AnalogPlanet.com, a New Website Edited by Michael Fremer, Launches!
Vinyl Galore: Source Interlink is delighted to announce the launch of the newest Home Tech Group website AnalogPlanet.com, edited by the world’s foremost proponent of analog technology, Michael Fremer.
T.H.E. Show Newport 2012: What A Show!
Complete show coverage of T.H.E. Show in Newport Beach, California from John Atkinson, Stephen Mejias and Jason Victor Serinus.
Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Grant Green on Blue Note 45
Three great new offerings from Music Matters Jazz, the house that reissues Blue Note classics on gatefold-covered, double-disc vinyl 45rpm LPs: Wayne Shorter's Speak No Evil, Herbie Hancock's Empyrean Isles, and Grant Green's Street of Dreams. All were recorded in 1964: the first two are among the best titles in Blue Note's catalogs; the third is one of the more purely pleasurable.
PrimaLuna ProLogue Premium integrated amplifier
Integrated amplifiers are hot. I don't mean in the literal sense--although having a preamplifier and stereo power amplifier in the same chassis usually results in higher running temperatures--but in the metaphorical one. Once viewed as the type of component that no serious audiophile would consider buying, integrated amps have made a comeback in popularity and prestige.
Wilson Audio Specialties Duette loudspeaker
I had had it in the back of my mind for some time to try to hear the Wilson Duette, if only because celebrated classical recording engineer Tony Faulkner had, some time ago, shared with me his opinion that the Duette's simpler crossover made it the most coherent speaker in Wilson's line.
Dispatches from the Other Portland
Portland, Maine, my hometown for the better part of two decades, is a pretty hip place. We are not, for the most part, innovators in fashion, but we are early adopters of the more interesting latest styles.
Liberty Audio B2B-1 phono preamplifier
The all-FET, class-A, B2B-1 phono preamplifier ($1749), made in the US by Liberty Audio, is beautifully built inside and out, and comes in a heavy-duty aluminum chassis with a baked-on crackle finish and a 3/8"-thick, black-anodized faceplate.
Doc Watson, 1923-2012
Arthel "Doc" Watson, one of America's greatest musical treasures, has died in Winston-Salem, North Carolina at the age of 89. A seven-time Grammy Award winner, Watson was known for his rich, unaffected singing voice, his apparently limitless repertoire of Appalachian folk songs, and a flatpicking guitar style that influenced a great many of his peers and inspired countless others to take up the instrument.
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