MFSL Sound Recordings

Has anyone heard these things? After listening to a Gold CD copy of the Wall, I never want to go back! Comfortably Numb sounds so much better without the noise getting in your way! The EMI version is compressed beyond all belief, as if louder is better....
The MFSL copy has so much more life to it. Anyone else a fan of these?

Dunno about their CD's - but I have two of their half-speed mastered LP's (DSotM and American Beauty). Both sound as good today as when I got them twenty years ago.

I don't know what you're talking about but i'd like to know. explain please.

http://www.mofi.com/

This place has some good info about it.
Try Ebay for copies, they usually go for about $50.

I've not heard them or of them. Sounds cool though.

I know a place where you can download them if you want to know, but I'm not sure if it's allowed here. I can PM the site to you....

Thanks.

Isn't that like SACD? i was thinking of getting sacd but if you know both which would you recommend and why?

I just buy good 'ol compact discs. $8.99 for used, $11.99 for new. Works for me.

Mobile Fidelity Sound Labs make both regular CDs (although now they make them out of gold instead of aluminum) and hybrid SACDs, which usually play in regular CD players as well as in SACD players. If you don't have a full 5.1 speaker setup with a classy receiver etc., then SACDs offer no advantage over regular CDs. However, if you are willing to drop some $$$ on an SACD player and quality speakers/receiver, hybrid SACDs (like Dark Side of the Moon 30th Anniversary, The Who's Tommy Deluxe Edition etc.) are fantastic, really amazing to listen to. All MFSL does is try to find the original album tapes and copy them as faithfully as possible onto CD or SACD.

The results vary depending on the source material. MFSL's "The Wall" discs are vastly better than the regular remastered CDs (due to some over-zealous compression on EMI's part), but their other Pink Floyd titles aren't nearly as much of an improvement. "Meddle" wasn't compressed at all by EMI, and "Atom Heart Mother" came from an earlier generation than MFSL had access to, so those offer nothing over EMI's CDs. But MFSL's "Dark Side of the Moon" is famous for being one of the best-sounding CDs ever made. I dunno if that's true or not, but I think the SACD sounds better (not the CD layer, which was compressed, but the layer you can only hear with an SACD player).

I found that the MFSL Atom Heart Mother had less hiss than the EMI.

I'll take another listen.. but my immedate reaction was, what are you smoking?

The DSotM MFSL CD really does sound fantastic. Drops a little off of the top end, greatly enhances bass frequencies, redresses the stereo bias issue of the bog standard CDs and early vinyl.

Tragically much easier to fatally scratch, though.

They're actually mostly the same, except during the quieter bits, when EMI filters out some of the higher frequencies to give the illusion of less hiss. And EMI's version is slightly compressed, but does have a few of the more noticable scratches filtered out.

Harrumph! Well at least the MFSL version is shinier than my EMI copy!