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EMI Pressing Plant In its "Hayes Day" in Harrison Promo Video For New Box Set
Michael Fremer  |  Sep 10, 2014  |  1 comments
A YouTube promotional video for a George Harrison box set shows Living in the Material World being pressed at EMI's Hayes-Middlesex factory and at Capitol Records in 1973.
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You CANNOT Attend the New York or Los Angeles Beatles Mono Box Launch
Michael Fremer  |  Sep 04, 2014  |  23 comments
The Beatles in Mono box launches Tuesday, September 9th. UMe is sponsoring events on both coasts and you cannot sign up to possibly attend because it has already SOLD OUT.

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A Sign of the Times
Michael Fremer  |  Sep 04, 2014  |  5 comments
A Massachussetts-based reader was alarmed by a sign in the window of Tune Street his local audio store:

"All CDs & DVDs MUST GO 50% OFF BLOWOUT SALE".

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Eric Leefe Takes Delivery of his New Stereo
Michael Fremer  |  Sep 01, 2014  |  17 comments
Eric Leefe got his new stereo installed last weekend. He wanted to thank readers and acknowledge the outpouring of generosity from analogplanet.com readers so with his permission I pointed the iPhone camera at him.

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"But Wait! There's More!" Department: Dylan Bootleg Series Vol. 11, The Basement Tapes Complete
Michael Fremer  |  Aug 26, 2014  |  10 comments
Original tape sources, including "many found only recently" of Bob Dylan's legendary "Basement Tape" sessions have been meticulously restored and will be released on November 4th by Columbia Records/Legacy Recordings in a complete 6 disc CD set (The Basement Tapes Complete:The Bootleg Series Vol. 11 and in a 2 CD/3 LP 180g highlights edition (The Basement Tapes Raw: The Bootleg Series Vol. 11.

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Listen Up! Music Matters Denver Event Video Posted on YouTube
Michael Fremer  |  Aug 25, 2014  |  9 comments
Last winter analogplanet.com editor Michael Fremer attended a Music Matters event at Denver's Listen Up! retailer. Retailers throughout the country hold these "meet and greet" events for their regular customers and to attract new ones to the store.

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Hendrix's The Cry of Love and Rainbow Bridge Issued From Analog Masters by Experience Hendrix and Legacy
Michael Fremer  |  Aug 21, 2014  |  6 comments
Experience Hendrix, LLC in conjunction with Sony/Legacy will release on September 16th these two Jimi Hendrix albums on CD, digital and 180g vinyl mastered by Bernie Grundman from the original master tapes.

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UMe Announces Fall Release Schedule, Plunges Into Vinyl 33 1/3 Speed Ahead
Michael Fremer  |  Aug 21, 2014  |  26 comments
September 9th's scheduled "Back to Mono" Beatles box is far from Universal Music Enterprises' only late summer vinyl venture. UMe today announced an ambitious vinyl release schedule for September and October.

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T-Bone Burnett-Produced Lost On the River: The New Basement Tapes Set For November 11th Release
Michael Fremer  |  Aug 19, 2014  |  3 comments
Back in March while out in Los Angeles to help with the Audio Fidelity TRON reissue, I followed up on Al Schmitt's invitation to visit him at Capitol Studios where he was working on a still secret all-analog production. Schmitt took me on a tour of Capitol 's famous studios—the site of so much recorded history—and I captured most of it on video.

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MONOCHROME Recordings Takes Vinyl Exclusivity to New Extremes
Michael Fremer  |  Aug 19, 2014  |  17 comments
Monochrome Recordings is a new vinyl label with a seriously exclusive business model.
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Mr. Leefe's Wave Radio Days Numbered!
Michael Fremer  |  Aug 15, 2014  |  15 comments
The outpouring of offers to help Eric Leefe move beyond the "room filling" sound of the Wave radio has been overwhelming, both in the comments beneath the story and in emails.

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Eric Leefe Deserves The Chair
Michael Fremer  |  Aug 14, 2014  |  28 comments
Eric Leefe deserves the chair. Not the electric chair and not the wheelchair in which he's lived his entire life. The chair Eric Leefe deserves and today got was my listening chair. Or rather his chair where mine normally goes.

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Ernst Benz R.I.P.
Michael Fremer  |  Jul 29, 2014  |  7 comments
Ernst Benz founder of moving coil cartridge manufacturer Benz Micro passed away on July 5th, 2014 in his Neuhausen-am-Rheinfall, Switzerland home at age 82, surrounded by his family.

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Mats Unmasked!
Michael Fremer  |  Jul 21, 2014  |  42 comments
Thanks to all who downloaded and listened to the same track played using 8 different mats. That's a great deal of heavy lifting, hopefully made somewhat lighter by Mike Valentine's excellent Decca tree recording of a nimble performance of Vivaldi's "Concerto For 2 Mandolins". I hope you downloaded and enjoyed the "gift" track too.

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"Redbook" 16 bit/44.1K Version of Vivaldi Track Added to Mat Test
Michael Fremer  |  Jul 18, 2014  |  2 comments
Analogplanet.com readers requested we post the "rebook" version of the Vivaldi Mandolin piece so there's a reference at the same sampling and bit rate as the "needle drops".

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