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Michael Fremer | Aug 11, 2016 | 4 comments

The German MPS label has just released five excellent jazz albums originally released in the early 1970s under the supervision of noted German audio journalist and record producer Dirk Sommer. All have been mastered AAA from the original master tapes by mastering engineer Christoph Stickel, who was responsible for the Oscar Peterson box set Exclusively For My Friends.

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Mr. Leefe's Wave Radio Days Numbered! Michael Fremer | Aug 15, 2014 | 15 comments

The outpouring of offers to help Eric Leefe move beyond the "room filling" sound of the Wave radio has been overwhelming, both in the comments beneath the story and in emails.

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Music Angle Announces Complete Site Upgrade! Michael Fremer | Dec 31, 2009 | 0 comments

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Music Direct's Josh Bizar Asked For a Quarantine Album Fave So We Delivered Michael Fremer | May 14, 2020 | 39 comments

Music Direct's Josh Bizar asked if Malachi and I to contribute short reviews to his website feature "Notes From My Listening Room" so we did.

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Music Hall Turntable Sweepstakes Winner Announced! Michael Fremer | Nov 06, 2012 | 5 comments

Jeff Camden is the lucky winner of the Music Hall MMF-7.1 Turntable Sweepstakes!

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Music Matters Returns to 33 1/3 and Some Mono For New Blue Note Reissues Michael Fremer | Dec 18, 2013 | 29 comments

Music Matters, the jazz reissue label best known for its beautifully packaged double 45rpm stereo jazz reissues cut by Kevin Gray from original analog master tapes recently announced a new 33 1/3 Blue Note series. While this may sound like "old news" to some, please listen up!

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Musicangle.com Welcomes Randy Wells! Michael Fremer | Sep 28, 2011 | 0 comments

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Mystery Solved! Michael Fremer | Feb 06, 2006 | 3 comments

Who engineered The Searchers tunes? \"Mystery\" solved!

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Nabisco's New Oreo Turntable Sounds Sweet! Or Tastes Sweet....

Michael Fremer | Dec 04, 2018 | 12 comments

Nabisco recently announced a turntable that plays Oreo cookies. Pop any Oreo cookie onto the platter and it will play a tune. Take a bit out of it and it plays a different tune. Apparently it's been on the market for a few weeks and the company is sold out for now. It sells for $19.99. Sweet deal hopefully back in stock for Christmas.

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NAIM Back In The Turntable Tonearm Game

Michael Fremer | Jun 21, 2021 | 7 comments

Naim Audio launches first-ever turntable plus next-generation Aro tonearm as part of complete Solstice Special Edition package – limited to 500 units.

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Nashville's United Record Pressing Expanding With Sixteen New Presses

Michael Fremer | May 08, 2014 | 18 comments

On Wednesday, May 7th, Nashville's United Record Pressing announced a major plant expansion with the planned addition of 16 additional presses. To meet demand the company currently operated 24/6 snd has been doing so for the past two years.

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Navigating Through Our "Shows" Dropdown Menu

Michael Fremer | Aug 15, 2018 | 5 comments

Your editor hadn't looked in a while at the "drop down" menu under "Shows". When he did he was kind of shocked to see how few shows were there compared to how many have been covered.

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Naxos America To Distribute Berlin Philharmonic Direct to Disc LP Box Set

Michael Fremer | Jan 22, 2017 | 7 comments

The Berlin Philharmonic's Direct-to-Disk Four Brahms Symphony box set currently available for purchase on the orchestra's website store will also be available for purchase in America beginning January 27th, 2017 on the website of Naxos USA.

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Neil Innes Gone Too Soon at 75

Michael Fremer | Dec 30, 2019 | 6 comments

Neil Innes, Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band co-founder, Rutles member and writer of all of that group's hilarious Beatles parodies and Monty Python member/contributor died suddenly and unexpectedly Sunday night, December 29th. According to his family, he'd not been sick and the cause of his passing has of yet not been determined.

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Neil Young "Ditch Trilogy +" LP Box Set Coming For Black Friday RSD. This image is of a Counterfeit!

Michael Fremer | Nov 26, 2014 | 26 comments

The Neil Young master tapes for this second box set were sitting in Chris Bellman's mastering suite last winter when I visited and interviewed Bernie Grundman about the Blue Note reissues, some of which were originally digitized at BGM Mastering and some of which were cut to lacquer by Chris.

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