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AnalogPlanet Apr 2021

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2nd Edition

HIGH END Munich 2021 Postponed Until May 2022, Show Covid19 Victim
The HIGH END 2021 trade show, planned to take place in Munich from September 9 to 12, 2021, has now been moved to May 2022 due to the ongoing impact of the Covid-19 pandemic.

The Records You Didn't Know You Needed #4 Tell Mama Etta James (Cadet LPS 802
Etta James was in the heartbreak business. Other singers sold sweet dreams of love, romance, and sex, but Etta James sold pain and she had an endless supply. The pain started early. She never knew who her father was. When she was born, her mother who was fourteen, abandoned her, leaving her with a childless older couple.

Omnivore Reissues Two Van Duren Albums--Are You Serious? And Idiot Optimism
Here's one you might have missed along the way: an authentic, late-70s, unsung heavy-hitter of rock and roll medley in the Memphis vein of Big Star and Ardent studios.

Verve/UMe-Acoustic Sounds Series Launches Impulse! 60th Anniversary May 14th With Two Essential Titles, Announces More 2021 Impulse!/Verve Greats
Verve/UMe's Acoustic Sounds series celebrates Impulse!'s 60th anniversary, releasing May 14 two of the four titles that originally launched the iconic orange and black label.

68 Weird and Unusual Records In My Collection
The first AnalogPlanet video in months is an hour plus worth of weird and unusual records in the editor's large collection. What makes an album "weird" or "unusual"? A wide variety of possibilities as you'll see in this amusing and entertaining video in which the website's editor literally lets his hair down.

Fremer & Kassem 1/4: Founder's Circle
Filmmaker Ben Williams is posting on YouTube a series of videos he's shot at the Los Angeles and Orange County Audio Society (LAOCAS) December Galas over the past few years.

1st Edition

QHW Audio's Surprising "The Vinyl" MM/MC Phono Preamp
What's "surprising" about QHW Audio's "The Vinyl" phono preamplifier? More than a few things, starting with its Made In Spain origin. Perhaps I'm just ignorant but other than the highest tech WADAX brand of digital electronics, an older piece of which I reviewed for Stereophile, I'm not aware of a burgeoning Spanish audio manufacturing scene.

Hagerman Audio's "Tubey" But Quiet Trumpet MC Phono Preamplifier
Hagerman Audio Lab's 3rd generation fully balanced from input to output 3 pound Trumpet MC combines a differential JFET input front-end with a more conventional 6 dual-triode vacuum tube (4X 12AX7, 2X 12AU7) gain/ phase-splitter/driver/output (if I misread the schematic, which is possible, Hagerman will correct me!).

Joni Mitchell First Four LP Box June 25th From Rhino Celebrates Blue 's 50th Anniversary
Rhino releases on June 25th a box set containing re-mastered versions of Joni Mitchell's first four Reprise albums (1968-71). The date is the 3 days after the 50th anniversary of the original release of Blue, which many fans consider a pivotal album in her recording career and one of the most thoughtful musical expressions of love lost ever.

Rich Rhino RSD 2021 Releases!
Rhino Announces its Record Store Day Offerings For June 12th and July 17th

Ortofon's 2M Black LVB 250 Cartridge Delivers Smooth, Sweet and Well-Detailed Sound
When readers ask why "they" no longer manufacture a really high quality moving magnet cartridge, I respond "Ortofon 2M Black" ($695). Its nude Shibata stylus delivers great detail, it's an effective tracker at 1.5 grams and it outputs a generous 5mVs.

Is Audio Intelligent's Enzymatic Stylus Cleaning Fluid Safe For Your Ortofon Bonded Stylus?
Audio Intelligent's recently introduced AIVS Enzymatic Stylus Cleaning Formula is an enzymatic stylus cleaning solution that's alcohol-free and claimed to be 100% safe for bonded type styli like Ortofon's.

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