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Gold Note Adds Outboard PSU For Its PH-10 MM/MC Phono Preamplifier
Michael Fremer  |  Jun 01, 2018  |  1 comments
FIRENZE, Italy: Italian High-End manufacturer Gold Note – just introduced the PSU-10 external power supply developed to enhance the performance of the PH-10 phono stage.

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Audio Fidelity's Marshall Blonstein Calls It "A Side"
Michael Fremer  |  Jun 01, 2018  |  6 comments
Marshall Blonstein, owner/founder of both the DCC Compact Classics and Audio Fidelity labels and a record industry veteran revealed in a recent email that he was retiring and closing down the Audio Fidelity label (the photo L-R is of Blonstein, AnalogPlanet editor Michael Fremer and legendary mastering engineer Kevin Gray taken during the TRON double LP mastering sessions).

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Dave Wilson (1944-2018)
Michael Fremer  |  May 28, 2018  |  9 comments
I first met Dave Wilson in the pages of The Absolute Sound in 1980 when he was a reviewer and I was too poor to own much of anything written about in the magazine. Actually, Dave was listed in the masthead not as a reviewer, but as a “Technical Writer”.

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Pro-Ject's Heinz Lichtenegger Buys Musical Fidelity
Michael Fremer  |  May 27, 2018  |  3 comments
There's never been an official press release about Pro-Ject's purchase of Musical Fidelity from owner Antony Michaelson so this site has held off reporting it until it could be confirmed. Last week, while at the EISA Global Press Convention in Antwerp, Belgium, AnalogPlanet editor Michael Fremer had an opportunity to speak with Pro-Ject CEO Heinz Lichtenegger about the Musical Fidelity purchase.

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Wilson Audio Specialties Today Launches TuneTot Desktop Speaker System
Michael Fremer  |  May 10, 2018  |  13 comments
Wilson Audio Specialties today launched TuneTot, a compact desk-top loudspeaker intended primarily for near or mid-field listening in the executive suite, boardroom or wherever space is tight. Ideally, the speaker should be placed close to a wall to get low frequency boundary reinforcement benefits.

TuneTot the company’s most compact design since the mid-‘80s launch of the original WATT (Wilson Audio Tiny Tot). Wilson’s literature says it’s designed primarily for use on bookshelves, credenzas, counters and of course desktops—and not simply because of its size.

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"Dazed and Confused"—LAAS Audio Show Cancelled (And Not Due to Lack of Interest!)
Michael Fremer  |  May 03, 2018  |  44 comments
This morning the Los Angeles Audio Show scheduled for June 8th-10th at the Hilton Irvine Hotel was suddenly and without warning cancelled via a somewhat bizarre email show organizer Marine de Rogez-Presson sent to participants.

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Wilson Audio Specialties "Gets Small" With TuneTot
Michael Fremer  |  May 03, 2018  |  6 comments
"TuneTot", is a new Wilson Audio Specialties product that will launch May 10th during High End Munich. That and the above image are all that can be said at this time about "TuneTot" other than it is not for babies, is not related to TaterTots, is not a pair of headphones, is not made in China, does not slice, dice, chop, grind or peel and will not give your children great haircuts or put a fishing rod in your pocket.

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Rhino to Release on June 29th Buffalo Springfield's "What's That Sound? The Complete Albums Collection"
Michael Fremer  |  May 01, 2018  |  6 comments
Rhino releases on June 29th What's That Sound? The Complete Albums Collection Buffalo Springfield's three studio albums newly remastered, sourced from the original analog tapes under Neil Young's "auspices". The boxed set will be available on five CDs, or as a limited to 5000 copies 180g LP edition. Though the group released but 3 LPs, the set includes the mono editions of Buffalo Springfield and Again. The date celebrate's the group's final live concert 50 years ago.

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Shure Exits the Phono Cartridge Business
Michael Fremer  |  May 01, 2018  |  10 comments
Shure Statement Regarding the Discontinuation of Phono Products

For more than 90 years, Shure has been committed to manufacturing and delivering products of the highest quality, reliability, and value. This commitment requires consistency in materials, processes, and testing, as well the capacity to react to fluctuations in demand.

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SME Limited Acquires Legendary Turntable Manufacturer Garrard Audio
Michael Fremer  |  May 01, 2018  |  2 comments
SME Limited announced today that it had acquired Garrard from Gradiente Electronics of Brazil, which in 1979 had acquired the brand name. In addition, SME announced it had acquired Loricraft Audio founded by Terry O'Sullivan who set up shop in Lambourn, West Berkshire close to Garrard's original Swindon manufacturing site.

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SAEC Again Producing Classic Double Knife-Edge Bearing Tone Arm
Michael Fremer  |  Apr 26, 2018  |  4 comments
After a more than 30 year absence SAEC's double knife-edged bearing tone arm is once again in production and will be available through DS Exports, DS Audio's new export division. DS Audio, of course manufactures a line of "optical" cartridges and dedicated phono preamplifiers.

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Saxophonist Jerome Sabbagh Shares With AnalogPlanet Readers Two Tracks From Upcoming AAA Album
Michael Fremer  |  Apr 25, 2018  |  6 comments
Jerome Sabbagh's upcoming album is not yet pressed but will be shortly, with lacquers cut by Bernie Grundman from the original master tapes and pressed at QRP.

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They Came Back —One Store's RSD 2018 Story
Michael Fremer  |  Apr 24, 2018  |  6 comments
Thanks to an anonymous source, here's one record store's RSD story: Comeback Vinyl opened 2014 in Atlanta and just recently moved to its current Alpharetta, GA. location. These photos, showing the line stretched around the block, are from last week's Record Store Day. Clearly customers did "Comeback" to Comeback Vinyl!

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Clapton Showtime Doc Getting 4 LP OST Album July 20th
Michael Fremer  |  Apr 20, 2018  |  4 comments
"Life in 12 Bars" the Showtime documentary directed by Lili Fini Zanuck available now streaming and on demand gets a 2 CD, 4LP original soundtrack album that includes a total of 32 tracks by The Yardbirds, John Mayall's Bluesbreakers, Cream, Blind Faith, Derek and the Dominoes, The Beatles, Aretha Franklin, Muddy Waters and Clapton's solo work.

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"Secret" Humble Pie Long Player For Record Store Day 2018 (No Longer Secret)
Michael Fremer  |  Apr 19, 2018  |  3 comments
Just going to publish the press release verbatim so if you have any friends in that part of the U.K.:

Immediate Records Presents “Humble Pie On 79th Street” Limited Edition Vinyl LP - A Secret Release For Record Store Day UK April 21

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