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Legacy's Vault-Opening Tenth Anniversary Record Store Day Swag
Michael Fremer  |  Apr 07, 2017  |  3 comments
Legacy recently announced its swag for the April 22nd 2017 tenth Record Store Day, proving cynics wrong who claim Record Store Day is "so yesterday."

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Album Reviews
"Larry Young In Paris" From Resonance Records A Must Have
Michael Fremer  |  Apr 06, 2017  |  6 comments
Over the past decade or so vinyl-loving jazz enthusiasts have been treated to a series of previously unreleased but significant recordings discovered under beds, in closets and in the vaults of European radio stations. Some were never before heard. Others were bootlegged from radio broadcasts

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Throw Away Your Old AudioQuest Carbon Fiber Brush!
Michael Fremer  |  Mar 30, 2017  |  60 comments
AudioQuest's carbon fiber brush, in production for thirty five years, has been the industry "standard" dry record brush. If you have the one pictured above, please throw it out or donate it to a really needy record collector.

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Features
Audio Porn Experiment Part #1 and #2
Michael Fremer  |  Mar 30, 2017  |  16 comments
The other day, after comparing two power conditioners that produced very different sonic results in my system, and writing a Stereophile review, I decided to conduct an experiment.

Since the sound was so different, could it be recorded? And might people visiting analogPlanet’s YouTube channel hear the differences?

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Phono Preamp Reviews
68 Years Later, McIntosh Launches Its First Stand-Alone Phono Preamplifier
Michael Fremer  |  Mar 29, 2017  |  12 comments
Some may find it difficult to believe, but the new $2000 solid-state McIntosh MP100 phono preamplifier is the sixty eight year old company’s first stand-alone phono preamplifier.

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AnalogPlanet Radio's WFDU HD2 "Phil Spector Great Nonetheless" Radio Show Streams Now (Full Show)
Michael Fremer  |  Mar 27, 2017  |  15 comments
From where came the inspiration for a two hour Phil Spector radio show, I do not know. However it did and I acted on it. So here is a two hour show featuring Phil Spector produced songs sourced exclusively from vinyl.

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Features
AnalogPlanet Tours L.A. Area Recording and Mastering Studios
Michael Fremer  |  Mar 25, 2017  |  16 comments
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Sam Records Announces a New Thelonious Monk Album For Record Store Day (Revised)
Michael Fremer  |  Mar 24, 2017  |  3 comments
Back in 1960 Thelonious Monk created the musical score for Roger Vadim's controversial film Les liaisons dangereuses. It has never before been released as an album, until now.

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Tonearm ReviewsTurntable Reviews
The Technics SL-1200G Direct Drive Turntable
Michael Fremer  |  Mar 24, 2017  |  53 comments
The original Technics SL-1200 direct drive turntable introduced in 1972 enjoyed a thirty-eight year, six generation run. Technics sold more than 3.5 million of them. In October of 2010 just as vinyl was staging its unlikely comeback, parent company Panasonic pulled the plug on the SL-1200 Mk6.

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Cracking the Columbia Records Code
Michael Fremer  |  Mar 21, 2017  |  45 comments
You can find a great deal of information online about matrix codes and their meaning. Unfortunately some of it is incorrect.

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