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[tvham]

B

I have it bookmarked on my phone, and twenty minutes ago I heard a faint explosion emanating from my jacket pocket.

better than a faint explosion from your jeans. (sorry, I'm still in vacation mode)

 

[Joe Mac]

MoFi wide. Probably most of them, there will be some analogue cuts

Yeah I think they mentioned 2 releases (Pretenders and something else, was it Let’s Get It On?) in the small bit of it I managed to get through before I gave up. Neither of them are one steps.

 

[Andy]

Questions I still have...

When did you start copying to DSD?
What are all the titles copied to DSD?
Why didn't you let people know you changed the meaning of "Original Master Recording"
Why didn't you print on the release you copied the master to DSD?
Why did you let all these reviews assume these releases were all analog?

Add to that, when did they get the 4x DSD ADC & what did they use before? They seem to be saying it's all good it's 4x DSD, I thought 4x DSD was a recent innovation.

edit - I'm probably wrong I think they are on 16x DSD now

 

[Mather]

So wait... did all my original Mofi's just shoot up in value?

-looks at Ziggy-

NO ONE TOUCH MY ZIGGY

ALSO THIS IS NOT A EUPHEMISM

 

[mdmost]

I would venture to guess that any MOFI vinyl release that has an SACD counterpart was copied from DSD. That said, Pretenders and Let's Get It On had SACD releases so who knows. It would be great for MOFI to be transparent about it.

 

[Jbraswell]

Finally ordered that $20 two eye of Sketches of Spain I was on the fence about.
These older copies will become more and more rare now.

$100 one step

 

[Joe Mac]

Add to that, when did they get the 4x DSD ADC & what did they use before? They seem to be saying it's all good it's 4x DSD, I thought 4x DSD was a recent innovation.

I think that multiple times DSD has been available for recording and as a file format for a long time. I think from a playback point of view there are not that many available commercial players that go that high and it’s not that easy to get 2x DSD files to buy as a consumer never mind 4x DSD, the vast majority are just DSD from the SACD days.

 

[Jbraswell]

Pretenders is DSD because it was "too difficult" to master from the multiple masters (each song was separated).

 

[Andy]

Finally ordered that $20 two eye of Sketches of Spain I was on the fence about.
These older copies will become more and more rare now.

$100 one step

The mono cut is AAA for about £20 and sounds great. Having said that apparently the mofi Miles all sound fantastic digital or not. I'm in for the Bitches Brew One Step.

 

[Jbraswell]

The mono cut is AAA for about £20 and sounds great. Having said that apparently the mofi Miles all sound fantastic digital or not. I'm in for the Bitches Brew One Step.

I grabbed this one VG+ so another roll of the cog dice.

Miles Davis - Sketches Of Spain

View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 1963 Vinyl release of "Sketches Of Spain" on Discogs.

www.discogs.com

 

[Mather]

B

better than a faint explosion from your jeans. (sorry, I'm still in vacation mode)

In order to atone for this egregious vacation brained fart joke, recite 28 hail Marys and go spend 2 hours in the Hoffman forum.

 

[tvham]

In order to atone for this egregious vacation brained fart joke, recite 28 hail Marys and go spend 2 hours in the Hoffman forum.

How about 56 Hail Marys and like 100 our fathers? That forum is my version of hell

 

[DeadwaxDude]

Finally ordered that $20 two eye of Sketches of Spain I was on the fence about.
These older copies will become more and more rare now.

$100 one step

If you love an album, and the original has good reviews on its sound, and it's in your budget. It's always worth grabbing!

 

[Joe Mac]

How about 56 Hail Marys and like 100 our fathers? That forum is my version of hell

Let’s round it up to one full rosary, no skimping though, I want all the decades…

 

[Mather]

How about 56 Hail Marys and like 100 our fathers? That forum is my version of hell

I'll give you the option of skipping all of it but then I'll have to declare you a witch and honestly that comes with a whole other slew of conditions... how are you with sudden intense heat?

 

[Jbraswell]

These poor Music Direct folks today.
Can't imagine what the phone is doing over there.


All Miles was digital..... that will probably be difficult for many folks

 

[LeeVing]

Questions I still have...

When did you start copying to DSD?
What are all the titles copied to DSD?
Why didn't you let people know you changed the meaning of "Original Master Recording"
Why didn't you print on the release you copied the master to DSD?
Why did you let all these reviews assume these releases were all analog?

Add to that, when did they get the 4x DSD ADC & what did they use before? They seem to be saying it's all good it's 4x DSD, I thought 4x DSD was a recent innovation.

edit - I'm probably wrong I think they are on 16x DSD now

Another thing is that this was just the 3 cutting engineers...they aren't in charge of MoFi marketing. Someone from Music Direct needs to get asked all these questions too.

These 3 guys are just doing what they can do to make a record sound the best...and I get that. I also think a lot of this may be more what corporate has done.

 

[TenderLovingKiller®]

Apologies if I missed it but does anyone have a link to the MoFi confirmation that they are using a digital sources?

 

[Jbraswell]

Apologies if I missed it but does anyone have a link to the MoFi confirmation that they are using a digital sources?

 

[Joe Mac]

Apologies if I missed it but does anyone have a link to the MoFi confirmation that they are using a digital sources?

The annoying guy from the overpriced shop who had a crisis of faith interviewed them and put the video of it up on YouTube.

They didn’t so much confirm that they were using digital sources, more that they make a very high rescdigital copy of the analogue master from which they master for vinyl.