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Tour Bernie Grundman Mastering and Hear Bernie on the High Resolution Blue Note Transfers
While in Los Angeles recently I had visited Chris Bellman and Bernie Grundman at Bernie Grundman mastering. Take a video tour of the famed Gower Avenue, Hollywood mastering facility.
Still Crazy After All These Years Is the Simon Album RSD Reissue To Buy
Last Record Store Day Sony/Legacy reissued three Paul Simon albums: his eponymous solo debut (not counting 1965's U.K.-issued Paul Simon Songbook), There Goes Rhymin' Simon and this record.
VPI Demos Nomad Headphone-Centric Turntable at SoundstageDirect.com Headquarters
VPI demoed its new Nomad headphone-based turntable last Saturday, March 22nd at the Doylestown, PA headquarters of online vendor Soundstagedirect.com. On hand were the Soundstagedirect folks of course, including company numero uno Seth Franks as well as VPI president Matt Weisfeld and a crew too humorous to mention.
ECM Has Issued This Month Seven Classic Titles on Vinyl Cut From Analog Master Tapes
ECM recently announced the reissue on 180g vinyl of seven adventurous titles from the label's vast catalog. These LPs have been cut using the original analog master tapes, according to ECM.
Blue Note President Don Was Talks About His Blue Note Vinyl Reissue Project
On Wednesday March 12th Blue Note President Don Was sat down with me to talk about the Blue Note vinyl reissues he's producing for the label. He's a music executive who is also an acclaimed musician and producer.
Why Analogplanet is Not Covering Pono
We like the idea of Pono and of course we love Neil. We like HDTracks too as well as Super HiRez. Better sound is good for all. However, this site will stick to analog with but a few minor incursions into digital where warranted.
Neil Young Live at the Cellar Door Gets You As Close to Neil As You're Likely to Get
Recorded during a six show stint at tiny Cellar Door, a circa 100 seat Washington D.C. basement club November 30th through December 2nd, 1970, this 13 song collection recorded by the great Henry Lewy (thanked in the credits even though he passed away in 2006) presents Neil Young as intimately and as powerfully as you'll hear him on record.
Sony Launched SACD Fifteen Years Ago Aiming "Small"
Originally written for Stereophile and handed in September, 1999 I recently found this story in a "dusty file" on my computer and thought it worth sharing.--Ed
Amoeba Music, Hollywood: Take the Short Walking Tour
Permission granted to take a short walk through parts of Amoeba Music in Hollywood with the GoPro camera on my head (sorry it wasn't positioned lower down). This was in between two appointments so I really didn't have an opportunity to walk all the way through the jazz, folk or world music vinyl sections.
Getting the Lowdown on Blue Note's Vinyl Reissue Series
Upon landing at LAX I got in the rental car and drove directly to Capitol Records where I met up with the great Al Schmitt. Al took a short time away from an all analog mixing session for an upcoming album of standards that when you find out the artist, will make the one he did with Paul McCartney seem matter of fact.
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Getting the Lowdown on Blue Note's Vinyl Reissue Series
Upon landing at LAX I got in the rental car and drove directly to Capitol Records where I met up with the great Al Schmitt. Al took a short time away from an all analog mixing session for an upcoming album of standards that when you find out the artist, will make the one he did with Paul McCartney seem matter of fact.
Wendy Carlos's TRON Soundtrack Coming As Double 180g Vinyl LP From Audio Fidelity
Marshall Blonstein's Audio Fidelity Records today inked the deal with The Walt Disney Corporation to release Wendy Carlos's groundbreaking original soundtrack to the 1982 Disney feature "TRON".
Stop the Nonsense! Bob Ludwig On The True Numbers Behind Beck's Morning Phase Album
Here's Bob Ludwig's statement regarding the engineering and mastering of Beck's new album Morning Phase...
Beck's Morning Phase Awakes Gently Then Puts You in A Dreamy State
The opening wash of gorgeously recorded massed strings might just paralyze you. "Who arranged those? " you might say to yourself but before you could scour the liner notes you hear familiar Sea Change-like guitar strums and you melt.
U-Turn’s Remarkable $179 Orbit Turntable is A Crosley Killer!
Investors in U-Turn’s Kickstarter-funded Orbit turntable get more than their money’s worth in this remarkably well-designed record player manufactured in Woburn, Massachusetts.
Lyn Stanley Recording March 4, 2014 At Avatar Studios in NYC With Legendary Recording Engineer Al Schmitt
Chanteuse extraordinaire Lyn Stanley was at New York's Avatar Studios (formerly The Power Station) recording songs for her next album Potions, which will consist of '50s era covers.
Audio Additives Digital Stylus Force Gauge
Looking for a good digital stylus force gauge? Once upon a time, one from Winds cost $800 and was good only to a single decimal point. Today they can be had good to 3 decimal points for as little as $79 like this Audio Additive by Musicdirect.
Los Lobos's Kiko Makes Its 180g Vinyl Debut
Nothing Los Lobos recorded previous to 1992’s Kiko could have prepared anyone for this piece of sustained, surreal brilliance.
LKV Research Phono 2-SB MM/MC Phono Preamplifier: Affordable Excellence
Made in the White Mountains of New Hampshire USA, using where possible American parts, designer Bill Hutchins’ LKV Research Phono 2-SB has the kind of Japanese corporate name that doesn’t exactly roll off the tongue.
Blue Note Announces 100 Classic Jazz Titles on 180 Gram Vinyl
To celebrate the 75th anniversary of Blue Note Records, the label will be reissuing in 2014 100 classic Blue Notes on 180 gram vinyl beginning with five on March 25th: Art Blakey's Free For All, Coltrane's Blue Train, Eric Dolphy's Out to Lunch, Wayne Shorter's Speak No Evil and Larry Young's Unity.
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