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"You Say Turntable Sales Are Up....There Are No Statistics To Back This Up" (Corrected 3/2/15)
Michael Fremer  |  Feb 24, 2015  |  13 comments
It was twenty years ago, but not today. Close enough though. I was rummaging through some old files when I came upon a letter I'd received from Gary Shapiro, who is now President and CEO of the Consumer Electronics Association, the group that among other things, runs the annual International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.

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Gizmodo Won't Post My Comment So I'm Posting It Here
Michael Fremer  |  Jan 24, 2015  |  192 comments
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.

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My MTV Screen Test Circa 1990
Michael Fremer  |  Dec 29, 2014  |  22 comments
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

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"The Digital Disaster", Music Connection, October Mid 1980's
Michael Fremer  |  Nov 10, 2014  |  35 comments
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Cartoon of The Day
Michael Fremer  |  Nov 10, 2014  |  6 comments
Cartoon of the Day
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A "Visit" to Dr. Mark Waldrep's Website "Real HD-audio.com"
Michael Fremer  |  Oct 24, 2014  |  8 comments
A recent comment posted under the story "Anonymous Mastering Engineer's Take on The Beatles MONO Box Set" prompted me to check out a recent post by AIX's Dr. Mark Waldrep on his site real HD Audio. I've appropriated the site's logo without permission but I can't imagine he'd object to the publicity and if he does I will take it down.

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Phono Equalization B.S. Continues!
Michael Fremer  |  Oct 04, 2014  |  22 comments
A recently posted review of a phono preamp on a website that is not deserving of mention here once again makes the specious claim that curves other than the RIAA were used in the mastering of stereo records. This is simply not true.

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Sony Launched SACD Fifteen Years Ago Aiming "Small"
Michael Fremer  |  Mar 18, 2014  |  10 comments
Originally written for Stereophile and handed in September, 1999 I recently found this story in a "dusty file" on my computer and thought it worth sharing.—Ed

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All Violins Sound the Same
Michael Fremer  |  Feb 06, 2014  |  15 comments
I posted a comment under the story:

"3 arrested after theft of $5M Stradivarius violin"

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"I'm Appalled at the Way You Treat Your Readership"
Michael Fremer  |  Jan 29, 2014  |  57 comments
Rabbi Fremer says: The Peter, Paul & Mary file comparison story has created quite an uproar. Most of you took it for what it was—an informal but reasonable comparison of two unidentified files that could have been the same or different. 79% of you thought they were different files. 21% though they were the same file posted twice.

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Why I Hate The Felice Brothers' Cover of "This Magic Moment" in the Dell TV Commercial
Michael Fremer  |  Jan 26, 2014  |  38 comments
Even if you are an infrequent TV viewer, chances are you've seen the Dell commercial that uses as a music bed a cover of the great Doc Pomus/Mort Shuman song "This Magic Moment" originally performed by Ben E. King and The Drifters and later covered by Jay and The Americans among others. The only ads running more frequently are the ones that say "your erectile dysfunction is a matter of blood flow".
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"Geek Squad" Road-Rage Madness!
Michael Fremer  |  Jan 17, 2014  |  49 comments
So I'm driving back from Washington D.C. where I'd gone to install an Etna cartridge in an AMG Viella turntable for a friend. His politics are 180 degrees diametrically opposed to mine. In fact, he's a consultant to "those people". But you know what? Politics stops for me at the lead-in groove.

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The Worst Print Ad Ever Created? (Not the One Pictured Below This Headline)
Michael Fremer  |  Dec 15, 2013  |  44 comments
Look at this print ad for the Manila Hi-Fi Show I recently attended. It is a model of clarity, good taste and communicates effectively the event. Do you agree?
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AKC Sponsored Meet the Breeds Event (I Promise an Audiophile/Music Related Payoff At the End)
Michael Fremer  |  Sep 30, 2013  |  16 comments
Over this past weekend September 29th and 30th The American Kennel Club hosted its annual "Meet the Breed" event at New York City's Jacob javits Convention Center. This post is definitely not "on subject"! Well it partly is.
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Numerogroup's Rob Sevier Shows Analogplanet "The Dark Side"
Michael Fremer  |  Jun 18, 2013  |  14 comments
Yes, I apologized for my over the top reaction to Rob Sevier's The Wire story. Had you told me after I'd read it that he and his partner ran a vinyl record label, you could have knocked me over with an MP3.

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