I’m not particularly lucky, but then I stumble across this at a local second hand store, sealed, for £14.99.

& so I’m #NowSpinning #BringingItAllBackHome by #BobDylan courtesy of #MobileFidelity.

This is just one of two missing entries in my #MoFi Dylan collection, & so I’m really happy to have this.

But how does it sound? Compared with a 1st UK stereo, it’s an improvement. Against an early UK mono, it’s less definitive. But what an album.

#NowListening #NowPlaying #Vinyl #VinylRecords

Not surprising but still wild that a class action lawsuit has been filed over #MoFi’s questionable use of the term “all analog”! According to the settlement notice I received, I have the option of returning my records for a full refund (ha!), a 5% refund on the purchase price, or a 10% off coupon.

Another late birthday gift & I’m #NowSpinning the #MobileFidelity reissue of #ThisYearsModel by #ElvisCostello & the Attractions.

This is probably my 2nd favourite of the Costello albums, but contains my favourite song, ‘This Year’s Girl’, which is just glorious.

I’ve compared the #MoFi & it is easily bettered by the 1st UK Porky Prime cut. The MoFi’s too refined, lacks bite & is less cohesive, whereas the 1st UK kicks ass: as it should.

#NowListening #NowPlaying #Vinyl #VinylRecords #Music

Late birthday gift arrived today & so I’m #NowSpinning #ArmedForces by #ElvisCostello & the Attractions.

This is the repressing by #MobileFidelity & I’m just done comparing it with a UK OG. There are audible differences between the two - the UK is punkier with more punch, but the #MoFi has better definition with hidden detail rising to the surface: the backing vocals & piano coming to the fore. But I’m not sure I prefer one over the other.

#NowPlaying #NowListening #Vinyl #VinylRecords #Music

@HangFireBooks But yeah it needs more nuance:

- Does the surface of the original have visible or audible damage that isn't just cleanable dirt?

- What's the source of the so-called #audiophile pressing - the poor digital remaster that brought the original to CD? The original #analog tape? The liars at #MoFi whose #DSD remasters still sound good and omg everything I believe in is a lie?

ALL things being equal, I'll take clean new #180g #vinyl over the original. If it's a remaster by a trustworthy source like, say, Analogue Productions, even more so - but I'll swap it into the original's jacket if I have it if the idiots who made the new one defiled the jacket with the UPC rather than putting it on its shrink/outer bag. Woe to my heirs who'll need to sort this mess out.

Having taken a long break from his #music (for obvious reasons), I was intrigued & then disappointed by #RyanAdam’s recent output. This then sent me into his back catalogue: a reminder of that incredible run of albums from #Heartbreaker through to #EasyTiger.

I’m #NowPlaying #LoveIsHell, a reissue by #MobileFidelity, the best sounding of his albums on #vinyl & the songwriting is, in places, exceptional, #Halloween, an outtake, being my favourite.

#NowListening #NowSpinning #VinylRecords #MoFi

ICYMI: Unboxing: How does @mofisoundlab's latest release, Paul Simon's There Goes Rhymin' Simon, hold up next to the previous Record Store Day and DCC releases?
https://thatshelf.com/unboxing-paul-simon-there-goes-rhymin-simon-mofi-one-step-vinyl-box-set
#MoFi #PaulSimon

Unboxing: How does @mofisoundlab's latest release, Paul Simon's There Goes Rhymin' Simon, hold up next to the previous Record Store Day and DCC releases?
https://thatshelf.com/unboxing-paul-simon-there-goes-rhymin-simon-mofi-one-step-vinyl-box-set
#MoFi #PaulSimon

#NowListening to #BlondeOnBlonde by #BobDylan, cut in mono by #RyanKSmith from today’s #VinylMePlease haul.

This is my 2nd listen & my only mono. The #VMP stands up well to my 1st UK stereo press and proves a compelling listen, cohesion, punch, & natural bass.

The #MobileFidelity, cut at 45, has more space, more detail - but it’s a silly comparison. That #MoFi doesn’t sound like any other version I’ve heard. Plus, it’s cut in stereo, at 45, from DSD.

#NowPlaying #Vinyl #VinylRecords #Music

Sat in the spring sunshine watching snow melt & I’m #NowListening to #Nefertiti by #MilesDavis.

This, cut at 45 by #MobileFidelity, is a new addition - & still in stock. This is just a great album, incredible musicianship, melodic, & well recorded. Oh, & it features the incomparable #WayneShorter who sadly passed last week.

The #MoFi cut has whisper silent blacks, dynamics to burn, rich tonality, & all sounds very natural, very realistic.

#NowPlaying #VinylRecords #Vinyl #Jazz #Music

Returned from a few days away & am #NowListening to #Milestones by #MilesDavis.

