2nd Edition
NAIM Back In The Turntable Tonearm Game
Naim Audio launches first-ever turntable plus next-generation Aro tonearm as part of complete Solstice Special Edition package - limited to 500 units.
Rhino Delivers a Worthy Reissue of Pantera's Vulgar Display of Power
You don't hear much about the band Pantera in either the audiophile or even in the vinyl community. Its music and lyrics come across as brash, and thrash metal definitely isn't the first genre that comes to mind when thinking of records to show off the sonic capabilities of one's stereo equipment.
George Harrison's All Things Must Pass Gets the 50th Anniversary Reissue Treatment August 6th
How would you like your All Things Must Pass?. Of course there's the original 3 LP set produced by George Harrison (who died in 2001 at age 58) and Phil Spector, which if you have on an original British Apple pressing sounds very good. The American pressing? Meh.
"Feel Flow" - The Sunflower & Surf's Up Sessions 1969-1971," Box Due July 30
Capitol/UMe will release an expansive 5CD and digital box set titled "Feel Flows - The Sunflower and Surf's Up Sessions 1969-1971" on July 30.
Impex Announces multi-Format Release of Patricia Barber's Clique
Thursday, June 10th: Impex Records today announced the multi-format release of Patricia Barber's new album Clique. It will be available as both 33 1/3 and 45rpm LPs, an "Ultra High Definition Permanent Download (stereo and 5.1), High Definition Streaming, MQA CD, SACD (stereo and 5.1) and Reel to Reel analog tape.
Triple SCAATY I.D. Reveal!
AnalogPlanet readers chose their favorite from among three short digitized excerpts from Paul Simon's album Still Crazy After All These Years. One was an original pressing, the second a Record Store Day release and the third, Mobile Fidelity's "One-Step" 45rpm extravaganza.
1st Edition
This Movie May Bore You "Tho" If you Collect Reel to Reel Tapes, Prolly Not!
A few weeks ago I visited a woman in Portland, OR whose husband ran tape duplication services for GRT Records (GRT owned the Chess catalog in the early 70s and provided tape duplication services for many labels).
Mo-Fi Does the "One Step" With Paul Simon's Still Crazy After All These Years
Seven years ago (2014) Sony/Legacy reissued for Record Store Day a swell version of Paul Simon's Still Crazy After All These Years, mastered by Ryan K. Smith at Sterling Sound and pressed at RTI. It was positively reviewed on this site.
Meet Jordan Kurland-- Brilliant Corners Artist Management Founding Partner And Record Collector
I first met Brilliant Corners Artist Management Founding Partner Jordan Kurland back in 2017 at my friend David Hyman's former home Northern California, holding in his hands a new Transfiguration Axia cartridge.
Andrew Hill's Passing Ships Sure to Please, Both Musically and Sonically
Some people collect Tone Poet Blue Note reissues the way some people amass baseball cards. I know more than a few Tone Poet enthusiasts who, after buying one, had a Bert Lahr Lay's potato chip moment and couldn't stop buying them--at least until they encountered the late pianist/composer/arranger Andrew Hill's Blue Note debut Black Fire (ST-84151/B0029975-01).
A Useful Overhang Gauge With Some "Ifs" Attached
Someone on one of the Facebook turntable groups asked what "overhang" was. None of the answers that I read properly defined it, (though a few talked about the head shell slots being involved) and I've forbidden myself from ever again participating on any of those groups after being called a "liar and a bullshit artist" in response to one innocent comment I made and "an industry puppet" following another.
Out of the Cool is a Verve/Acoustic Sounds Series "Must Have"
"La Nevada" means "snowfall" but the opening track of this Gil Evans classic begins as a musical desert mirage of a distant train that approaches slowly, with you sitting on the tracks directly in its path.
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