Michael Fremer

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Munich 2014
Swedish Analog Technologies SAT Tonearm Ready For Third Quarter 2014 Launch
Michael Fremer  |  Jun 10, 2014  |  First Published: Jun 10, 2014  |  4 comments
This massive arm of a special carbon fiber laminate from Swedish Analog Technologies appears to take its general inspiration from SME’s Model V but uses brass and composite materials as well as a more traditional mounting system.
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News
Swedish Band's Limited Edition Promo Single Made of Ice!
Michael Fremer  |  Jan 02, 2013  |  14 comments
The Swedish Band The Shout Out Louds released a limited edition of 10 copies of a promo single in a kit that requires the receiver to use a supplied latex mold to produce a record made of ice that actually plays
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AXPONA 2016
Sweet Vinyl’s Dan Eakins Demonstrates the Sugarcube™ Hi-Res All-in-One Vinyl Digital Recording Platform
Michael Fremer  |  Apr 18, 2016  |  First Published: Apr 18, 2016  |  4 comments
At CES 2016 Sweet Vinyl’s Leo Hoarty demoed a Sugarcube™ prototype that incorporated a built-in phono preamplifier. The revised edition introduced at AXPONA 2016 does not.

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Sweet Vinyl’s SugarCube SC-1 Real Time Pop and Click Remover—Any Good?
Michael Fremer  |  Apr 09, 2018  |  First Published: Apr 09, 2018  |  60 comments
About a dozen years ago at a used record store in San Francisco I bought a “mint” original German pressing of The Beatles (“The White Album”). It was up on the store wall at $75.00. The laminated “top loader” jacket was mint, all of the head shots the poster and the black sleeves were inside looking as if none of it had been touched and the records appeared as minty as advertised.

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RMAF 2016
SweetVinyl Launches SugarCube SC-1 Pop and Tick Remover
Michael Fremer  |  Oct 10, 2016  |  First Published: Oct 10, 2016  |  6 comments
AnalogPlanet has been covering SweetVinyl's development of its SugarCube SC-2 vinyl recording platform, an easy to use vinyl to high resolution digital recorder that, among other things, pulls album art off the internet and automatically separates album tracks.

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CES 2017
SweetVinyl SC - 1 and SC - 2 Up And Running At C.E.S. 2017 
Michael Fremer  |  Jan 11, 2017  |  First Published: Jan 11, 2017  |  27 comments
AnalogPlanet has covered the design and development of these two unique products since they were in the breadboard stages. The are finally ready for production and sale.

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SweetVinyl's Brand New Product Category For Vinyl Lovers Explained
Michael Fremer  |  Jan 08, 2016  |  First Published: Jan 08, 2016  |  17 comments
The Sugarcube from Musical Surroundings, shown at CES 2016 in prototypical form represents a brand new product category in the vinyl world according to SweetVinyl's Leo Hoarty and he's not spewing hyperbole.

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CES 2013
Swiss Turntable and Arm Shown With Cartridge That Costs About the Same
Michael Fremer  |  Jan 11, 2013  |  0 comments
Swiss-made Holborne Analog 2 Mk II turntable ($7495) and Dual Pivot tonearm ($3475) adds up to $10,970, which is slightly less than the $11,200 cost of the Van den hul Colibri cartridge mounted on the tonearm.
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Munich 2015
Swiss-Built CH Precision Phono Preamp Includes Oscilloscope
Michael Fremer  |  May 23, 2015  |  First Published: May 23, 2015  |  1 comments
The CH phono preamplifier includes three inputs, two of which are current mode MC and one of which has a conventional voltage gain-based architecture that be used in either MM or MC mode.

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NY Audio Show 2013
Symbol Shows "Don Draper Object of Desire" Modern Record Console
Michael Fremer  |  Apr 15, 2013  |  5 comments
Symbol Audio displayed and demoed at the New York Audio Show it's ultra- cool '50s retro all-in-one Modern Record Console—an homage to the '50s era consoles manufactured by companies like Churchill that incorporated high quality components from companies like Fisher, Scott, Harman Kardon into stylish wood cabinets.

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