Crazy Mobile Fidelity Record Collection Randomly Walks Into The Store - Audiophile Mega Haul

[@alexiusa.pereira9956]

Mike, I don’t own a turntable, I live on the other side of the world (Singapore), but I’m here simply to enjoy your storytelling. Thanks for this.

[@gotham61]

Mobile Fidelity founder Brad Miller was a steam train enthusiast. The name Mobile Fidelity comes from the fact that they originally released records of (mobile) trains.

[@R3TR0R4V3]

Wow, that's incredible! You always seem to run into the coolest collections. 😎

[@astrafalustre8259]

Insane stuff ! Now we're talkin' RARE !!!

[@djjoeykmusic]

Wow, awesome! Thank you Michael. Have a wonderful one

[@matthewhilty4209]

I really like these stories because it shows how the sausage is made ( or vinyl is stamped and selected).

[@travisw6378]

the irony is not lost on you doing this video, great score!

[@djjoeykmusic]

Wow, had to watch this again. Unbelievable Way to go Micheal! Awesome

[@TheElvis460]

Living close to MFSL (Sebastopol) in the 70"s and 80's a local record store (PREZ Records) was kind of the dumping ground for test pressings from Mobile Fidelity. He would put them in the $1 bin ($2 for Beatle TP's). I didn't care about the white covers, I only wanted for the music, so I bought as many as I could. Included a lot of Un-Released Titles. Most of these were lost in 2017 fire

[@therealbushboy6440]

That may have been Joe Bermudaz .. except hed never sell the beatles cheap.. he had 2 uhqr beatles test pressing box sets in 1985 and was selling individual lps from one of them for $200 usd each in 1985

[@novisnick6928]

Thanks for sharing Mike!

[@phillipabbinante-ot7dy]

Amazing find with the test pressings.

[@LifelongMusicJunkie]

You'll be shipping me an order tomorrow so toss one of those Bowie Let's Dance in :))))

[@BOBBRADLEYCHANNEL]

Well that’s certainly a cool box of records!

[@pancakelover1000]

Sweet find, Mike.

[@dimebagdave77]

🔥AWESOME🔥 love seeing what comes in..THNX

[@retromusings]

OMG! Incredible. Thanks for this video.

[@therealbushboy6440]

Here’s another fun video from last year at acoustic sounds m.kzbin.info/www/bejne/e3TapIhjgceNhNk

[@audiotomb]

I saw 5 of these in a record store in Baton Rouge and passed on all but one of them. What no covers, no labels I didn’t realize they were test pressings

[@automatedelectronics6062]

Mofi records used to be pressed by JVC in Japan. After JVC stopped pressing records, Mofi started using RTI. Brad Miller's forte was sound effects and trains. He did a quadraphonic album about the Freedom Train featuring the Southern Pacific #4449 Lima steam locomotive, which was the main locomotive which pulled the Freedom Train all over the U.S.

[@chrismckee4154]

A full run of Beatles UHQR’s?! Holy crap. First time hearing about that. Insane money for those I’m sure.

[@therealbushboy6440]

They did 5 test pressing boxsets inuhqr test pressings. Fromthe three i have they are cut flat from the tapes.. no smiey eq and there are many standard test pressings cut the same way too.before Giorgio opened his mouth with stupid suggestions

[@clevebaker8399]

If I got any mofis in the store it was a great day!! Good job.. I have a couple of the train LPs.. they are the earliest ones from late 60s early 70s! Phenomenal work

[@Daddo1]

“I collect unreleased MOFI test pressings”…..the brain explodes with potential praise, mockery, rejoinders , social commentary, questions and quips! I’ll just go with : LOVE YOU, MIKE!

[@BeatbyBeatwiththeBeatles]

Incredible

[@nickvanr.8584]

I found tons of mofis at a thrift store six years ago.

[@trevorlees1241]

Yes I have about 200 test pressings !! From the test engineer after dinner at his house !! I have unreleased discs too ! And many UHQH’s test pressings single sided only !! Regards Trevor Lees

[@therealbushboy6440]

I think we got closer to 300 as it filled more than an mfsl shipping box Cheers Christopher

[@therealbushboy6440]

Greetings from Australia my brotber and I as mfsl distributors from 1985-2000 got close to 300 test pressings Greg Sc. Got three uhqr beatles out of one set( they only made 5)… and no smiey eq ! Rubber soul is great and soundsnothing like the standard release! My favourite unreleased is not give me the night … it is catch bull at four cat stevens.. Somewhere i have part oftheir computer print out list of test pressings.. Brad Miller released sound effects cds as dts surround cds before he sadly died. Label isted as Mobile Fidelity International. PM me if youd like some photos. My brothers copy of Bella Donna got signed by her when she was in australia once.

