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M2tech Joplin A/D Converter Gets Mk2 Update (Revised 4/9/2015)
Michael Fremer  |  Apr 07, 2015  |  5 comments
The M2tech Joplin, one of the A/D converters profiled in the recent A/D converter "shoot out" has had a "make over".

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Legendary Mastering Engineer Doug Sax Has Passed Away
Michael Fremer  |  Apr 02, 2015  |  27 comments
It is with much sadness that I inform you that Doug Sax, the great mastering engineer, direct-to-disc pioneer, co-founder of Sheffield Labs, founder of The Mastering Lab and of course a truly wonderful and pleasingly cantankerous person, passed away the morning of April 2nd. He would have been 79 on April 26th.

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A Visit to VPI's New Showroom
Michael Fremer  |  Mar 24, 2015  |  17 comments
On Sunday, March 22nd, VPI Industries hosted a meeting of the New Jersey Audiophile Society at its new showroom, which was formerly the home of VPI's founder Harry Weisfeld.

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"Garage Sale" Find Has QRP Adding 13 Additional Record Presses! (Now Video Enhanced)
Michael Fremer  |  Mar 02, 2015  |  57 comments
Quality Record Pressing (QRP) announced today that thirteen additional presses will soon go online at its Salina, Kansas facility after discovering them recently lying dormant in a Chicago warehouse.

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Mark Knopler Cuts a New Song to Analog Tape
Michael Fremer  |  Feb 20, 2015  |  36 comments
A reader forwarded a new video showing Mark Knopfler, who had recorded his share of albums digitally, back in the studio recording to analog tape using tube compressors to achieve the desired sound based on sound not necessarily the latest technology.
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Roxy Music Box Set Coming March 16th From Universal
Michael Fremer  |  Feb 12, 2015  |  77 comments
Roxy Music, the art-rock band that spawned the music careers of lead singer Bryan Ferry and producer, music experimenter (and who knows how to adequately describe him) Brian Eno will get the full and well deserved box set treatment from UMe.

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Ultrasonicrecords Adds Dryer Cube to Compliment V-8 Cleaning Machine
Michael Fremer  |  Feb 03, 2015  |  41 comments
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GZ Media Takes Its Latest "Fashion Statement" Down the Runway!
Michael Fremer  |  Feb 03, 2015  |  18 comments
When we announced last year that Czech Republic based GZ Media was pu
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Neil Young: Vinyl Resurgence is "nothing but a fashion statement"
Michael Fremer  |  Feb 03, 2015  |  119 comments
According to U.K. music paper NME, Neil Young claimed during a recent interview on Frame, a California radio show, that vinyl is "nothing but a fashion statement."

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Hand to Hand Combat!
Michael Fremer  |  Feb 02, 2015  |  28 comments
I got into it in the discussion section of a ridiculous Rolling Stone story. Why did I waste my time doing so? Because this is hand-to-hand combat folks! Get your hands dirty!

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"Deconstructed" Record Collection Now Online
Michael Fremer  |  Jan 23, 2015  |  18 comments

The record collection documented in the story "Deconstructing a Record Collection" can now be viewed online in its entirety in catalog form.

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Analogue Productions Releases First Wave of Beach Boys Albums
Michael Fremer  |  Jan 22, 2015  |  2 comments
Analogue Productions has released its first wave of mono and stereo Beach Boys albums.

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Analogplanet.com's New Year's Message
Michael Fremer  |  Jan 01, 2015  |  82 comments
2014 was a fantastic year for vinyl. 2015 looks to be an even better one. Analogplanet.com's editor Michael Fremer looks back on the year past and forward to next year on this "one take" video self-shot after a four day room-cleaning binge during which he discovered vinyl treasures hidden in plain sight.

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The Eagle Has Landed: Phoenix Engineering's High Power Digital Turntable PSU
Michael Fremer  |  Dec 26, 2014  |  8 comments
Phoenix Engineering, manufacturer of the Falcon Digital Turntable PSU and Roadrunner Tachometer today announced the new High Power Eagle PSU designed to work with both VPI's higher powered motor equipped 'tables and those with dual motor/flywheels—as well as with any A.C. synchronous motor of 15 or fewer watts.

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2015: The Year of the New Record Presses!
Michael Fremer  |  Dec 20, 2014  |  26 comments
New record presses are the big news today!
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