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Turntable Reviews
Music Hall's MMF-11.1 Top of the Line Turntable
Michael Fremer  |  Jul 03, 2014  |  11 comments
It’s no secret that Pro-Ject builds Music Hall turntables to Music Hall’s specifications and design parameters using mostly “off the Pro-Ject shelf” mechanical components. Before getting to the 11.1, perhaps you are wondering why Pro-Ject would want to compete with itself.

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Album Reviews
Highway 61 Revisited  Revisited By Mobile Fidelity at 45rpm
Michael Fremer  |  Jul 01, 2014  |  38 comments
Dylan's previous album Bringing It All Back Home arguably contains the first rap song ("Subterranean Homesick Blues") and is associated with the first rock video—the one where he holds up those cue cards with some of the lyrics—but this album made Dylan a rock star. The cover photo remains iconic and enigmatic: Dylan as The Mona Lisa?

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Album Reviews
Kenny Burrell's Classic Midnight Blue   At 33 1/3 From Music Matters
Michael Fremer  |  Jun 30, 2014  |  33 comments
On his posthumous album The Sky Is Crying, Stevie Ray Vaughan covers "Chitlins Con Carne", the opening tune on this seminal 1963 jazz/blues release. The annotation includes a quote from brother Jimmie who said that the album was "...a tribute to Stevie's heroes...." among whom was Burrell. Despite his undeserved reputation as a "note-slinger", SRV's version evokes the delicacy, nuance and open spaces found on the original.

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Album Reviews
Peter, Paul and Mary's Debut Album Cut From Master Tape at 45rpm From ORG
Michael Fremer  |  Jun 28, 2014  |  18 comments
Peter, Paul and Mary brought gospel fervor to the staid folk revival of the early '60s. Though they got their live chops at Paul Colby's Bitter End, the brick wall of which serves as the cover's backdrop, it was this album that propelled them to pop music-like mainstream stardom.

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News
Beatles Monos Get New York City Debut At Electric Lady Studios
Michael Fremer  |  Jun 27, 2014  |  25 comments
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Letters to the Editor
Reader Finds It Pays to Listen to Analog Rabbi
Michael Fremer  |  Jun 27, 2014  |  4 comments
Michael,

There was a time when I started buying records out of sheer boredom with Compact Discs.

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Album Reviews
Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble TEXAS Hurricane   Box Set (corrected copy)
Michael Fremer  |  Jun 26, 2014  |  21 comments
Why has the blues been banished from popular music? Probably because young people today don’t have the blues. For one thing they seem generally more happy and well-adjusted than previous generations—certainly in matters of sex, though recently a youngster who couldn’t get any indulged his self-pity with a mass shooting. Perhaps had he learned to sing or even listen to the blues, some soothing could have stopped him.

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News
Led Zep Files Identified
Michael Fremer  |  Jun 26, 2014  |  10 comments
In the Led Zeppelin II review Analogplanet.com included two unidentified 96/24 files containing short "needle drop" excerpts, one sourced from the new 96/24 reissue and one sourced from the Classic Records reissue.

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Beatles
Ortofon's 2M Mono Special Edition First Listen——World Exclusive!
Michael Fremer  |  Jun 25, 2014  |  36 comments
Analogplanet received one of the first Ortofon 2M MONO Special Edition cartridges developed by the company in cooperation with Universal Music Group as a tribute to the upcoming Beatles "Back to Mono" box set.

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Phono Preamp Reviews
Is Swan Song Audio's New Cygnet Phono Preamplifier Worth Its Weight In Copper?
Michael Fremer  |  Jun 23, 2014  |  50 comments
Swan Song Audio (www.swansongaudio.com), newly arrived in the audiophile electronics market will make its show debut at October’s Rocky Mountain Audio Festival 2014. Earlier this year Anthony Crocker (who I think at this time is Swan Song Audio), emailed and offered for review his Cygnet Phono Preamplifier.

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