[@sandyfader4649]

Is there a Clockwork Orange hand written reference on the two Beethoven ones? Alex and Lovely Lovely Ludwig Van?

[@carlinphx]

Wow! I want one of the Let’s Dance pressings. What a find! Are they going in the store?

[@davidellis5141]

Did Taylor drop by to get some MoFi ?

[@trevorlees1241]

Oh yes single sided UHQR Beatles test pressings !!! So rare actually beyond rare !! Regards Trevor Lees Sydney

[@therealbushboy6440]

Trevor you have a one sided MFSL test presing of Sgt pepperA side and another trst pressing with just b on both sides but your uhqr of yellow submarine and uhqr of abbey road are not one sided

[@SonicPVC]

The train sounds records were created for the model railroading crowd, or invariably, the crowd picked up on them.

[@MrMightymind]

MFSL1-095 Comes up as André Previn & His Pals - West Side Story But wow, what a bizarre collection!

[@Twin_Hook]

This is so weird because I literally just listened to this recording (via stream) not 15 minutes ago because it was just announced as a new Analogue Productions/Contemporary pressing. Freaky.

[@BlakeTDorman]

Wait, Mike was it number 9?

[@harrysmusicroom]

Congratulations, awesome collection! Are you adding them to Discogs?

[@zeitgeistyreport]

So how is your relationship with mofi these days?

[@YoStabbaStabba]

I would love to know the value of these w/o being a gold member just for curiosity's sake.

[@JWD1992]

What was often MoFi's reason for cancelling releases? Obviously there have been many releases across many labels that didn't make it past the test pressing stage. But since MoFi was remastering tried-and-true titles, I would imagine they already knew what would be a seller before licensing it. Would the license agreements fall through? Or did they hear the test pressings and realize their process didn't suit the given recording?

[@therealbushboy6440]

The uhqr factory got dismantled in japan to make way for cds around 1984/85. Sometimes its licensing issues.

[@globalxdarkness5184]

Which numer was that again Mike? @2:55

[@TheInGroove]

9

[@TheHSIHP]

Any CCR albums in there? $60 seems like a "good deal" for one.

[@papabear1417]

Ask Fremer about the ones you dont know what's what. He knows Everything. Lol

[@matts9064]

And he’ll be the first to tell you he does 😂😂😂😂

[@youtubeisstoopid]

Oh Wow!!!!

[@kguy2know]

what was the 1st one you listened to???

[@markfoster4332]

Mike, what is the average price of these mofi test pressings?

[@OwlsRNotWhatTheySeem]

5 dolla

[@michaelackley5773]

Gold membership? What you have to pay extra to buy records from you??!! Thats fkn crazy😂

[@jerryandlisa27]

Lucky !

[@ummagumma7826]

How does Mofi have such a huge back catalog but so little in stock to buy now. I would love to have been there to witness this initial exchange.

[@therealbushboy6440]

Different business inthe 1980’s .. they went broke and got taken over another company Completely different businesses

[@ummagumma7826]

@@therealbushboy6440 oh wow I did not know that. Thanks

[@Schueyjr]

The screenshot for this video should be your new t-shirt design.

[@gotham61]

I have two unreleased MoFi test pressings. both are sealed.

[@therealbushboy6440]

I assure you its more fun if you play them… besides they generally never sealed a record they made for evaluation

[@gotham61]

@@therealbushboy6440 I got them directly from a MoFi representative about 15 years ago. They are sealed. I have 10,000 other records I can listen to, thank you

[@therealbushboy6440]

Yrs but if one of the test pressings is catch bull at four, you’ll find yourself less inclined to plsy the other 10,000… but keep them sealed because when that sad day comes when you sadly die, your widow will sell them to me for $5 and ill then gladly open them up and play them!

[@MrFryfish]

How is go through someone else stuff and commemt on YT? Does this feel good!?

[@Andy-rc9db]

Out of interest, why would there be testing pressings of albums not released on MoFi? It just seems a lot of work to get the tapes, cut the lacquers, produce the stampers, deliver test pressings… and then never see the light of day? Surely MoFi wouldn’t do all of that work without contracts in place?

[@therealbushboy6440]

Jvc factory closedfor starters The uhqr went first around 1984/85 to make way for cd production Licensing problems happen too Simple things was not a big seller the one hit from it was “hard rock cafe” which sounds a lot like twist and shout

[@robertlakay88]

Are test pressings normally released in small batches commercially? I always thought of a test pressing as one or two records for internal use at a record studio or label...

[@therealbushboy6440]

They’re not supposed to be sold.. no royalties

[@projectpat006]

I have a white label promo of Aqualung

[@Ampersand00]

Rivaling Chad for claiming that Phoenix is, in fact, the 'vinyl capital'? Great collection!

