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Analog Corner
Analog Corner #101
Michael Fremer  |  Nov 12, 2018  |  First Published: Dec 01, 2003  |  10 comments
Like the LP itself, the dream of a turntable that could read grooves with a laser beam would not die. The Finial Technology laser turntable has been resurrected as the ELP Laser Turntable by the ELP Corporation of Japan. ELP is headed by Sanju Chiba, an analog true believer and ELP, which has been building and selling the Laser Turntable since 1997, recently announced three LT models with improved sonic performance and user interfaces, including CD-like programmability and remote control.
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Poland 2018
Audio Video Show 2018 Warsaw Poland Day 2
Michael Fremer  |  Nov 20, 2018  |  First Published: Nov 20, 2018  |  7 comments
Walk through the Campanile Golden Tulip and Radisson Sobieski Hotel exhibits at Audio Video Show 2018 Warsaw with AnalogPlanet editor Michael Fremer.

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News
Ry Cooder & Manuel Galbán's "Mambo Sinuendo" Again "In-Print" on Vinyl
Michael Fremer  |  Nov 23, 2018  |  First Published: Nov 23, 2018  |  9 comments
Winner of the 2003 Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Album, this sublime collaboration with Cuban guitar great Manuel Galbán was issued on vinyl for a blink of the eye and was quickly out of print. Now it's again available on vinyl.
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Poland 2018
Audio Video Show Warsaw, Day 3
Michael Fremer  |  Nov 25, 2018  |  First Published: Nov 25, 2018  |  10 comments
Here's the third and final video shot at Audio Video Show 2018, Warsaw, Poland that concluded November, 18th. Almost all of this footage was from the PGE Narodowy football (soccer) stadium exhibits (Thumbnail is radio interview conducted at the stadium, show organizer Adam Mokrzycki on right).

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Analog Corner
Analog Corner #102
Michael Fremer  |  Nov 26, 2018  |  First Published: Jan 01, 2004  |  15 comments
Sumiko's Blackbird phono cartridge

Bose ran a full-page ad for its Wave radio a few weeks ago in the New York Times. The headline was "Proof That Great Ideas Get Heard." The company patted itself on the back for winning a technology award for the radio from "Forbes ASAP." The award cites the Wave as being one of 15 "world-changing" technological breakthroughs, on an equal footing with Bell's telephone, Edison's light bulb, and the invention of the CD.

When I read that, my morning coffee went up my nose and back into the cup.

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News
Blue Note Records Announces "Spirit & Time" Blue Note Review Volume Two
Michael Fremer  |  Nov 26, 2018  |  First Published: Nov 26, 2018  |  2 comments
The Blue Note Review subscription box set series returns with "customer feedback" based improved Volume Two. You'll like both what's in the box and what the label has done to improve its overall quality. Plus it will be easier to obtain than was the first set, limited to 1500 copies. Volume Two will be a 2000 set edition.

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Analog Gear NewsNews
SME Importer Bluebird Music Reduces Prices on All SME Turntables and Tonearms
Michael Fremer  |  Nov 26, 2018  |  First Published: Nov 26, 2018  |  8 comments
North American SME importer Bluebird Music recently announced "significant" across the board price reductions on all SME products, effective November 23, 2018.

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Analog Gear News
Soundsmith Revamps Cartridge Lineup With New ES Series
Michael Fremer  |  Nov 26, 2018  |  First Published: Nov 26, 2018  |  2 comments
Peekskill New York based Soundsmith launched at last October's RMAF a new ES line of moving cartridges that includes ES versions of their Otello, The Voice, Aida, Carmen MKII, Zephyr MKIII, Zephyr MIMIC, Hyperion, Paua MKII, and Sussuro MKII.

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Album Reviews
On “Birdcage” Sophia Pfister Bares More Than Her Soul
Michael Fremer  |  Nov 27, 2018  |  18 comments
To help pay for her self-funded debut EP Sophia Pfister worked in a mortuary. Now, two years later, she’s released her first LP—also self-funded. Since that first effort she’s expanded her web presence on her own website as well as on most social media platforms and streaming services. Most importantly, she’s steadily gigged, performing live around the Los Angeles area.

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News
"Electric Ladyland" Box Set Panic! Calm Down, Please!
Michael Fremer  |  Nov 28, 2018  |  First Published: Nov 28, 2018  |  59 comments
During last fall's "Blues Masters at the Crossroads" concert weekend at Chad Kassem's Blue Heaven studios, attendees were invited to tour Quality Record Pressings where workers were busy assembling the just-released Electric Ladyland box set containing a Bernie Grundman all-analog remastering from the original analog tapes of the double LP set, a double LP of early takes, a double LP of Jimi Hendrix Experience Live at the Hollywood Bowl, a Blu-ray disc containing a 96/24 high resolution version of the original double LP, a 5.1 channel Eddie Kramer mix at 96/24 resolution and an expanded documentary including interviews with the late Chas Chandler, Mitch Mitchell and Noel Redding and in-the-studio footage. There's also a full-sized 46 page booklet in the box. I'm working my way through the box for a review.

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