Which MoFi and MoFi UHQR LPs?


I'm curious and would like to hear your opinions, recommendations and experiences...
Which out-of-print Mobile Fidelity and MoFi UHQR vinyl sets are the most desireable and valuable?
Is there a list somewhere that answers these questions, including what someone might expect to pay for the items sealed and unsealed?
I can see eBay ads, but most are "Buy It Now" pricing not auctions, so it's hard to tell if the prices are realistic or not....whatever that means among Audiophools in this economy!!
golden_ears
I may be wrong but from what I remembered MoFi did not put out hardly any UHQR DISKS. Yes many pressings were made from Mo Fi,But I think only 8 or 9 disks were made using
UHQR. At one time I had them all including Dark Side Of The Moon Sealed. My best one was Sgt Peppers by The Beatles
This was incredible sounding. I think I had pressing number 121 out of the 3000 limited edition made. The early
UHQR'S were all limited edition in box sets with paper work included verifying its authenticity.
Earl Klugs pressing was great as well. Supertramp okay I guess. I never did hear the Pink Floyd sold it sealed to Chad for $200.00 many years ago . Now going for 1k SEALED i THINK
dON c.
Ditto on John Klemmer. Also consider Gordon Lightfoot Sundown, it's one of my favorites.
Hi Yogiboy and All,
I followed this thread for a while and the Steely Dan 'Aja' comments and G. L. 'Sundown' etc.
I have both LP's BUT not from MoFi, so... how I wonder can the stock Reprise LP by G.L. sound any much better from MoFi then it is in the first place? It sounds *VERY* good in stock, so why bother?! For a thicker slap of vinyl? Maybe, but I can't see it.
As to Aja, mine is mastered by Kevin Grey and Robert Pincus at AcousTech Mastering, Camarillo, CA from 'Cisco' limited edition S/N 4786 and it sound very good.
This makes me wonder what went wrong with the MoFi item ---- and who actually has THE master tape?
Everyone works from 'original' masters... how MANY can there be I ask??

Lastly, I have a number of these "Gold" MoFi CDs and I'm not sure any/many of them made a positive difference --- some sounded with more bass 'pumped up' and with some - I'm not sure there's any positive difference at all.
Bob Marley's "Exodus" sounds pretty much over the top in bass as I recall, not any 'improvement' as I would see it.

It IS worth the inquiry before spending the extra $$$ to have an idea of their BETTER efforts, I think.
Best,
Axel
I have several of the original MoFi releases from the 70s-80s.
My experience is that they can be very good, but some not so great. My "Tea for the Tillerman" is a bit too forward and hot,but it does have it's moments."Dark Side of the Moon" is nothing special other than very quiet during the heart beats."The Doors" is simply dreadful.The "Aqualung" is good,but so is the original.CSNY "Deja Vu" is markedly better than the original.
The vinyl in these old ones was very good but not extra heavy. No 180g back then.I am not sure it matters.
Personally I have found that if you can find a original it is ALWAYS better than a reissue.This may not be wholly true with some of the old Mercurys where the Golden Jubilees are better than the Living Presence originals.That said, I will confess that I have not heard the 'speakers corner" reissues which are lauded by some as wonderful.I know that if Proprius,Harmonia Mundi and Lyrita were to reissue I would have to jump on them for the music if nothing else.
Perhaps since vinyl is really the only medium in the music biz that is showing growth the big labels might jump back into the fray,which would drive the prices down some.
With the resurgence of vinyl I fear that the old pressing engineers are all gone and it may take some time for the new guys to learn their trade.
I also fear that the prices that these new 180g-200g reissues are fetching will turn anyone that is not loaded (money)will be left out of the magic and charm of analog.We shall see.
For us old farts with all our vintage LPs it is no so much a problem,but for the generations that follow it could kill the whole deal.
sorry for going off topic

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I bought a lot of MoFi's back in the day. The only UHQR I ever bought was "Tea For the Tillerman" by Cat Stevens. Sounded great, but sold it because I didn't really like the album that much.
Two of my favorite MoFi's were "Night and Day" by Joe Jackson and "Abandoned Luncheonette" by Hall and Oates.

Cheers.