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Michael Fremer  |  Jun 03, 2012  |  First Published: Dec 31, 1969  |  7 comments
Do I even have to tell you what album this is? Okay, I guess I do. It's Dave Brubeck's "time travel" masterpiece Take Five of course, about to be reissued by Acoustic Sounds as a double 45rpm edition that includes deluxe gatefold packaging

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Michael Fremer  |  Jun 03, 2012  |  First Published: Dec 31, 1969  |  6 comments
VPI demoed a more polished version of the company's new $1300 Traveler turntable/tonearm combination. If this aluminum paltered turntable that new includes a removable arm sounds as good as it looks, it should be a
Michael Fremer  |  Jun 03, 2012  |  First Published: Dec 31, 1969  |  2 comments
Nothing a clean mind and heart can't cure. Actually it's an album cover for a 1950s David Oistrach violin recital album on Parliament records (PLP 118) that includes Prokofiev's "Love For Three Oranges."
Michael Fremer  |  Jun 03, 2012  |  First Published: Dec 31, 1969  |  0 comments
It's official: there was more vinyl for sale at this year's Newport show than at any show in American audio show history.
Michael Fremer  |  Jun 02, 2012  |  First Published: Dec 31, 1969  |  0 comments
PBN's Olympian PX Fully Balanced Phono Preamp features a hefty outboard power supply and is fully balanced.
Michael Fremer  |  Jun 02, 2012  |  First Published: Dec 31, 1969  |  3 comments
The folks who manufacture the Spin Clean record cleaning machine—the least expensive effective record cleaning device introduced a new Limited Edition "Executive Model"....
Michael Fremer  |  Jun 02, 2012  |  First Published: Dec 31, 1969  |  0 comments
Germany-based Stein Music exhibited a Benz-Micro based boron cantilevered MC phono cartridge featuring a a brass mounting structure encased in a sandwiched body of Mahogany and carbon fiber
Michael Fremer  |  Jun 01, 2012  |  First Published: Dec 31, 1969  |  7 comments
Vinyl's continuing growth and perhaps future dominance of the high performance audio scene was evident on opening day of T.H.E. Show Newport 2012.
Michael Fremer  |  Jun 01, 2012  |  First Published: Dec 31, 1969  |  8 comments
My feelings about CDs were expressed early and often. Here with VPI's Harry Weisfeld. It’s a nerdy question, but do you remember where you were when you heard your first Compact Disc? For me it was at a Los Angeles Audio Engineering Society convention in 1982.

I’m neither a recording engineer nor an AES member. My invitation was courtesy the head of the sound department at Walt Disney, where I was then supervising the soundtrack to the movie TRON.”

Michael Fremer  |  May 30, 2012  |  5 comments
Youngsters will find it hard to believe there was a time when legendary music existed for most only in whispers but that’s how it was in the late 1960s. We saw what they wanted us to see and heard what they wanted us to hear.

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