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You are painting a strange false dichotomy here

"MFSL has wanted us to believe it was Gain 2, One-Step, Supervinyl and 45 RPM that was leading to the quality of their products."

Yes!!! All of which they use and all of which has a real sonic impact on their records.

"And here you are and the MFSL engineers too suddenly arguing that it's the DSD mastering that's been responsible for the great sound."

2.points.1. It ain't sudden for me. I've been preaching the value of the Plangent system for some time now and have been a strong advocate for that replacing any kind of direct cutting from the analog tape. 2.It's not an either/or. there is no switch in play here. The Mofi engineers believe the advantage of a digital step is 1. transparency so nothing is lost 2. utter freedom to ste their mastering moves and do direct comparisons between those mastering moves and the unaltered original digital copy. Should be pretty obvious how that is a big advantage over cutting straight from the analog tape. Although I think I have heard that a lot of mastering engineers do this anyway even if they go back to the tape to do the final cut. The advantages of using a digital step are real and are seperate to the advantages of one step plating, 45 rpm and their proprietary cutting system. It'snot an either/or proposition.


"Why bother telling us the truth while they've promoted one trademark or another as the reason for the great sound."

Do you care about ad copy or real world mastering techniques that make a difference?

"I'm very much at a loss for your (and others) attacks on the all analog mindset as a defense of what has happened here."


It is not a defense for what happened. But it is an attack on an audio mythology that is IMO holding back progress and pressuring the reissue labels to make inferior choices.





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