AnalogPlanet Feb 2021

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Zenith Angle Correction: The Final Set-up Frontier!
Before getting to the image above, let's reiterate some cartridge set-up facts: despite the instructions that accompany most turntables and tone arms, you can't reliably set stylus rake angle to 92 degrees by putting your tone arm parallel to the record surface.

Pro-Ject Announces 5 New Analog Products
Pro-Ject just announced a pair of low cost MM/MC phono preamps and a pair of sophisticated "record cleaning arms" and in the press release re-launched the $1999 Phono Box RS2.

Blue Note Records Announces New 2021-2022 Tone Poet Reissue Series Schedule
Blue Note Records announces the 2021 Tone Poet Audiophile Reissue Series release schedule. Produced by Joe Harley, these are all-analog (where original recording was to analog tape), 180g audiophile vinyl reissues mastered by Kevin Gray at Cohearent Audio from the original master tapes.

The Nels Cline Singers Share the Wealth
The Nels Cline Singers doesn't have a singer. The free jazz ensemble doesn't even have a sewing machine. There you have it! Two! Two! Two jokes in one!

Charles Lloyd and The Marvels Deliver Tone Poem First New Release in "Tone Poet" Series
(Press release): Charles Lloyd & The Marvels have released "Ramblin'," a rollicking version of Ornette Coleman's tune which is the first single from the legendary saxophonist and NEA Jazz Master Charles Lloyd's forthcoming album Tone Poem out March 12 on Blue Note Records.

Ortofon Partners With PHONOCUT to Further Develop High Quality Home Vinyl RecordingAt Making Vinyl Hollywood, 2019 Austria-based PHONOCUT demonstrated a still in development all-analog based home vinyl cutting system that uses blank vinyl (not lacquer) discs. At 4:52 in the embedded video at the above link you can watch the compact system cut a record and learn more about it.

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