mofi-wrong

Mobile Fidelity had a bad habit of getting the tonal balance of their remastered pressings wrong.

The group you see here have major tonality problems, with some of the wackiest EQ that MoFi ever used. Most of them are bright, some of them are dull, but they all have one thing in common: they are wrong.

These mastering errors, along with others too numerous to mention, should be obvious to any audiophile with a reasonably accurate system.

Breakfast In America – MoFi Reviewed

More of the Music of Supertramp

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!

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If That’s What It Takes – Another MoFi Disaster

More of the Music of Michael McDonald

The MoFi pressing of this album is a complete disaster — it’s even fatter, muddier and more compressed than the standard domestic copy, as improbable as that may seem.

It was mastered by Jack Hunt, a man we know to be responsible for some of the thickest, dullest, deadest MoFi recuts throughout their shameful catalog.

With mastering credits on this Michael McDonald album, Gerry Rafferty (058) and Blondie (050), you have to wonder how this guy kept getting work.