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In the wake of the success of Michael, the recent biopic that focuses on Michael Jackson’s extraordinary musical career, we here at AP wanted to recommend his best work on vinyl. Thankfully, Mobile Fidelity has a trio of audiophile-level MJ releases all worthy of our needle-drop attention. Read on to see Mark Smotroff’s review of the MoFi One-Step versions of Off the Wall and Thriller, while AP editor Mike Mettler tackles the Original Master Recording version of Dangerous (and offers his thoughts on the other two MoFi MJ releases in his footnotes). . .

Carry the Light, Peter Frampton’s 19th studio album and his first collection of all-new rock material in 16 years, will be released by UMe in various formats on May 15, 2026 — but of most import to we analog planeteers, it will be appearing on 180g yellow vinyl. Read on to see what Peter and his son and co-producer Julian Frampton exclusively told AP editor Mike Mettler about the making of Light. . .

At AXPONA 2026, Julie Mullins joins American Sound in their celebration of AirTight’s 40th anniversary, and also gets to check out an AirTight ATE-3011 phono stage, an Analog Relax EX700 phono cartridge, and an SME 60 turntable. . .

In our latest AXPONA 2026 report, Julie Mullins auditions a system featuring a Well Tempered Lab Versalex turntable, Dynavector P75 Mk4.1 MM/MC phono stage, and Dynavector 20X-2A MC cartridge. . .