2nd Edition
Tony's Woodshop Record Racks Reviewed
After receiving a tip and covering the modular, stackable and reasonably priced record storage racks from Tony's Woodshop I bit and bought a dozen. I opted for finished oak costing $55 each including shipping. These are being used in my utility room so I didn't opt for a base unit, even though that meant the lowest unit wouldn't provide full bottom record support.
The Fluance RT81 High Fidelity Vinyl Turntable Record Player
Canada-based Fluance is an eighteen year old loudspeaker manufacturer specializing in home theater systems. The company's speakers have a luxurious look that belies their reasonable prices. I've not heard any of them but the reviews are positive in sister publications Sound & Vision and Innerfidelity.
How to Read Between the Lines In High-End Audio Advertising
The Rocky Mountain Audio Festival recently posted to YouTube this video of a panel discussion in which analogPlanet editor Michael Fremer participated. Check it out. (I swear YouTube not I chose that close up of me!)
The Berlin Philharmonic's Direct-To-Disc Brahms Symphonic Cycle Conducted By Sir Simon Rattle
The just released (November 18, 2016) six LP box set of the four Brahms symphonies recorded direct-to-disc performed by Sir Simon Rattle and The Berlin Philharmonic before a live Philharmonie audience is as meticulously produced and presented as its existence is unlikely.
Digging Into the Liturgy of the Phonograph's First Eleven Years
We make a seasonal exception to our vinyl-only review policy and publish Tristram Lozaw's review of the double Grammy Nominated (Best Historical Album and Best Album Notes) three CD plus harcover book set Waxing the Gospel: Mass Evangelism and the Phonograph, 1890-1900.
Furnace Record Pressing Tests One of Ten Rebuilt Toolex Presses Soon to Go "Live"!
Do you need to see more pressing plants go online to be convinced that the vinyl resurgence is surging? How about this: Furnace Record Pressing in Fairfax Virginia will soon go "live" with ten fully rebuilt Toolex Alpha presses.
The Origin of The Rarest and Most Sought After Pressing of "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band"
AnalogPlanet reader Bill Wright interviews Australian mastering engineer Don Bartley, who cut lacquers back in 1983 for what many consider to be the best sounding and certainly the rarest pressing of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, produced by EMI Australia for the 1983 Sydney Audio Show. Fewer than five hundred copies were pressed.
New Line of Record Care Accessories From Vinyl Styl
The Vinyl Styl line of record care accessories distributed by Alliance is a throwback to the days when you'd find many of these items at the check-out counter of your favorite record store.
1st Edition
ELAC's Debut B5 Loudspeaker Is Not Good For the Money
This speaker plays louder and without audible compression than any $229.99 speaker has any right to play. It goes deeper, (or sounds as if it does) and without muddying up the midrange, than any speaker of this size has any right to go. And it does this without producing the typical upper midrange resolution and/or tonal neutrality destroying "bump".
Allsop Brings Back the Orbitrac
We started lobbying Allsop to bring back the Orbitrac almost as soon as its demise was announced. We got no response so started a campaign on musicangle.com to no avail.
"A Capitol Christmas" Double LP From the Vaults Worth Owning
Producer/annotator Jay Landers has pulled from Capitol's rich vaults some of the label's best Christmas music that the label has issued as a double LP set complete with excellent liner notes (they are back.)
2007 Never Before Released Jazz Album Made For These Times
According to the liner notes for this record that's guaranteed to knock you out in a good way, both musically and sonically, the aggregate known as "The CO-OP" began as an "ad-hoc" backing band for the Swedish singer-songwriter Malin Johansson, A/KA Blue Utopia.
Angel Olsen's "My Woman" Is Her
Angel Olsen's third album reminds me of Elvis Costello's first even though she's mostly vulnerable whereas Costello was angry and snarly. The similarity is in how both make fresh older rock conventions like power cords and '50s era rhythms.
A Day In the Life Of Vinyl
What a day. It actually started yesterday when I exited an airplane and entered the Newark International Airport terminal and spotted a record store! Yes, there's a record store in Terminal C. It's part of a CBGB "franchise" location with a restaurant, a rock memorabilia store and a record store.
Legendary Recording Engineer Roy Halee Talks About the Making of Paul Simon's "Stranger To Stranger" Album
Stranger to Stranger Paul Simon's most recent record and his finest in years, both musically and sonically had him reuniting with his original producer Roy Halee. The two hadn't worked together for many years.
Unboxing David Bowie's "Who Can I Be Now?" Box Set
The second David Bowie box set covers but two years--1974-1976--but for David Bowie that timespan leaped across a few musical universes. Bowie had shed Ziggy and for an album became a lad insane.
Newvelle Records Completes First Year and Funds Second
The subscription-based, vinyl-only record label Newvelle Records is an audacious project on many levels--a "closed loop" system wherein jazz enthusiasts pay an annual "membership fee" of $425 and receive six Newvelle-produced records--all performed by mostly familiar "world class" artists-- over the course of the year.
Shinola Launches New Runwell Turntable
Last Monday, November 21st, AnalogPlanet editor Michael Fremer along with a few other journalists visited Shinola headquarters in Detroit. Project head Alex Rosson (Audeze headphone company co-founder) conducted the tour where we watched the new Rumwell turntable being built within the company's main retail store, where it also assembles bicycles.
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