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Analog Corner
Analog Corner #51
Michael Fremer  |  Nov 08, 2013  |  First Published: Oct 01, 1999  |  1 comments
A family came to pick up a puppy we'd bred. The 11-year-old son entered my listening room, and I asked him if there was something he'd like to hear. "Nirvana," he requested, so I got out the Mobile Fidelity LP of Nevermind. "I've never heard a record in my life," he said, as I slipped it on the Basis Debut, currently being reviewed. When "Smells Like Teen Spirit" ended, he turned to me: "You have a really great stereo! I've never heard half that stuff."

"Would you like to hear the CD version?" I asked.

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News
Boston's Newbury Comics, Now Into Vinyl Reissues Has New Newsletter
Michael Fremer  |  Nov 07, 2013  |  First Published: Dec 31, 1969  |  8 comments
Boston retailer Newbury Comics, a recent entry in the vinyl reissue game, just announced a newsletter to which you can subscribe.
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Despite Typhoon Yolanda, Manila Hi-Fi Show Still On For Saturday and Sunday November 9th and 10th
Michael Fremer  |  Nov 07, 2013  |  First Published: Dec 31, 1969  |  2 comments
Show organizers expect 2500-3000 attendees, though those flying in from neighboring islands may be prevented from doing so due to canceled flights.
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All Is Well In Manila
Michael Fremer  |  Nov 07, 2013  |  First Published: Dec 31, 1969  |  3 comments
All is well in Manila
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Rhino Issues "EAGLES: THE STUDIO ALBUMS 1972-1979" Box Set On Six 180gram Vinyl LPs
Michael Fremer  |  Nov 05, 2013  |  First Published: Dec 31, 1969  |  13 comments
Rhino has released its long awaited Eagles box set containing Eagles, Desperado, On the Border, One of These Nights, Hotel California and The Long Run
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Analogplanet Editor Off to Manila Today!
Michael Fremer  |  Nov 04, 2013  |  First Published: Dec 31, 1969  |  10 comments
I leave today for Manila, The Philippines to do a turntable set-up seminar at a HiFi Show November 9th and 10th.
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Jimi Hendrix: "Hear My Train A Comin' " American Masters Special on PBS November 5th
Michael Fremer  |  Nov 04, 2013  |  First Published: Dec 31, 1969  |  5 comments
Don't miss this two hour PBS special on the life of Jimi Hendrix November 5th on PBS.
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Interviews
Analogplanet Interviews Producer/Arranger/Musician John Simon (Corrected Introduction)
Michael Fremer  |  Nov 03, 2013  |  First Published: Dec 31, 1969  |  5 comments
I drove to record producer and musician John Simon’s Catskill mountaintop home on a gorgeous, unusually mild November 1st day. Simon is best known for producing Songs of Leonard Cohen, BS&T’s Child is Father to the Man, Big Brother and the Holding Company’s Cheap Thrills and of course The Band albums Music From Big Pink, The Band and The Last Waltz
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Analog Corner
Analog Corner #50
Michael Fremer  |  Nov 01, 2013  |  First Published: Dec 31, 1969  |  2 comments
After I saw my MP3 e-mail exchange with the editor of the "Circuits" section of the New York Times in the February Stereophile, I began to think that publishing it hadn't been such a great idea. If the exchange had burned my bridge to the Times, publishing it in this column had probably NATO-bombed it.

But eventually I made peace with my decision and forgot about it. Mikey vs the Times was a dead issue no matter what I did or didn't do, and at least Stereophile subscribers got to read what happened. Some of you thought it made the Times look bad, some of you thought it made me look like a hothead.

So, after all that, after explaining to the "Circuits" editor that, whatever benefits MP3 offers, "CD-quality" sound isn't among them, guess what appeared on the front page of the "Circuits" section of Thursday, June 17? An article titled "The Beat Goes on Line, and Sometimes It's Legal," by David Kushner, the lead sentence of which read "If there is a 'Phantom Menace' of the Internet, it's MP3, the compression software that enables CD-quality music to be sent on line. Like the film, MP3 comes with a considerable amount of hyperbole, promise and, alas, science fiction."

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Features
Analogplanet.com Visits VPI Industries Part 3
Michael Fremer  |  Oct 31, 2013  |  First Published: Dec 31, 1969  |  15 comments
Harry Weisfeld has "ring around the collar".
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