T.H.E. Show Newport 2013

Helius Designs Debuts New Alexia Turntable

Michael Fremer  |  Jun 1, 2013

Veteran U.K. based tone arm manufacturer Helius Designs has added a turntable to its line.

T.H.E. Show Newport 2013

Upscale Audio's Kevin Deal Displays NOS "Valve Porn"

Michael Fremer  |  Jun 1, 2013

Tube freaks got a dose of "valve porn" in Kevin Deal's Upscale Audio room. Deal has been roaming the world in search of NOS tubes and he put on display some of his treasures: musty old boxes filled with NOS (new old stock) tubes unearthed in former Soviet bloc country warehouses as well as a huge trove he discovered by chance recently in Paris.

T.H.E. Show Newport 2013

LKV Research Launches Value Packed Two Box Made In the U.S.A. Phono 2-SB MM/MC Phono Preamplifier

Michael Fremer  |  Jun 1, 2013

was convinced that after Munich I'd have nothing new to report to you from this show. I was wrong. LKV Research, out of New Hampshire debuted at T.H.E. Show Newport 2013 its new two box solid state phono preamplifier.

T.H.E. Show Newport 2013

Channel D Unveils Snazzy Upgrade to Seta Model L Phono Preamplifier

Michael Fremer  |  Jun 1, 2013

Channel D's Rob Robinson, creator of Pure Music and Pure Vinyl software showed and played for me via an AMG Viella turntable and tonearm, the upgraded edition of his battery powered direct coupled, fully balanced Seta Model L Phono preamplifier.

T.H.E. Show Newport 2013

Basis Work of Art $150,000 Turntable Shown For First Time at North American Audio Show

Michael Fremer  |  Jun 1, 2013

Bais Audio's A.J. Conti chose T.H.E. Show Newport 2013 to introduce his top of the line Work of Art turntable. Though it's bee available for a few years, he's not brought it to a show. It was spinning records via his new Superarm 9 tone arm

T.H.E. Show Newport 2013

T.H.E. Show Newport Beach 2013 Coverage Coming Up!

Michael Fremer  |  May 31, 2013

T.H.E. Show Newport Beach 2013 is underway and coverage will begin later today. I participated in the ribbon cutting ceremony with John Atkinson, Robert Harley and Dr. David Robinson wearing the GoPro camera so you could see the event from my perspective but the camera was accidentally set to 'still' and I didn't get the video.

Interviews

Analogplanet Interviews Record Industry Pressing Plant Owner Ton Vermeulen

Michael Fremer  |  May 30, 2013

Before touring the Record Industry pressing plant Analogplanet's Michael Fremer sat down with Ton Vermeulen to get the factory's history and a figurative finger on the pulse of a man who would buy a record pressing plant as the vinyl record lay on its supposed death bed.

Album Reviews

David Bowie's "The Next Day" Offers a Bleak Yet Satisfying World View

Michael Fremer  |  May 30, 2013

The Next Day
David Bowie
 
Columbia 2 180g LPs+CD
Produced by: Tony Visconti and David Bowie
Engineered by: Mario McNulty
Mixed by: Tony Visconti
Mastered by: Dave McNair (lacquers cut by Alex DeTurk at Masterdisk)
 
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David Bowie fans who lost the thread around his Tin Machine days or who meandered mystified or perhaps less than fully satisfied through his end of century output and beyond need to return for The Next Day his first album in a decade, following his 2004 heart attack and major surgery. Not that Heathens wasn’t a good outing or that some of the others didn’t have their great moments.

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David Bowie
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The Next Day
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Columbia 2 180g LPs+CD
Cred Prod: 
Tony Visconti and David Bowie
Cred Eng: 
Mario McNulty
Cred Mix: 
Tony Visconti
Cred Mast: 
Dave McNair (lacquers cut by Alex DeTurk at Masterdisk)
Michael Fremer
David Bowie fans who lost the thread around his Tin Machine days or who meandered mystified or perhaps less than fully satisfied through his end of century output and beyond need to return for The Next Day his first album in a decade, following his 2004 heart attack and major surgery. Not that Heathens wasn’t a good outing

Features

Analogplanet Tours Record Industry, Europe's Largest Record Pressing Plant

Michael Fremer  |  May 26, 2013

After visiting the U.K. after Munich's High End show, I flew to Amsterdam. Record Industry pressing plant owner Ton Vermuelen picked me up at the airport and drove me to the Haarlem-based pressing plant he owns.

Analog Corner

Analog Corner #38

Michael Fremer  |  May 26, 2013

I flew into Los Angeles a week early to be HI-FI '98's media mouth. I hung at the hotel as much as possible, but there were radio stations and record stores to visit. I'd decided not to schlep records with me from back east, instead relying on what I could find in the L.A. bins.

What luck! Rockaway was having another half-price sale on used vinyl. I got unplayed "steamboat''-label Reprise pressings of the Kinks' Kink Kontroversy and You Really Got Me, and a British Apple original of the Beatles' 1962–66, for 12 bucks apiece.

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