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AnalogPlanet April 2015

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AXPONA 2015 Coverage Starts Friday, April 24th
AXPONA 2015 presents "AudioCon" Friday April 24th through Sunday April 26th at Chicago's Westin O'Hare Hotel. Analogplanet will be covering the show from an analog perspective here and presenting seminars as well as tweeting

Eric Leefe's Last Call to Rock'n'Roll
Many analogplanet.com readers are well-acquainted with Eric Leefe's story. For those who are not, I first read about Eric in an inspirational piece by music journalist Jim Beckerman published last summer inThe Bergen Record.

Confession: I Didn't Go to a Record Store on RSD
I missed Record Store Day this year. As some of you know, I was banned last year from my local record store for good behavior. I did nothing wrong. The owner's brother started lecturing me rather angrily on how to remove a record from a jacket and it escalated out of control from there.

Elvis Costello's King of America Gets the Royal Treatment From Mo-Fi
E.C.’s tenth studio record, released in 1986, is among his finest musically and sonically, which explains why it wasn’t well received on the pop charts. It only went to #39.

"Tea For the Tillerman" at 45 rpm From Analogue Productions
Analogue Productions has just released Tea For the Tillerman on a double 45rpm 200g, numbered, limited to 3500 copies edition, mastered by George Marino. What? Didn't he pass away a few years ago? Yes.

"Ultimate Sinatra" Compilation Includes Columbia, Capitol and Reprise Tracks(Updated)
Capitol/UMe kicks off the Frank Sinatra centennial (b. 12/12/1915) with Ultimate Sinatra a multi-format April 21st release that will include a 24 track double 180g vinyl edition, a 25 track CD, a 26 track digital download and a deluxe 101 track 4 CD set.

The George-Warren Turntable--Well-Made, Sensibly Engineered, Elegant-Looking
Souix-Falls, South Dakota based George-Warren Precision Sound manufactures and sells direct but one model turntable. After spending a few months with it, I’d say one is enough.

Joni Mitchell Sounds Off on Digital Recording
In case you missed this Billboard Magazine interview with Joni Mitchell, conducted upon the release of her 4 CD retrospective box set Love Has Many Faces, A Quartet, A Ballet, Waiting to Be Danced.

M2tech Joplin A/D Converter Gets Mk2 Update
The M2tech Joplin, one of the A/D converters profiled in the recent A/D converter "shoot out" has had a "make over".

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Joni Mitchell Sounds Off on Digital Recording
In case you missed this Billboard Magazine interview with Joni Mitchell, conducted upon the release of her 4 CD retrospective box set Love Has Many Faces, A Quartet, A Ballet, Waiting to Be Danced.

M2tech Joplin A/D Converter Gets Mk2 Update
The M2tech Joplin, one of the A/D converters profiled in the recent A/D converter "shoot out" has had a "make over".

Storytone A Twice Told Neil Young Album (Revised Mastering Info)
On Storytone Neil Young wears his heart on his sleeve and splattered on his windshield, serving it up both straight and backed by orchestral and big band arrangements. All of the performances are recorded live, with no overdubs.

Legendary Mastering Engineer Doug Sax Has Passed Away
It is with much sadness that I inform you that Doug Sax, the great mastering engineer, direct-to-disc pioneer, co-founder of Sheffield Labs, founder of The Mastering Lab and of course a truly wonderful and pleasingly cantankerous person, passed away the morning of April 2nd.

A Mono Set-Up That Won’t Break the Bank
The Italian-built Tektron Italia Mono Phono preamplifier manufactured exclusively for Robyatt Audio is an all-tube design housed in a wooden box topped by a solid copper plate that serves as the unit’s ground plane.

D'Angelo's Black Messiah Took Fifteen Years To Produce
Squishy, sticky, elastic beats, some so slow and off-kilter that they threaten to fall apart, ghostly falsetto harmonies, cavernous empty spaces between the rhythmic wah-wah pulses and a distant, almost other-worldly sonic perspective announce D’Angelo’s singular sinewy yet gentle vision.

Oscar Peterson In Your Living Room Via Six LP Box Set
Back in the late 1990s Speakers Corner released the 180 gram LP Oscar Peterson The Lost Tapes (MPS 529-096-1) featuring ten tracks recorded between 1965 and 1968 in the Black Forest villa of MPS Records owner and recording engineer Hans Georg Brunner-Schwer.

Audioengine's B2 Bluetooth Speaker Sweepstakes
Register to win an Audioengine B2 Bluetooth Speaker (MSRP $299) we are giving away.

Too Much Death
There's way too much death in the air lately. It's always there but it's coming now in Tsunami waves.

A Visit to VPI's New Showroom
On Sunday, March 22nd, VPI Industries hosted a meeting of the New Jersey Audiophile Society at its new showroom, which was formerly the home of VPI's founder Harry Weisfeld.

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