Mo-Fi Sounds Great On Your Hi-Fi

Anniversaries are an important thing. Ask the person who forgot their own wedding anniversary. Chances are that they didn’t forget it again the following year. Congratulations to EnjoyTheMusic.com for 25 years of audio enthusiasm! My anniversary at Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab will be this August. I started 35 years ago.

“You want to work for a record company?” These two scruffy-looking cats eyed me earnestly. “We need some production guys to make cassettes for us”.

I played it cool. “Depends on the pay, I guess”. “I mean, I have a day gig at the moment”. I was a total record nerd, always cleaning my new LP’s and playing them once through to reduce pops and ticks, then transferring them to cassette tape, never to be handled again. I slavishly emulated the logos of my favorite bands and record labels for the J-card insert of the tape box. I made mixtapes for friends that were circulated around our little county. I always got a secret thrill out of hearing one of my tapes played at somebody else’s party….