Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab .... Problems

I have quite a few mofi releases which really do vary in quality from the excellent to the ordinary and this One Step - What's Going On falls somewhere in the middle.
The packaging (though one inner sleeve was damaged) is beautiful and worthy of the price
but the records themselves though pressed perfectly flat, almost silent and again damaged
do not sound nearly as good as the four Miles Davis releases I own which cost a third or less.

How a company whose only reason for being is releasing quality remasters listened to this remaster and thought it worth $125 plus shipping
is strange and then to let damaged items past quality control to be sent out to customers is really dissapointing
but their reaction to my as a customer is even more dissapointing.

It's something that simply wouldn't happen in other retail companies especially where goods are damaged it's almost always a no quibble cash refund
not a partial replacement, it's like buying a damaged pair of shoes and bieng offerd a replacement for just the damaged one.
Then to be expected to pay for the returned items to be posted really is taking the piss.

Firstly I'm not a part of any vinyl revival or being conned I've owned a record player constantly since I was about 10 years old.
Secondly a remaster from what was originally a bad recording will always be just that
but as was the case of of the recent One Step Mofi What's Going On that doesn't mean that it was not taken from the original masters
it was,  it just means that those original masters where not great in the first place or that they've messed up the remaster
for them to claim to have copied from the master but really have copied from a CD would be fraud.
Mofi do make remasters from other secondary sources these are from their Silver Series and they are quite open about that. 

Mofi, Analogue Productions, Classic Records, Music Matters and the recent Tone Poet have all had access to the original masters unless stated otherwise
and these can range from ordinary to excellent and in my experience are never better than the originals unless they are remasters of more modern releases
these can and often are an improvement over the original.

What you are describing as a bloody con is somethimg entirely different modern reissues that are outside of copyright laws
and are taken from secondary sources like CD or old vinyl and pressed onto cheap heavyweight vinyl
by companies like DOL, DOXY, Waxtime etc these will usually be very cheap and carry a 180 gram vinyl sticker
but will never claim because it would be fraudulent to be from the original masters.
Why you would buy these if you already own an original 1st press I have no idea.

Personally I would always buy an original record unless these are just wildly expensive
it is only then and if I really wanted a vinyl copy that I'd buy a remaster and some of these are excellent.
I've also bought vinyl taken from digital remasters that are also excellent.

Reading MOFI's T&C they state that they do not offer refunds at all and returns are at the buyers expense so any members thinking of spending large amounts on their products should take that into account.

I have an original 1st press, the Abbey Rd Half Speed and a couple of CD's and though the Mofi One Step is probably the best it's not by a lot and I agree macca the original Motown masters are probably a long way off the quality of the Miles Columbia ones but that does beg the question why use them to produce a remaster to release as your most expensive premium product.

As you say it doesn't affect the sound and I'll have live with it.

Sorry but I have to say your post makes absolutely no sense to me,  basically what your saying is stop moaning it's only a mark doesn't affect playback and as for the inner sleeve lots of people have had damaged ones and I'm lucky to even have got a response from MFSL, should be grateful and should pay the return shipping without complaint because it isn't excessive.
And what in God's name does it matter that the title is still available 'as sales may have been below expectations'?
The point in trying to get an early serial number direct from the company is that less copies would have been pressed from the stamper and so in theory should be better quality and so a relacement of just one copy will not only mean that my set doesn't match numerically (I'll have one record numbered 87 and a replacement numbered somewhere near 2,000) but also quite possibly won't match sonically.

Just because you feel lucky to have just the 'odd pop' and are prepared to accept visually impaired products and as you say 'I only concern myself with audible faults or bad warpage' doesn't mean the rest of us should these are not £9.99 DOL pressings they are supposed to be premium products that cost $125 plus shipping.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         

I simply cannot imagine why you would still buy vinyl if your expectations are so low. Personally in 35 years of continually buying records  this experience with MFSL ranks  amongst  the worst.

I'm not an Audiophile I'm a music lover and anyone who describes themselves as a 'genuine Audiophile' sounds like a genuine nob head to me.
                                                                                                                                                                                  

Who said you where less worthy than a music lover westie. Perhaps I could have made my answer less of a generalisation but I was responding to a particular post from a person who had insinuated in general terms with the statement

" A lot of people bought one step titles to flip later when the price goes up so if they sell a faulty product on and have to refund they don't get any sympathy from genuine audiophiles."

that I had bought a record to sell on later for profit so I responded also in general terms.

"I'm not an Audiophile I'm a music lover and anyone who describes themselves as a 'genuine audiophile' sounds like a genuine nob head to me.

It's very easy to insinuate in general terms so that you can deny things later but to me the inference was that I had done something that made me less worthy less 'genuine'.

Here's a photo of me opening up the One Step on my birthday because it so expensive for me to buy that I had saved it for a special occasion not to wait until prices had gone up.

I had ordered two copies one for someone else who then let me down so I sold it for a £125 I think a week after recieving it when it was still available so hardly profiteering and anyawy what if I was

some of us have to buy and sell stuff to be able to afford expensive equipment I did so with most of my Naim gear to be able to afford it does that make me any less genuine.

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Are you a snooker referee?

Ha ha! Funnily enough your not the first person to have made that mistake.
I’ll save those involved the embarrassment but I’ve had my share of propositions on these forums. My and my Mrs have had a few laughs about it.

Nob head.

Natara made me say it.

Aw bless, Methink it is Poor little dvh that appears to be the one somewhat obsessed with yet another reference out of context.

From what I have read and seen on Snake Oil She  'iS' indeed a forty something ex military Officer, not a squaddie! 
perhaps you are just about smart enough to work out the rank insignia on the image she postedof her  on SO taken whilst she was serving in Afghanistan, where are your images ? what were you doing for your country back then other than being a Snidey little man?




ADMIN:

Playing the man.........That's a week out for you.

Lets get back to discussing the horror of Natara's hideous scratch on his Vinyl.

ITS AN OUTRAGE I TELL YA!!!

Thanks.

For all of you who actually want to know 'What's Going On' with the scratch ( and the damaged inner sleeve) I've decided to keep the said items and live with the fact I just spent £125 on a damaged record which apparently is just plain uncool to discuss because it's all just part of being a 'genuine' audiophile.

Now can we all please get back to discussing cables please!