Mofi Inner sleeves from Audio Basics in Canada

[Johnny Vinyl]

With the low Canuck buck pricing for these has really shot up in the last few years. The price for a 50-pack ranges from $32.99-$36.99....so about $35 on average.. However, if you buy in multiples from Audio Basics in Kleinburg, On (just North of Toronto) the price comes down significantly, plus you'll get FREE shipping.

The price goes down to $27.00 when buying 5 packs. That's an $8 saving per pack.

Just thought I'd pass that on.

[Tunes]

Thx for the tip. Good timing as i'm due to replenish.

[Johnny Vinyl]

I ordered some a few days ago. Should be here in a day or so.

[spinblackcircle]

I've switched to the Disckeeper Sleeves from Sleeve City and would not go back to the Mo-Fi sleeves. They are a little more expensive buy IMHO worth the extra few cents per sleeve.

[jonathanb]

These are easily the best inner sleeves I've encountered. I tried a pack of 50 and now use nothing else.

[Bill Hart]

Hmmm. I have yet to find the perfect inner. I've used almost all of the usual suspects, old and new. I too switched to the Sleeve City Ultimate Audiophile ones a while ago- the double lined ones- I don't slide the sleeved record back into the jacket, to minimize static and wear, but insert it into a sandwich made of poly liners around the jacket and the whole kit and caboodle, often including a spare aftermarket jacket as part of the sandwich for extra robustness. I've found that the Ultimate Audiophile ones leave sleeve lint- nothing harmful, but annoying. For my high value records, as I reclean them, I'm now using the MA liner- we'll see how those go--they are very soft, woven- I think the sleeve detritus issue may be minimized, but because they are floppy/limp, not as easy to handle as those Sleeve City Ultimate ones.

[Joe Pittman]

I've switched to the Disckeeper Sleeves from Sleeve City and would not go back to the Mo-Fi sleeves. They are a little more expensive buy IMHO worth the extra few cents per sleeve.

I standardized on the Sleeve City Diskeeper Ultimate sleeve several years ago and will never go back to lesser designs. They are also the perfect size and fit into an LP's paper sleeves. Even in quantity (10 packs of 50) they are outrageously expensive, $0.51US or approx $0.67CA.

[jonathanb]

Given the cost of the record the sleeve will be housing, the cost per sleeve seems almost negligible to me.

[Johnny Vinyl]

Thanks guys, but this was just about getting a nice deal.....I haven't tried the others mentioned as we have limited selections here , but I have no issues with the MoFi ones.

[JCOConnell]

didn't mofi have an issue with their sleeves ruining records at one point? has that problem been absolutely solved and how can you be sure youre not getting old stock of the bad sleeves?

[Johnny Vinyl]

didn't mofi have an issue with their sleeves ruining records at one point? has that problem been absolutely solved and how can you be sure youre not getting old stock of the bad sleeves?

That was some years ago. It's not an issue any longer.

[Johnny Vinyl]

Not as far as I know JC! I personally never had an issue and I don't think it was extremely widespread.

[JCOConnell]

I'm scared as hell of the mofi sleeves because I had a valuable record get trashed by one. I had a mint copy of mofi CCR cosmos factory that had been put in an aftermarket mofi sleeve, not the original sleeve it came with. After not listenening to it for about a half dozen years, when I
pulled it out to play it, it had multiple raised white areas on the record all gooey like it had been exposed to superglue fumes or some other gas. Needless to say the record went from mint to unplayable and I never want that to happen again.

[Johnny Vinyl]

Ouch! I don't blame you for being put off by them then. I would as well.

[Madfloyd]

I also use Diskkeeper sleeves and basically throw away the Mofi and QP ones...

[mep]

Hmmm. I have yet to find the perfect inner. I've used almost all of the usual suspects, old and new. I too switched to the Sleeve City Ultimate Audiophile ones a while ago- the double lined ones- I don't slide the sleeved record back into the jacket, to minimize static and wear, but insert it into a sandwich made of poly liners around the jacket and the whole kit and caboodle, often including a spare aftermarket jacket as part of the sandwich for extra robustness. I've found that the Ultimate Audiophile ones leave sleeve lint- nothing harmful, but annoying. For my high value records, as I reclean them, I'm now using the MA liner- we'll see how those go--they are very soft, woven- I think the sleeve detritus issue may be minimized, but because they are floppy/limp, not as easy to handle as those Sleeve City Ultimate ones.

Inner Sleeve Viagra next on the market? Seriously, my bitch with the MoFi sleeves is they wrinkle faster than a Chinese Shar Pei puppy. I try very hard to slide the MoFi sleeves VERY carefully in the LP jacket, but I'm always amazed at how many of them have bent corners when I pull them back out of the jackets.

[Bill Hart]

Inner Sleeve Viagra next on the market? Seriously, my bitch with the MoFi sleeves is they wrinkle faster than a Chinese Shar Pei puppy. I try very hard to slide the MoFi sleeves VERY carefully in the LP jacket, but I'm always amazed at how many of them have bent corners when I pull them back out of the jackets.

Aside from that, just the re-sleeving process back into the jacket can create static, and puts more wear and tear on the jackets. I make a sandwich, as mentioned, that easily allows me to pull a record from the package without disturbing the jacket. It does mean you are using more poly bags and some other stuff, but I find it easier to work with and it satisfies my compulsive needs as well.

[mep]

You're in way deep Bill.

[MylesBAstor]

Inner Sleeve Viagra next on the market? Seriously, my bitch with the MoFi sleeves is they wrinkle faster than a Chinese Shar Pei puppy. I try very hard to slide the MoFi sleeves VERY carefully in the LP jacket, but I'm always amazed at how many of them have bent corners when I pull them back out of the jackets.

Remember the MOFI records/sleeves were/are used with an inner cardboard sleeve that prevented fold over and wrinkling. The MOFI sleeves probably were not intended to be used without.

[MylesBAstor]

With the low Canuck buck pricing for these has really shot up in the last few years. The price for a 50-pack ranges from $32.99-$36.99....so about $35 on average.. However, if you buy in multiples from Audio Basics in Kleinburg, On (just North of Toronto) the price comes down significantly, plus you'll get FREE shipping.

The price goes down to $27.00 when buying 5 packs. That's an $8 saving per pack.

Just thought I'd pass that on.

Thanks for the heads up Johnny. I know this might be obsessive but back in the '90s MOFI intended to discontinue their inner sleeves (I actually wrote about it too!) and I started preparing for the eventual apocalypse back then that never came. I ended up buying a ton load of MOFI and Discwasher VRP inner sleeves. Probably about 2000 or 3000 inner sleeves and still have a good stock. In part because most of the new LPs I buy come with premium sleeves. So the only time replace inner sleeves is with used LPs.

I never had any issues with the MOFI sleeves in all my years of use. But who knows? Humidity, temperature, bacteria, mold, etc?