This is the #KevinGray cut for the Columbia Legacy series (this is one of the limited numbered issues).

I find myself going back & forth between this & the #MoFi & it’s so so close. This is very natural, realistic, but *maybe* with a little less definition & space. Whereas the MoFi shimmers with hyper definition in places. For me, this just about wins out (I think)…

#VinylRecords #Vinyl #NowPlaying #Jazz #Music

Beginning of the weekend & #NowListening to #BitchesBrew by #MilesDavis.

It took me quite a while to begin to see the patterns in apparent randomness of this: but it’s grown on me & continues to fascinate.

This is the repress by #MobileFidelity at 33 1/3. I don’t yet have anything to compare this with (I’m awaiting the anniversary edition which, unlike this, is AAA). But as is generally the case with #MoFi Miles, this is dynamic, spacious, & detailed.

#NowPlaying #Vinyl #VinylRecords #Jazz

Just watched #MUFC put Leeds United in their place & I’m #NowListening to #FillesDeKilimanjaro by #MilesDavis. I’m only just beginning to get my head around his electric period - & this, along with #ASilentWay - is very much at the shallow end. Naff album title aside, I’m digging it.

This is the #MobileFidelity 45. I don’t have anything with which to compare, but I’ll go so far as to say this is dynamic, airy, with bags of detail.

#NowPlaying #Vinyl #VinylRecords #Jazz #MoFi #Music

Another weekend & I’m #NowListening to #OhMercy by #BobDylan.

Listening obsessively to #Fragments, the latest Bootleg Series entry, has led me to the best sounding version of the best sounding Dylan album: the #MobileFidelity reissue at 45. Compared with my UK 1st pressing, the #MoFi wins out: better dynamics, definition, separation, & sound stage.

And then there’s #RingThemBells & #ManInTheLongBlackCoat: wonderful & weird in equal measure.

#NowPlaying #Vinyl #VinylRecords #Music

Sunday afternoon, eschewing the mellow & instead #NowListening to #JackJohnson by #MilesDavis.

When it comes to #jazz, I’m normally a hardbop guy & this is assuredly not that. But I am a guitarist & when #JohnMcLaughlin cuts loose, it’s something else: heavy, discordant, spiky, with Miles anchoring the melody over everything.

This is the #MoFi reissue & sounds properly three dimensional, very natural, with incredible dynamics.

#NowPlaying #Vinyl #VinylRecords #Music #MobileFidelity

The Cars - Heartbeat City

My Mobile Fidelity mail call from yesterday. Time to relive some of my glory days!

#Vinyl #VinylRecords #NowSpinning #TheCars #MOFI #MFSL #MobileFidelitySoundLabs

In September of last year, audio reviewer and analog evangelist Michael Fremer reviewed Mobile Fidelity’s reissue of Truth, the 1968 debut studio album from Jeff Beck. In his review, Fremer praises the sound, saying, “Mo-Fi knocks it out of the park.” The title of this enthusiastic review? “Mobile Fidelity Tells The Truth.” But as Mr. Fremer now knows, that’s not strictly true.

https://www.audioholics.com/audio-technologies/mobile-fidelity-scandal
#Vinyl #Mofi #Analog #MobileFidelity

Saturday morning & #NowListening to a treasured #album, #BloodOnTheTracks by #BobDylan.

The #MobileFidelity #OneStep, cut at 45, shimmers & sparkles with detail & depth, without losing the sense of intimacy which makes this album so special.

When compared with an early UK, the 2007 reissue, & the #MoFi 33, the OneStep wins without reservation. Listening to #IdiotWind right now & the OneStep retains the power without the muddiness of some pressings.

#Vinyl #VinylRecords #NowPlaying #Music

Sticking with the #MilesDavis theme, I’m #NowPlaying #Milestones again for the multiple time this week.

I’m #NowListening to the #MobileFidelity pressing to confirm my recollection. It’s very close between this & the #KevinGray cut (#ColumbiaLegacy). The #MoFi sounds warmer which suits, perhaps, the surging horns of, say, Sid’s Ahead. The Legacy, however, wins out in nimbleness & pace as, for example, on Straight, No Chaser.

Both sound very, very good.

#Vinyl #VinylRecords #Jazz #Music

Morning, the rain has broken, hot coffee to hand & #NowPlaying #SketchesOfSpain for the second time in a row. I love #MilesDavis with #GilEvans. Between this and #PorgyandBess, this wins out. #Saeta is quite unlike anything else I can bring to mind - that soulful horn, with the weird drone deep in the background then breaking into a march… Evocative stuff.

This is the #MobileFidelity 33, the best version I’ve heard by a country mile.

#Jazz #NowListening #vinyl #VinylRecords #Music #MoFi