The author offers a plausible explanation for early digital recordings gaining a bad reputation: the release of CDs from masters made for vinyl, without reversi

The author offers a plausible explanation for early digital recordings gaining a bad reputation: the release of CDs from masters made for vinyl, without reversing the high-end enhancement those masters were made with in order to compensate for the losses that occur later in the process. As the author says, "the original master tape is not how those analog albums were meant to sound. The record is." Making a vinyl recording from a master intended for high-fidelity (as opposed to lossily-compressed) digital reproduction will have the opposite problem. All of this is an argument for matching the master to the medium, rather than for a one-step analogue process (to be clear, none of this justifies MoFi's deception - in fact, one can argue that it was not only being deceptive, but also deliberately exploiting some misunderstandings of its customers.)