[@bigsweetc6]

Not even close! It’s Los Angeles by miles. We got places like rockaway that get record executives dumpin stuff like that there all the time.

[@therealbushboy6440]

Chad has a lot of mfsl test pressings He has a one sided mfsl of te beatles rarities! And i sod his uhqr test pressing of ricky leejonesin1989

[@TLA1014]

Holy shit! MoFi Test Pressings!

[@chavez515]

😄number 9, number 9 ,......number 9 😂

[@mazzysmusic]

#9

[@PengDerick]

Hey Maslof, you ever notice you resemble a rodent? It's those close-set eyes.

[@gotham61]

It's Stan Ricker, not Richter

[@jerryandlisa27]

I found trains mofi album for a dollar at goodwill

[@PurpleHounding]

oh man

[@theboomerscalper]

I’ll take the sound effect record with the fart sounds.

[@PengDerick]

It's your life story, Wanked.

[@hemantishwaran5741]

I really wonder how valuable mofi will be going forward. Once a brand gets a bad rep it’s hard to break - and reality check these test pressings are only worth what someone will pay for them and that’s driven by collectors interest not sound quality

[@therealbushboy6440]

The ones in the video have no similarities with what gets done today. Different businesses.

[@hemantishwaran5741]

@@therealbushboy6440 and it's valuable because .... ????

[@therealbushboy6440]

@@hemantishwaran5741 Different company and management,they're not from the people whomade DSD copies, they're not records from digital transfers they're cut from the original master tapes and their on JVC supervinyl that's no longer being made, and there's not many of them (usually single figures)and many of them have never been released by any audiophile company.

[@Anthony-fz7uf]

This guys causes the MOFI cancel culture and than sells MOFI lol .

[@therealbushboy6440]

Different mfsl companies

[@Anthony-fz7uf]

Well aware . He is all about money

[@petercurd7400]

Mofi caused their problems, not Mike

[@PTJarman]

Holy $hit

[@m_recordz]

Walks *Into

[@sandyfader4649]

Number 9, Number 9, Number 9…… LOL.

[@hooville9059]

Being transparent as you've have in the past how much did you pay for the collection so your Gold members know if the prices are fair? Looks like most are dup's of early non desirable redo's and naturally you're keeping the gems.

[@therealbushboy6440]

Total price will give you a weird average price. Brad millers sound effects price is no match for George Benson or Carole King

[@NOAHCASAS]

OF DIGITAL MO·FI ??

[@therealbushboy6440]

Not this stuff

[@jbwelda2934]

so you told him it was all worthless and offered him shit for it. Been there, done that, don't take records to stores to sell them anymore. jb

[@keepitgreasey1]

I am getting so tired of all those snobs with their 300.000$ systems. And then those overrated MFR. I heard the saxophone a little better, chit chat chit that. Man, listen to the songs and not how it sounds.

[@TheAboriginal1]

What

[@audiophileman7047]

Old MoFi good. New MoFi bad.

[@TheHSIHP]

No one thought new MoFi was bad until you all found out what was in the secret sauce

[@audiophileman7047]

@@TheHSIHP No, I stopped buying MoFi albums long before (circa 2014) this scandal broke. After being disappointed with a few of their albums, it just became clear to me that profit was more important than sound.

[@markh.9822]

​@@audiophileman7047 old MOFI arent very good, almost none of those are definitive and are beat out by modern audiophile reissues

[@TheHSIHP]

@@audiophileman7047 fair

[@audiophileman7047]

@@markh.9822 I have some and like them. It's subjective.

[@christopher.cordova]

Sliding the records in and out like that sure does leave hairlines

[@TheAboriginal1]

You're right this guy has no idea what he's doing 😂😂

[@erikmolnar6585]

Looks like a box of junk steps. I've kinda lost all respect for mofi, but I've never owned one, so maybe I'm missing out? But most of the albums they have released, minus Dark Side and General Pepsi, never interested me personally

[@therealbushboy6440]

Different company

[@BattManion1979]

But you hate MOFI

[@therealbushboy6440]

Its a completely different mfsl business

[@revelry1969]

#9 silly, shouldn’t be worth anymore. Maybe number 1.

[@pseudoty]

Do you get the reference or just being obtuse?

[@revelry1969]

@@pseudoty of course. But silly shouldn’t increase the value one damn bit

[@JWD1992]

@@revelry1969 If we're being honest, silly can go a long way in our rekkid-collecting world. I don't personally care about it being #9, but that is a "significant" number to a lot of hardcore Beatles fans. I would say the same for #4 (because "The Fab Four").

[@revelry1969]

@@JWD1992 true dat