Hot Stamper Pressings of the Music of Frank Sinatra Available Now
Mobile Fidelity may have made the perfect record for you.
This, of course, depends on who you are. More precisely, it depends on whether you care about having better sound, and whether you know how to go about acquiring pressings with better sound.
As for the MoFi you see pictured, our audition notes checked off some of its strengths, which boil down to these: it’s quiet, it’s tonally correct, and on the equipment most audiophiles will probably use to play it back, it does not seem to be especially veiled, opaque or compressed compared to many of its fellow audiophile pressings.
If you’re the kind of audiophile who doesn’t want to do the work required to find a top quality vintage pressing on his own, or buy one from us, this is actually a very good sounding record and a good way for you to go.
In that sense it is the ideal pressing for most audiophiles. If you want to know if you fit into the category of “most audiophiles,” here is one way to find out:
Ask yourself these three questions:
- Do you want the expense and hassle of finding a nice original stereo copy?
- Do you want to invest in proper record cleaning equipment to restore the glorious sound of the original’s 50-plus year old vinyl?
- Do you want to spend the time (decades) and money (many tens of thousands of dollars) to build and tweak a top quality analog playback system?
If you don’t want to do these things, you are not alone.
In fact, you are clearly in the majority, part of that enormously tall, fat bulge right in the middle of the bell curve. As the quintessential audiophile record lover, a big part of the mass of the mass-market, Mobile Fidelity has made the perfect record for you.
Without a better pressing to play against it, you will have no reason to suspect that anything is wrong with it.
More precisely, you will have no way to know that anything is wrong with it.