Controversy

So you would be OK if a gas station told you it was high octane gas, charged you the high octane price and it was really low octane? I’d bet you’d be really angry.
It’s fraud. It doesn’t matter that you could not tell the difference, it’s fraud. It’s a crime. 
 

Today's TAS newsletter includes a good interview of Music Direct/MoFi owner Jim Davis by Robert Harley. Just about every issue is brought up and answered, save one: Why did he keep the DSD step secret for 15 years, lying the whole time that MoFi LP's were made in a purely-analogue manner? If MoFi's dirty little secret hadn't been revealed by someone else, he would still be lying about it.

Do the recordings sound any different to you now that you know a digital step may have been added ? I will take the one step Abraxis over any other recording of that album I have heard. I am really looking forward to the one step Michael Jackson. He was very fussy about his recordings so this will be an interesting one.

In the TAS interview with Robert Harley, Jim Davis states than the MoFi engineers found that a lacquer cut from a DSD copy of the analogue master tape sounded better than a lacquer cut from the analogue master tape. Do you believe them?

Here’s a simple (though not inexpensive ;-) way to test their assertion: Compare the MoFi Kind Of Blue (cut from a DSD 64 file)---two 45 RPM discs priced at $69.99, to the Analogue Productions Kind Of Blue (cut from the 3-track analogue master tape)---one 33-1/3 RPM UHQR disc priced at $100 (though now out of print), or the AP two 45 RPM UHQR disc version priced at $150. Let us know what you hear.