Hot Stamper Pressings of the Music of Hall and Oates Available Now
Those of you who have had the misfortune to play the MoFi LP know that they absolutely ruined this album. They boosted the hell out of the top end, the last thing in the world this recording needed.
Actually, that’s probably not true. People who collect MoFi records apparently like the kind of phony sound found on the MoFi of this title and hundreds of others. If they didn’t, why would they keep buying them?
To the extent that a MoFi collector is not happy with the sound, my guess is he would more than likely place the blame on the recording, not the mastering.
Of course, since such a collector would never lower himself to buy a standard domestic copy of the record, he would have no way of knowing that it trounces his so-called audiophile pressing. If your stereo likes that MoFi sound in this day and age, you shouldn’t be buying records. You should be buying new equipment, which hopefully will allow you to recognize bad records when you play them.