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Kickstarter Vinyl Project A Bit More Than 25% Funded
Michael Fremer  |  Nov 09, 2015
"Hearing is Deceiving", the vinyl project designed to find out if we can distinguish between an AAA and an ADA production is now a bit more than 25% funded with seventeen days to go.

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Kickstarter Vinyl Project Now Funded (Revised Story)
Michael Fremer  |  Oct 06, 2014
Here's producer/saxophonist Jerome Sabbagh's Kickstarter campaign message:
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Kinks Arthur.... 50th Anniversary Box Set Drops October 25th on BMG
Michael Fremer  |  Jul 30, 2019
One of the greatest of all Kinks albums—and a concept album about emigrating from England to Australia that still resonates, Arthur Or The Decline And Fall of The British Empire gets the l
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Kinks and Klem Kadiddlehopper?
Michael Fremer  |  Apr 04, 2013
The Dorsey Brothers, Tommy and Jimmy saw the rock'n'roll handwriting on the wall back in 1956. The big banders invited Elvis Presley onto their television show. It was Elvis's first TV appearance and it created a sensation.

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KINKS KUT FROM ORIGINAL PYE MASTER TAPES!
Michael Fremer  |  Jun 09, 2015
It's official: The recently released Sanctuary Kinks albums were mastered by Kevin Gray from the original Pye master tapes. Gray just got permission to reveal this.

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Kirmuss Audio Versus The LAST Factory! Gloves On! Rabbits Off!
Michael Fremer  |  Sep 25, 2019
If you've watched the "RMAF Wrap-up" video on the AnalogPlanet YouTube channel (which today hit 30,000 subscribers), you no doubt remember the surprise "name check" encounter with record restoration expert Charles Kirmuss. It wasn't a "set up". I happened to walk into the room where he was restoring records for attendees as he talked about LAST Record Preservative and said "unlike Michael Fremer who...."—well watch the video below.

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Kitchen Accessories For Vinyl Fanatics
Michael Fremer  |  Apr 05, 2014
Okay, this is way out in left field…...
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Kronos Audio Products to Introduce Lower Priced Sparta Turntable at the International CES Show
Michael Fremer  |  Dec 23, 2013
Canada based Kronos Audio Products announced the introduction of Sparta, a lower priced edition of its dual platter turntable design. The new dual platter $21,000 'table (introductory price) is similar in concept to the more expensive Kronos Limited Edition and Kronos PRO models.

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KUZMA Announces New SAFIR 9 Tonearm
Michael Fremer  |  Mar 17, 2022
Following 5 years of R&D Franc Kuzma today introduced his latest creation, the SAFIR 9 tonearm. The conical arm tube is fabricated from sapphire— "the first implementation of the precious stone" for this application.

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Lalo Schifrin's "Bullit" Soundtrack Coming to Vinyl On Record Store Day
Michael Fremer  |  Apr 07, 2014
Aleph Records will release its first ever vinyl soundtrack on RSD 2014.
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Large Files Coming Your Way Hopefully Tomorrow!
Michael Fremer  |  Jul 22, 2013
The plan is to post links tomorrow to the 10 96/24 FLAC files of Myra Taylor's "Spider and The Fly" from her My Night to Dream album (APO 2017) released in 2000 as a double 45rpm 180g LP by Analogue Productions, reproduced using the 9 cartridges identified in a previous post plus the Ortofon Anna on the Continuum Caliburn.

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Late, Great Music Visionary Herb Belkin’s Amazing Collection, Including Many of His Own Original Rare & Low-Number MFSL Limited-Edition LPs and Box Sets, Is Set for Auction by Thomaston Place Auction Galleries on June 29
Mike Mettler, Mark Smotroff  |  May 27, 2025

Herb Belkin was one of a kind. A lifetime record executive who was instrumental in taking a onetime field-recording audio company known as Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab (a.k.a. MFSL) to the next, audiophile-grade level in the late 1970s and early 1980s, Belkin (1939-2001) also amassed quite the robust collection of vinyl, CDs, LDs, and other music-related memorabilia over the course of his rich life. A good amount of Belkin’s personal archive from the MFSL universe (and beyond!) is coming up for auction at 11 a.m. EDT on June 29, 2025, through Thomaston Place Auction Galleries on Day 3 of their Summer Splendor auction series. Read Mike Mettler and Mark Smotroff’s combo report to see what rare items from Belkin’s vinyl collection are going up for this auction — and also find out what gear he listened to all of it on back in the day. . .

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Led Zep Files Identified
Michael Fremer  |  Jun 26, 2014
In the Led Zeppelin II review Analogplanet.com included two unidentified 96/24 files containing short "needle drop" excerpts, one sourced from the new 96/24 reissue and one sourced from the Classic Records reissue.

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Led Zep Reunion "Celebration Day" Triple Vinyl Release Pushed Back to February 12th
Michael Fremer  |  Jan 14, 2013
The long awaited triple LP vinyl issue of Led Zeppelin's Celebration Day scheduled for release in December in time for Christmas gift-giving but a no-show will finally be issued January 29th according to our sources.
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Led Zep Reviews Coming Soon
Michael Fremer  |  Jun 13, 2014
Where are the Led Zeppelin reviews?
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