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Eric Leefe's Last Call to Rock'n'Roll Monday Night 5/4
Michael Fremer  |  May 01, 2015
This is the poster we'll have at the front door Monday evening at Blue Moon Café in Wyckoff, NJ.

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Ernst Benz R.I.P.
Michael Fremer  |  Jul 29, 2014
Ernst Benz founder of moving coil cartridge manufacturer Benz Micro passed away on July 5th, 2014 in his Neuhausen-am-Rheinfall, Switzerland home at age 82, surrounded by his family.

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Everclear’s Songs From an American Movie Vol. One: Learning How to Smile to Be Released on Analog-Mastered, Limited-Edition 140g Yellow Vinyl by Intervention Records on September 13
Mike Mettler  |  Jun 04, 2024

Maybe we were once too damn cool to buy the 8-track tape, but we’re more than happy to pony up for the upcoming limited-edition Intervention Records 140g yellow-vinyl 1LP edition of Everclear’s July 2000 album Songs From an American Movie Vol One: Learning How to Smile. Set for release on September 13, 2024, it’s the first time this platinum-selling album will be on vinyl. Read on to see how the Intervention team is making sure SFAAM Vol One is going to be one worthwhile analog-centric spin. . .

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Exclusive Premiere: How Clare Fischer Utilized the Yamaha EX-42 Synthesizer on Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood’s 1972 Classic Nancy & Lee Again, Now Available in a First-Time 1LP Remastered Reissue From Light in the Attic
Mike Mettler  |  May 17, 2023

Archival label Light in the Attic (LITA) is behind the first official LP reissue of Nancy & Lee Again, the acclaimed 1972 sophomore collaborative album from Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazlewood, which was remastered for this release using the original analog tapes. In an AP exclusive video premiere, we go inside keyboard wizard Clare Fischer’s innovative deployment of the Yamaha EX-42 synthesizer on this truly classic album. . .

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Exclusive: More News About the Tom Petty Box Sets
Michael Fremer  |  Oct 27, 2016
According to mastering engineer Chris Bellman at Bernie Grundman Mastering, all of the albums in both box sets were massacred from the analog master tapes with the following exceptions:

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Faces Box Set "You Can Make Me Dance, Sing or Anything" Cut From Analog Tapes
Michael Fremer  |  Jul 22, 2015
"To deliver superior audiophile quality, each album was cut from the original analog master tapes directly to lacquers and pressed on 180-gram heavyweight vinyl."
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Fall Tour For Van Dyke Parks and Clare and the Reasons
Michael Fremer  |  Sep 06, 2010
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Fans Demand More Blue Notes From Music Matters!
Michael Fremer  |  Mar 11, 2017
A group of determined fans of both the Blue Note jazz catalog and the Music Matters reissues, which are always done from tape and done correctly recently started a drive to convince the label to issue more of Blue Notes after the label apparently decided it had released a sufficient number.

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Fascinating MusicWatch "In Depth" Survey of Vinyl Record Buyers
Michael Fremer  |  Apr 19, 2022
Press release: April 19, 2022 New York: MusicWatch, a leading U.S. research and analytics company serving the music industry for nearly a quarter of a century, unveiled today a first of its kind study conducted in cooperation with the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and the Music Business Association. The study, titled Revelations About the Vinyl Revolution, offers a detailed look at the current state of the vinyl record market; as well as the preferences and predispositions of the purchasers and listeners to this classic format.

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Fidelity Announces California-Based Record Pressing Facility Will Start Vinyl LP Production in Q1 2023
Mike Mettler  |  Jun 29, 2022
This is some most welcome pressing news indeed. To wit: Fidelity Record Pressing (Fidelity) has just announced a state-of-the-art record-pressing facility is being constructed from the ground up in Oxnard (Ventura County), California, and it will launch in Q1 2023.
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Fidelity Imports and Playback Distribution Join Forces to Launch True North Distribution in Canada
Mike Mettler  |  Mar 23, 2026

Mais oui! Fidelity Imports and Playback Distribution have just announced the formation of True North Distribution, a new Canadian joint venture dedicated to importing and distributing (in their words) “exceptional” high-fidelity audio products across Canada. . .

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Finally! The Contemporary Records Acoustic Sounds Series Reaches the Presses
Michael Fremer  |  Mar 08, 2022
The extensive, long planned and then delayed Contemporary Records-Acoustic Sounds series finally drops beginning May 13th with six key titles mastered AAA by Bernie Grundman, pressed at QRP on 180g vinyl and presented in Stoughton Old Style Tip On jackets. The series is a continuation of Craft Records' 70th Anniversary Contemporary Records Celebration.

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Fine Dining and a Side of Vienna Philharmonic String Quartet Monday March 4th. New Yorkers Take Notice!
Michael Fremer  |  Feb 27, 2013
We often talk about "cross-pollination" opportunities in the high performance audio world, like putting a cool system in a high-end furniture store or at trade-shows not associated with audio. It's a good way to interest a different demographic to the hobby.

I was just alerted to this event by a friend who is the oleologist (olive oil specialist) at New York's Eataly, the world's largest artisanal Italian food and wine marketplace, organized along similar lines, at Del Posto, one of New York's premier Italian restaurants—the first Italian restaurant in forty years to receive a four star review from The New York Times (in 2010).

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Fine Sounds Transforms Itself into World of McIntosh (WOM)
Michael Fremer  |  Mar 17, 2016
The Italian holding company Fine Sounds, which owns McIntosh, Audio Research Corporation, Sumiko and Wadia last fall announced a new name and marketing that puts all of the brands under one roof (literally) called "World of McIntosh".

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Finest Audio Show Zurich January 9th and 10th, 2021
Michael Fremer  |  Sep 21, 2020
The High End Society, (which also runs High End Munich) today announced the first "live" audio show of the new year, taking place January 9th and 10th, 2021. The name has been changed from HIGH END SWISS to FINEST AUDIO SHOW, which is wholly appropriate and indisputable since for now it's the only hi-fi show on the books.

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