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Can These Records Be Saved?
Record Cleaning Tips
Michael Fremer • Apr 23, 2013 • 35 comments
An Analogplanet.com reader "lost" much of his collection due to water damage.
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Record Store Day April 20th 2013
News
Michael Fremer • Apr 22, 2013 • 54 comments
The line snaked down the block outside of Music Merchant in Westwood, NJ the morning of Record Store Day April 20th 2013. It was 7:30 AM well before I got there, you can be sure. Others told me about the scene, including the store's owner.

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Sinatra Swings Because He Can
Album Reviews
Michael Fremer • Apr 22, 2013 • 10 comments
Frank Sinatra recorded this album for Capitol in the summer of 1960—the same year he left the label and with a few hundred thousand dollars of his own money started Reprise Records. You can be sure plans for the new label were well underway during the production of this thirty three minutes and change long album.

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Oops! Missed One: Bob's Devices Step Up Transformer for VPI 'Tables
NY Audio Show 2013
Stephen Mejias • Apr 19, 2013 • 0 comments
Photo by Ariel Bitran

I missed this one. Thanks to Stereophile's Stephen Mejias for kindly allowing it to be reprinted here-ed.

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New York Audio Show Wrap Up
NY Audio Show 2013
Michael Fremer • Apr 17, 2013 • 4 comments
So how was the show? Last year's show was pretty awful. This year's show was very good for many reasons. Just look at the smile on the face of Acoustic Sounds' Chad Kassem.
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My New York Audio Show
NY Audio Show 2013
Michael Fremer • Apr 17, 2013 • 5 comments
It was a hectic show for me. I had agreed to do two events each Friday and Saturday in conjunction with Colleen Murphy's Classic Album Sundays in a room featuring a Spiral Groove SG 1.1 turntable and Centroid arm, VTL Reference electronics including a pair of big Siegfried mono blocks and a pair of Wilson Audio Specialties MAXX 3 loudspeakers.

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Best Sound at the New York Audio Show?
NY Audio Show 2013
Michael Fremer • Apr 17, 2013 • 0 comments
Best sound at the show? It wasn't close and it wasn't fair. The best sound was, without a doubt, in the MBL room where MBL importer Jeremy Bryan demonstrated why he's among the best and most meticulous/fanatical set-up guys in the business.

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Not Your Father's VPI Turntable! (Unless You're Matt Weisfeld)
NY Audio Show 2013
Michael Fremer • Apr 17, 2013 • 1 comments
The new VPI direct drive turntable prototype and 3D printed JMW Memorial tonearm made their debuts at the New York Audio Show.

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Coincident Statement Phono Preamplifier Looks as Good as It Sounded
NY Audio Show 2013
Michael Fremer • Apr 17, 2013 • 0 comments
Does this look like a $5995 phono preamplifier? It looks far more costly to me. Canadian manufacturer Coincident Technology sells this new two-box tube-based phono preamp direct to consumers for $5995.
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Trinity Electronic Design Phono Preamplifier Reaches For Perfection, Hits Exalted Price Point
NY Audio Show 2013
Michael Fremer • Apr 17, 2013 • 0 comments
This modestly sized, unassuming looking little jewel was in use in the Audio Arts room, fed by a Jan Aalerts cartridge mounted in the Simon Yorke S-10.

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