A scandal has cropped up in the tiny world of high-end audio — and it’s cropped up in a place you’d never expect. Turns out that Mobile Fidelity, the world-famous company that has long claimed to source its celebrated LP reissues from verified “original masters,” has actually been using digital rather than analog copies of those original mastertapes, recorded at DSD4x (11.28MHz), to master its One-Step LPs. Where record lovers thought they were buying all-analog vinyl (“AAA,” to use the old SPARS code), they were actually being sold digitally duplicated and mastered recordings (“ADA”) — and at premium prices. To make matters worse, it appears that the digital wool wasn’t just pulled over the eyes of One-Step buyers; MoFi apparently has been doing this very same thing (or something like it) on many of its other “original master” releases since at least 2008!