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Sonic Grade: C-
The MoFi Standard Operating Procedure of boosting the top end does this album no favors; it’s positively ruinous in fact. How dull does a system have to be to make this record sound right? Pretty damn dull.
And the bad bass definition just adds to the phoniness.
The average domestic copy is not that great either, so let’s give the MoFi a somewhat forgiving grade of C minus.
More recently we played a copy that was too smooth. Go figure!
Head to Head It’s No Contest
Visit our Hall of Shame (300+ strong) to see what, in our opinion, are some of the worst sounding records ever made.
Note that most of the entries are audiophile remasterings of one kind or another.
The reason for this is simple: we’ve gone through the all-too-often unpleasant experience of comparing them head to head with our best Hot Stamper pressings.
When you can hear them that way, up against an exceptionally good record, their flaws become that much more obvious and, frankly, that much more intolerable.
Further Reading
- Half-Speed Mastered Disasters
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