DSD - Vinyl never sounded better
I have a fair few mofi releases, digital and analogue and there's no doubt many sound great, however I can see this being an issue industry wide and not just for mofi.
When CD arrived I was still an advocate for cassette, when DVD arrived I still liked VHS and the same is true for digital photography, preferring 35mm.
Now we have HD TV, you would now have to be crazy to think analogue TV is better, digital photography is now streets ahead and now we have this bombshell.
I never thought I'd not own a cd player, I know own a Melco but still buy cd's to rip and buy hires downloads as I outright refuse to stream.
I have many new lp's that I know are all digital and many times it's harder to decide if the HD download or vinyl is better. I know if I start playing vinyl it's hard to stop, especially with non digital vinyl but now I'm left looking at my tt and record collection and wondering should I get rid of all Analogue and put the money into the best digital front end I can afford?
I can certainly see mofi, if not the whole analogue market imploding after this.
It seems as if even though digital has got off to a slow start it's managed to win the race at the last moment with many formats and it now has vinyl well and truly in its sights.
I could play my original 1960's pressings buy wait, they were 'limited' to be able to be played on the systems of the day'.
The hifi business had been fooling us for years and we in the most part fall for it.
When I worked for Sevenoaks I was buying stuff at 45% to 70% off retail with the lower figure being typical trade prices. I was buying Audiolab and later TagMclarem at 70% off I'm some cases for staff discount with interconnects having the biggest markup. It's about what they can get away with unfortunately.
We even had a 'duck 'n' dive' trade list (still have an 'XLS' copy) which listed all the percentages off profit should a customer ask for discount so we knew exactly what we were making. This why the franchisees were driving around in porches and TVR's with holiday homes in Spain etc......
The most difficult part is possibly having to admit my wife was right all those years about it being one all big con?
Micheal 45 said it best '"every album release ever is technically a Master recording from the original tape".