Long time ago before the CD there was a chain store who sold vinyl, mostly classical music with free royalties, and in their ads they put the list of all chemicals used in the manufacture of the vinyl. Something like more than 40 items and their proportions, like phosphorus tribromide: 0.023%.

It was very clever marketing as I still remember it. But I forgot the name of the company. The logo as a gold eagle. I'm sure the audiofools would fall for it in 2022.

"Hey my vinyl has 0.345% of divinylbenzene and the arm of my turntable is in titanium alloy with 4.37% vanadium" 

A $100 LP?

Are People that crazy to pay this?

Well 40,000 people will or must be.

Limited to 40,000 Numbered Copies

To others who missed the last three weeks:...

From someone who "hates" digital, but acknowledges these sound damn good no matter how they were made...

MOFI should add digital downloads to their services?

The only question this really raises for me is - why DSD?!

The only question this really raises for me is - why DSD?!

Quote from: NateHigs on 2022-08-05 10:19:58

The only question this really raises for me is - why DSD?!

Well suited for SACD?

Or the idea that this is closer to what an 1-bit ADC does internally ... uh, if that is what they use?!

This service should be for dial-up modem users only, to make the download process as analog as possible.

Quote from: bennetng on 2022-08-05 14:40:21

This service should be for dial-up modem users only, to make the download process as analog as possible.

Telephone exchanges are fully digital since the late 60s early 70s. Depending on countries.
Voices were converted to 1 bit - like in DSD but with a 3.4kHz limit.

Quote from: biloute on 2022-08-05 15:35:31

Quote from: bennetng on 2022-08-05 14:40:21

This service should be for dial-up modem users only, to make the download process as analog as possible.

Telephone exchanges are fully digital since the late 60s early 70s. Depending on countries.
Voices were converted to 1 bit - like in DSD but with a 3.4kHz limit.

Then you should mention digital delay line for vinyl production as well.

Quote from: Porcus on 2022-08-05 15:11:32

Quote from: NateHigs on 2022-08-05 10:19:58

The only question this really raises for me is - why DSD?!

Well suited for SACD?

Or the idea that this is closer to what an 1-bit ADC does internally ... uh, if that is what they use?!

I don't think SACD is still a thing really - I'd be surprised if that was it.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/music/2022/08/05/mofi-records-analog-digital-scandal/

How a Phoenix record store owner set the audiophile world on fire  

Wood says that MoFi decided to add DSD not for convenience but because its engineers felt they could help improve their records.
[...]
Having a file allows them to tinker with the recordings if they’re not pleased with a test pressing and make another.

At MoFi’s headquarters, Esposito looked at tapes and machinery the company uses to master its records. He also saw vintage packaging and advertising materials for past releases, including mock-ups for Beatles reissues. Then he took out his Panasonic camcorder and asked Wood if it was okay for him to set up and do an interview with the three mastering engineers he had met. No problem, they said.
[...]
 The engineers, who had stressed the use of tape and working “all analog” in the past, didn’t hesitate to reference the company’s embrace of Direct Stream Digital technology.

Davis, the owner, not only didn’t invite Esposito but also didn’t learn about the visit until after Wood had extended the invitation. He tried to get to Sebastopol for the tour but said that a long line at a rental car check-in left him arriving at MoFi headquarters only after Esposito was finished.

By then, the damage was done. Last week, Wood was asked whether he regretted the interview with the engineers. He broke down.

“I regret everything, man,” he said.

Davis also did not appreciate the interview. Music Direct’s stereo equipment business brings in revenue of more than $40 million a year, and MoFi earned about $9 million last year. But the record company has just a handful of full-time staffers and no crisis-management plan. He doesn’t blame the engineers for what happened

“I mean, it was not a well-thought-out plan,” says Davis. “Let’s put it that way.”

In 2020, Grant McLean, a Canadian customer, got into a debate with a friend about MoFi’s sourcing. McLean believed in the company and wrote to confirm that he was right. In a response he provided to The Post, a customer service representative wrote McLean that “there is no analog to digital conversion in our vinyl cutting process.”