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AudioQuest DragonFly USB Digital-Audio Converter and Sydney Interconnect Sweepstakes
Jon Iverson  |  Oct 31, 2012  |  First Published: Dec 31, 1969  |  225 comments
Register to win an AudioQuest DragonFly USB Digital-Audio Converter and Sydney Interconnect (MSRP $478) we are giving away.

DragonFly is an affordable and easy-to-use device that delivers far superior sound by bypassing the poor quality sound card that is built into your computer. DragonFly is a sleek, flash drive sized Digital-Audio Converter that connects to a USB jack on a Mac or Windows PC, turning any computer into a true high- fidelity music source.

[This Sweepstakes is now closed.]

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News
Power Outage
Michael Fremer  |  Oct 30, 2012  |  First Published: Dec 31, 1969  |  3 comments
I'll continue posting when the power comes back.
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News
I'm Traveling
Michael Fremer  |  Oct 23, 2012  |  First Published: Dec 31, 1969  |  18 comments
(Photo by Randy Wells) I've been on the road just about the entire month of October. First at Rocky Mountain Audio Festival and this past weekend I M.C.'d at Chad Kassem's 15th Annual Blues at The Crossroads Blues Festival held at his Blue Heaven Studios, a converted church. It was a blast and of course I again got to tour the pressing plant.
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Analog Gear News
Rega Announces New RP8!
Michael Fremer  |  Oct 22, 2012  |  First Published: Dec 31, 1969  |  14 comments
Rega late last week announced a new turntable, the RP8. Available mid-December, the RP8 features an improved plinth, platter and tonearm, the RB808.
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Quality Record Pressings Expands to Ten Presses by Year's End, More When Demand Warrants (Corrected Story)
Michael Fremer  |  Oct 20, 2012  |  First Published: Dec 31, 1969  |  7 comments
I'm in Salina, Kansas this weekend M.C.-ing the Blue Heaven Studios' Masters 15th Annual Blues Masters at the Crossroads concerts.
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News
Replacement For Per Madsen's Rackit Record Storage System!
Michael Fremer  |  Oct 17, 2012  |  First Published: Dec 31, 1969  |  14 comments
When Per Madsen decided to retire a few years ago, thousands of record collectors wished him well but with great sadness. One of the sturdiest, most attractive and convenient record storage systems would no longer be manufactured.
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ORG To Reissue "Royal Gala Ballet" As Quadruple 45rpm Set
Michael Fremer  |  Oct 15, 2012  |  First Published: Dec 31, 1969  |  7 comments
Originally issued as LDS6065 on RCA Soria, this legendary DECCA UK Kingsway Hall recording is easily one of the finest orchestral recordings of the golden age or any age. (Note: image is of an original pressing)
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RMAF 2012
The iFi Micro iPhono Fits In The Palm of Your Hand, But!
Michael Fremer  |  Oct 14, 2012  |  First Published: Dec 31, 1969  |  3 comments
This little hand held wonder designed by the folks at AMR for their joint venture with i-fi Micro, features MM/MC with up to 66dB of gain on the MC input with claimed 90dB S/N ratio, 8 dip switches each for MC resistance and MM capacitive load settings.
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RMAF 2012
Aurorasound VIDA Phono Stage From Japan Uses LCR network for RIAA (Correction!)
Michael Fremer  |  Oct 14, 2012  |  First Published: Dec 31, 1969  |  2 comments
In the same room as the Rigid Float tonearm was this new VIDA MM/MC phono stage from Japan that uses an LCR network for RIAA equalization via Lundahl transformers.
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RMAF 2012
Will Viv Audio Lab's Tonearm Float Your Analog Boat?
Michael Fremer  |  Oct 14, 2012  |  First Published: Dec 31, 1969  |  2 comments
Mr. Hiroshi Ishihara of the Japan-based Sibatech, Inc. showed me the unusual and perhaps revolutionary Rigid Float RFE-02H/7 tonearm. The pivot floats in oil with absolutely no other means of support, but more unusual about this design by Mr. Koichiro Akimoto is that the arm geometry features neither an offset angle at the headshell nor an "S" shaped arm tube!

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