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Manila HiFi Show November 8 and 9
Michael Fremer  |  Oct 31, 2014
The annual Manila HiFi Show takes place at the Dusit Thani Hotel this November 8th and 9th. It's difficult to believe a full year has passed since analogplanet editor Michael Fremer attended the show but it has. Hopefully this year The Philippines will be spared a typhoon!

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Manila Turntable Set-Up Seminar Coverage
Michael Fremer  |  Nov 21, 2013
Coverage of Manila turntable set-up seminar
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Marantz Launches NA-11S1 Reference Class Network Audio Player and USB DAC
Michael Fremer  |  Mar 31, 2013
What's a story like this doing in an analog space? While it's a news item covering a new digital product, I was honored to be the only American audio writer invited to the launch so while the piece will be published in Stereophile, I decided to post it here as well. I hope you find at least the history of Marantz interesting, but also the concept of downloading DSD files from the Internet and playing them back from a computer. In any case, I think of music services like Spotify and Pandora the "Evatone sheets" of our digital era. You can use them to audition new music before dropping your hard earned cash on the vinyl version.—Ed.

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Marc Aubort Interview
Michael Fremer  |  Aug 15, 2011
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Mark Knopfler’s Comprehensive The Studio Albums 2009-2018 180g 9LP Box Set Arrives October 7
Mike Mettler  |  Aug 08, 2022

In this case, going down the road wherever leads directly to your turntable. To wit: Mark Knopfler’s The Studio Albums 2009-2018, a 180g 9LP box set, will be released on October 7, 2022 by UMe/EMI. Read on for more details about who mastered it, who cut it, and what’s on it. . .

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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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Mark Ronson’s Night People Balances His Love of Vinyl and Analog Culture With Insider Tales About Being an NYC Club DJ in the 1990s
Julie Mullins  |  Sep 19, 2025

It’s been a minute since we’ve done regular book reviews here on AP, but now we’re back on the reading track. First up, Julie Mullins gives her impressions of Mark Ronson’s Night People: How to Be a DJ in ’90s New York City, a new 256-page hardcover book that shares many tales about the Grammy-winning producer/songwriter/musician’s love of vinyl and analog culture, not to mention covering his titular days as a notable NYC DJ in the ’90s. . .

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Masterdisk Offer Lets You Give the Valentine's Day Gift That Keeps on Giving
Michael Fremer  |  Feb 03, 2014
New York City based Masterdisk has come up with a unique Valentine's Day gift.

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Mastering Engineer Bob Ludwig Recipient of dCS's First Legends Award
Michael Fremer  |  Oct 20, 2019
At a ceremony in New York City during the 147th AES (Audio Engineering Society) Convention, mastering legend Bob Ludwig was given the first dCS Legends Awards. The company, best know for its line of SACD player/DACs and streaming audio DACs, has already announced upcoming recipients, many of whom were at the event to congratulate Ludwig.

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Mastering Engineer Jon Astley on The Who 14 LP Box Set Coming From MCA
Michael Fremer  |  Sep 25, 2012
UMG/MCA recently announced a new 14 LP The Who studio recordings box set featuring 11 titles (Tommy and Quadrophenia were double LPs).
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Mastering in the Time of Covid-19
Michael Fremer  |  Apr 29, 2020
"Tone Poet" Joe Harley sent this photo taken today at a Kevin Gray mastering session. Analog life goes on at Cohearent Audio during the Pandemic.

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Mat Test Will Include Original 96/24 File As "Baseline" Reference
Michael Fremer  |  Jun 06, 2014
Thanks to an analogplanet.com reader's excellent suggestion, the blind mat test will include the original 96/24 file from which the Chasing the Dragon LP was cut. Recording engineer and label owner Mike Valentine was kind enough to send the original file of the Vivaldi "Concerto For Two Mandolins" that was used for the mat recordings.

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Mats Unmasked!
Michael Fremer  |  Jul 21, 2014
Thanks to all who downloaded and listened to the same track played using 8 different mats. That's a great deal of heavy lifting, hopefully made somewhat lighter by Mike Valentine's excellent Decca tree recording of a nimble performance of Vivaldi's "Concerto For 2 Mandolins". I hope you downloaded and enjoyed the "gift" track too.

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Meet Sophia Pfister
Michael Fremer  |  Jun 10, 2016
Instead of the usual "song and dance", the email refreshingly got directly to the point: "Will you review my record?". I replied, "Send it and if I like it I will."

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Mercury "Living Presence" Reissue Series Cut From 3-track Analog Masters From Analogue Productions
Michael Fremer  |  Oct 26, 2018
Tom Fine, re-mastering producer of the first two soon-to-be-released Analogue Productions Mercury "Living Presence" titles talks with AnalogPlanet editor Michael Fremer about the all-analog mastering process, with lacquers cut by Ryan K. Smith from the original 3 track master tapes.

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