My problem with this is the last portion. I get not wanting to buy from Mo-Fi because buyers feel aggrieved, like they were played a fool but the portion that doesnāt equate for me is the importance of the sourcing in the rationale for purchasing Mo-Fi releases. Dude essentially said until there is more info on sourcing he wonāt be spending in more dough on Mo-Fi. He pointed out earlier that a lot of the MoFiās he has likely have a digital step and they all sound really good. So strictly from a buying standpoint what more do you need to know?
I feel like shady shit like this runs rampant in the modern vinyl world, I would appreciate more transparency but at the same time knowing that something is AAA doesnāt improve my listening experience. Buying records is a crazy hobby, there are so many variables to consider when trying to purchase a record. If sound is important then AAA has always been something to look for as there was more of a likelyhood that a record would sound good if there was no digital mastering. My point is MoFi is a proven commodity at this point many of their modern releases are some of the best sounding presses available. I know itās fucked up the way they went about it but I feel like them being coy about their process allowed them to explore DSD. The AAA Audiophile folks would not have waxed poetic about Santana or Bob Dylan or many of the One-Step releases had they known there was a digital step. They can say it would not matter (and in truth it turns out it really didnāt) but every review and every comment about any of these albums would always contain a ābutā as in these records sound great āā¦but they are digitalā. Being unclear and allowing buyers to assume things about releases is gonna ultimately hurt MoFiās business but I think being upfront about their process would have hurt their business even more. For many itās impossible to be an audiophile and appreciate digitally sourced records. It just is, itās going to be interesting to see how peoples opinions change with how well they regard specific Mo-Fi releases that were once considered to be the definitive version. Youād hope that the orthodoxy around what it means to be an audiophile would become more open and welcoming to digital as a result but I think whatās more likely the opposite will happen, that any MoFi released post 2008 will now contain a scarlet āDā.
