AnalogPlanet June 2013

1st Edition

Stereophile Recommended Components iPad App Now Available for Free Download
Stereophile is pleased to announce the availability of the new and improved free 2013 Recommended Components iPad app. The app is available right now for free download to your iPad in the iTunes store. In iTunes, search for "Stereophile Recommended Components" or follow this link to the iTunes store from your web browser.

T.H.E. Show Newport Beach 2013 Show Reports
Michael Fremer locates analog goodies and demystifies the turntable.

The Stupidest Article Ever Written About Vinyl (by two guys running a vinyl label) !
Please read the stupidest article ever written about the vinyl resurgence published online by The Wire. Two shmendricks, Rob Sevier and Ken Shipley attempt to compare the vinyl resurgence to baseball cards. Worse, the Wire's editor, clearly a bigger shmendrick introduces the article thusly...

Elvis Back Up Tapes Astonish
When first released by RCA as a single LP back in 1988 (RCA 9589-1-R) this album, probably sourced then from digital, created a sensation--at least among the legions of Elvis Presley fans.

The New York Times Reports on The Vinyl Resurgence
The Arts section of today's New York Times contains a vinyl resurgence story by Allan Kozzin you're sure to enjoy reading: Weaned on CDs, They’re Reaching for Vinyl.

A Subscription Based Vinyl Service From Feedbands
A reader alerted me to "Feedbands"--a unique vinyl subscription service. You pay them $19.95 a month and each month Feedbands sends you a new 180g vinyl record of a new band or artist they really like.

Analogplanet Interviews Record Industry Pressing Plant Owner Ton Vermeulen
Before touring the Record Industry pressing plant Analogplanet's Michael Fremer sat down with Ton Vermeulen to get the factory's history and a figurative finger on the pulse of a man who would buy a record pressing plant as the vinyl record lay on its supposed death bed.

Analogplanet Visits London's Electric Mastering
After the Munich High End Show I went to the U.K. on some other business and while there paid a visit to Electric Mastering, the parent company of reissue label The Electric Recording Co. You can read about the company and its reissue of Johanna Martzy's legendary 3 LP EMI set of the Bach Unaccompanied Violin Sonatas.

Munich 2013 Show Report
Michael Fremer reports live from Germany with text, photos and video!

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