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Approximately 73,985,000 Records Pressed Worldwide in 2014 So How Can 9.2 Million Sold Be Correct? (Updated 5/4/15)
Michael Fremer  |  Apr 30, 2015
The graphic above is incorrect but based upon projections for 2014. Nielsen/Soundscan reported recently that 9.2 million vinyl records were sold in 2014—a whopping 54% increase over 2013.

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FMU Record Fair This Weekend Now in Brooklyn, NY
Michael Fremer  |  Apr 30, 2015
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TMZ Reports Joni Mitchell in Coma, Unresponsive (Updated)
Michael Fremer  |  Apr 28, 2015
The website TMZ reported today that Joni Mitchell is in a coma and unresponsive ("with no immediate prospects for getting better").

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Roxy Music Box Set—First Look and Listen
Michael Fremer  |  Apr 22, 2015
In this You Tube video, analogplanet editor Michael Fremer takes a look and limited listen to Universal Music's new 8 LP Roxy Music box set and finds some sonic surprises.

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Eric Leefe's Last Call to Rock'n'Roll
Michael Fremer  |  Apr 21, 2015
Many analogplanet.com readers are well-acquainted with Eric Leefe's story. For those who are not, I first read about Eric in an inspirational piece by music journalist Jim Beckerman published last summer inThe Bergen Record.

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Confession: I Didn't Go to a Record Store on RSD
Michael Fremer  |  Apr 19, 2015
I missed Record Store Day this year. As some of you know, I was banned last year from my local record store for good behavior. I did nothing wrong. The owner's brother started lecturing me rather angrily on how to remove a record from a jacket and it escalated out of control from there.

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Some Record Store Day Offerings For April 18th 2015
Michael Fremer  |  Apr 15, 2015
Here are some RSD 2015 offerings from Sony/Legacy and Rhino. Other labels have plenty too, but only these two bothered to send their titles. Have fun!

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"Ultimate Sinatra" Compilation Includes Columbia, Capitol and Reprise Tracks (Updated 4/13/15)
Michael Fremer  |  Apr 10, 2015
Capitol/UMe kicks off the Frank Sinatra centennial with Ultimate Sinatra a multi-format April 21st release that will include a 24 track double 180g vinyl edition, a 25 track CD, a 26 track digital download and a deluxe 101 track 4 CD set.

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Joni Mitchell Sounds Off on Digital Recording
Michael Fremer  |  Apr 07, 2015
In case you missed this Billboard Magazine interview with Joni Mitchell, conducted upon the release of her 4 CD retrospective box set Love Has Many Faces, A Quartet, A Ballet, Waiting to Be Danced.

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M2tech Joplin A/D Converter Gets Mk2 Update (Revised 4/9/2015)
Michael Fremer  |  Apr 07, 2015
The M2tech Joplin, one of the A/D converters profiled in the recent A/D converter "shoot out" has had a "make over".

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Legendary Mastering Engineer Doug Sax Has Passed Away
Michael Fremer  |  Apr 02, 2015
It is with much sadness that I inform you that Doug Sax, the great mastering engineer, direct-to-disc pioneer, co-founder of Sheffield Labs, founder of The Mastering Lab and of course a truly wonderful and pleasingly cantankerous person, passed away the morning of April 2nd. He would have been 79 on April 26th.

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A Visit to VPI's New Showroom
Michael Fremer  |  Mar 24, 2015
On Sunday, March 22nd, VPI Industries hosted a meeting of the New Jersey Audiophile Society at its new showroom, which was formerly the home of VPI's founder Harry Weisfeld.

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"Garage Sale" Find Has QRP Adding 13 Additional Record Presses! (Now Video Enhanced)
Michael Fremer  |  Mar 02, 2015
Quality Record Pressing (QRP) announced today that thirteen additional presses will soon go online at its Salina, Kansas facility after discovering them recently lying dormant in a Chicago warehouse.

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Mark Knopler Cuts a New Song to Analog Tape
Michael Fremer  |  Feb 20, 2015
A reader forwarded a new video showing Mark Knopfler, who had recorded his share of albums digitally, back in the studio recording to analog tape using tube compressors to achieve the desired sound based on sound not necessarily the latest technology.
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Roxy Music Box Set Coming March 16th From Universal
Michael Fremer  |  Feb 12, 2015
Roxy Music, the art-rock band that spawned the music careers of lead singer Bryan Ferry and producer, music experimenter (and who knows how to adequately describe him) Brian Eno will get the full and well deserved box set treatment from UMe.

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