Much wailing and gnashing of teeth happening right now on audio forums over the apparent revelation that Mobile Fidelity Sound Labs vinyl might actually not be quite as analog as imagined. What? You paid a shitload of money for the Santana One-Step or whatever (or you bought two copies in the hope of making a killing, er, I mean just to make sure you had a back-up) and now you find your prize product is not as ‘pure’ as you imagined? Hmm..many collectors seem to be taking to the forums to rant, to call it a ‘debacle’, to claim they were tricked into overpaying by promises of an all-analog production etc.
I understand some of this purist-disquiet. The marketing of many releases certainly suggested you were paying a premium for an all-analog release, but how often have we heard analog fans saying something like ‘I don’t know why but I just find the sound of LPs to be better’? So now it appears that some releases may sound better because of a digital step in the process. Does that make it sound less impressive? Apparently for some it does and it devalues in their minds their expensively curated collections. But what if one didn’t know? Does a record by any other name sound as sweet?
So confusing….see if this helps (clue, it won’t much but at minute 41 you get some explanation). So is it all about the quality of sound at the end of the day, not the marketing? From the sound engineering side, it makes sense to go with what works. But, were buyers deceived intentionally? You have to wonder just what the marketing folks and management were thinking here. Who in the industry knew about this and kept quiet? Welcome to 2022. Transparency is in short supply.
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