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Gizmodo Won't Post My Comment So I'm Posting It Here
Mario Aguilar, a Gizmodo blogger with a history degree and little if any meaningful audio listening experience, recently posted a story on that site titled "Don't Buy What Neil Young is Selling" in which he condemns Neil Young and his Pono player.
Bring Out Your Dead! Which Grateful Dead is Best?
Workingman's Dead and American Beauty have long been considered to be the two Grateful Dead albums for people who don't think they like the Grateful Dead.
"Deconstructed" Record Collection Now Online
The record collection documented in the story "Deconstructing a Record Collection" can now be viewed online in its entirety in catalog form.
Music Matters' Somethin' Else Is Somethin' Else!
While this much-loved Blue Note lists Adderley as the group leader, this pick-up session--recorded in 1958, just before Kind of Blue--sounds, for the most part, as if Miles Davis is in control and was labeled as an Adderley session due to contractual issues.
Audionet PAM G2 MM/MC Phono Preamplifier Available With Multitude of Options
The Audionet PAM G2 from Germany is a single input MM/MC phono preamplifier costing $10,100 but that's just for starters.
Hanss Acoustics T-60 Belt Drive Turntable
Hanss Acoustics' new T-60 belt drive turntable features sandwiched layers of machined Bakelite.
Jonathan Monks Shows You the New Keith Monks Discovery One Mini Record Cleaning Machine
Jonathan Monks gave me a "tour" of the new, limited edition Keith Monks Discovery One Mini record cleaning machine.
Mobile Fidelity's Kind of Blue Test Pressing Played at CES
One of the most long awaited reissues will soon come from Mobile Fidelity. Selected room visitors had a chance to listen to a test pressing of one mastering of the legendary Kind of Blue most likely sourced from Mark Wilder's 1997 mix to analog tape from the 3 track safety copy.
All Points Bulletin! Have You Seen This Turntable?
The photo shows Clearaudio's top of the line $170,000 Statement turntable.
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CES 2015 Show Report!
Michael Fremer uncovers every analog product at the show. And more!
Analogplanet.com's New Year's Message
2014 was a fantastic year for vinyl. 2015 looks to be an even better one. Analogplanet.com's editor Michael Fremer looks back on the year past and forward to next year on this "one take" video self-shot after a four day room-cleaning binge during which he discovered vinyl treasures hidden in plain sight.
My MTV Screen Test Circa 1990
At a garage sale over the summer I found a copy of Dennis Wilson's chronically under appreciated Pacific Ocean Blue (PZ 34354) album originally released on the CBS distributed Caribou label. I reviewed the Sundazed reissue on musicangle.com
Tour the Tesla Tube Factory
Back in 1999 I reviewed in Stereophile the KR Audio VT 8000 monoblock vacuum tube amplifier. I wrote in the review: "Virtually every part in the amplifier is custom-made in-house or sourced from associated facilities, including the metal fabrication, the transformers, and the circuit boards.
The Eagle Has Landed: Phoenix Engineering's High Power Digital Turntable PSU
Phoenix Engineering, manufacturer of the Falcon Digital Turntable PSU and Roadrunner Tachometer today announced the new High Power Eagle PSU designed to work with both VPI's higher powered motor equipped 'tables and those with dual motor/flywheels--as well as with any A.C. synchronous motor of 15 or fewer watts.
2015: The Year of the New Record Presses!
New record presses are the big news today. First: GZ Media yesterday announced that brand new presses will go online at the Czech-based company's pressing facility (the photo is not of a new press! We've not yet received photos).
A Hearing Aid For You From Doppler Labs
The term "hearing aid" strikes terror into the hearts of audiophiles of all ages. Glasses? OK. But "hearing aid"? No one wants to admit to needing one so that's why you need a set of DUBS Acoustic Filters now.
Beach Boys Reissues From Master Tapes to Ready to Ship
The Beach Boys reissue project from Analogue Productions has been years in the making. Some of the mono records go on sale this Friday, December 16th. The process from master tape to finished record, packaged, boxed and ready for shipping is shown in a series of videos that make their world debut here on analog planet.
Watch Michael Fremer "Roast" Chad Kassem at L.A. and Orange County Audiophile Society Gala
Chad Kassem was given the Los Angeles and Orange County Audiophile Society's Founders Award at the group's annual Gala on Sunday December 7th, 2014. President Bob Levi asked Chad who he most wanted to introduce him at the ceremony and he chose analogplanet.com editor, Michael Fremer (me).
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