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RMAF 2016
Take A Walk Through the RMAF Market Place
Michael Fremer  |  Oct 08, 2016  |  3 comments
Take a day one walk through the RMAF Market Place area with analog planet editor Michael Fremer
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RMAF 2016
"Cozy" Rocky Mountain Audio Festival Off To Good Start
Michael Fremer  |  Oct 08, 2016  |  2 comments
With half the Denver Tech Center Marriott closed for renovations and the other half newly renovated, the audio industry approached RMAF 2016 with caution and some cancellations. Nonetheless, industry participation was strong and most were satisfied with their rooms—at least for this transitional year.

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News
Analogue Productions Announces Ultra Tape R2R Reissue Program
Michael Fremer  |  Oct 06, 2016  |  31 comments
Analogue Productions Ultra Tape is a new reel-to-reel reissue program that includes some highly sought after titles at 15IPS, 1/4 inch half-track..

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Phono Preamp Reviews
Audio Alchemy's High Performance PPA-1 MM/MC Phono Preamplifier
Michael Fremer  |  Oct 05, 2016  |  6 comments
Audio Alchemy was one of the premier “go to” budget priced audio companies of the late 1980’s through the 1990s, at which point it went out of business for reasons having little to do with the quality of its products.

What some people forget is that aside from producing reasonably priced, high performance gear, the company also issued some truly high tech products like the Digital Transmission Interface Pro32, which included an I2S interface that produced a low jitter connection between a transport the company also made that had an I2S output and DAC.

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News
Voyager Golden Record: 40th Anniversary Edition Kickstarter Project
Michael Fremer  |  Oct 03, 2016  |  8 comments
From the Kickstarter page:

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AnalogPlanet Radio
AnalogPlanet Radio's WFDU HD2 "The Rolling Stones Mono Box Set Comparison" Show
Michael Fremer  |  Oct 03, 2016  |  18 comments
Today’s show lets you hear and compare original British and American mono Rolling Stones records with the new The Rolling Stones in Mono box set.

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News
Verve/UMe Releases Individually Nina Simone Philips era Vinyl Box Set Albums
Michael Fremer  |  Oct 03, 2016  |  0 comments
Nina Simone's Philips catalog, recorded between 1964 and 1967 includes much of her most essential recordings.

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AAA VinylAlbum Reviews
Mobile Fidelity Reissues Love's "Forever Changes" at 45rpm
Michael Fremer  |  Oct 02, 2016  |  31 comments
One of the great albums of the 1960s—for me an essential album— gets the double 45rpm treatment from Mobile Fidelity. Rhino reissued this a few years ago mastered by Chris Bellman and Bernie Grundman Mastering from the original tape.

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AAA VinylAlbum Reviews
The Monty Alexander Trio Live! at the Montreux Festival
Michael Fremer  |  Oct 02, 2016  |  1 comments
Jamaican-born pianist Monty Alexander still tours at age seventy two. He was but thirty two when this live album was recorded at The Montreux Jazz Festival.

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News
AnalogPlanet Visits Jerry Harvey Audio
Michael Fremer  |  Sep 30, 2016  |  2 comments
While headphones are not AnalogPlanet's "beat", when editor Michael Fremer found himself in Orlando, Florida to address the Barnes & Noble national manager's convention, at the invitation of company president Andy Regan—a Fremer friend for at least three decades—he visited Orlando based Jerry Harvey Audio.

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