Michael Fremer

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Can Hagerman Audio Labs' Humbucker Put a Grado Cartridge On Your Rega Turntable?

Michael Fremer | Jul 13, 2020 | First Published: Jul 13, 2020 | 11 comments

Of course you can put a Grado cartridge on your Rega turntable without Hagerman Audio Labs' permission or help, but because of where Rega positions the motors on its turntables, doing that comes at a cost: hum.

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RMAF 2016

Can Jam Headphone "Big Top" at RMAF 2016 Michael Fremer | views-field-created"> Oct 10, 2016 | First Published: Oct 10, 2016 | 3 comments

AnalogPlanet doesn't cover headphones. For the best coverage go to our "sister" publication Innerfidelity.

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Cartridge Reviews

Can Putting a Jico V15xMR Stylus Replacement Turn a Shure M97xE Into a V15xMR? Michael Fremer | views-field-created"> Apr 07, 2014 | 47 comments

What happens when you install in a $70 M97xE a $179 Jico V15xMR stylus replacement?

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Record Cleaning Tips

Can Steam Save This Record? Michael Fremer | views-field-created"> Oct 02, 2013 | 17 comments

Back in April a reader sent me a box of flood-damaged records. I said then that I would try to resurrect them. More than 7000 people read that post and have been waiting with baited breath for almost six months!

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Record Cleaning Tips

Can These Records Be Saved? Michael Fremer | views-field-created"> Apr 23, 2013 | 37 comments

An Analogplanet.com reader "lost" much of his collection due to water damage.

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Ask Mikey

Can You Tell Me How Master Tapes Are/Were Usually Handled Back in "the Day"? Michael Fremer | views-field-created"> Aug 14, 2018 | First Published: Aug 14, 2018 | 25 comments

A reader asks:

master tapes are/were usually handled back in the day? The reason I ask is because there are several master tapes floating around on the internet and people are offering reel to reel copies of them for sale (photo from back in "the day")

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Album Reviews

Canadian Collective's 2002 LP Is Not The Group's Latest, But It's Worthy of Your Attention Anyway Michael Fremer | views-field-created"> Apr 01, 2006 | 0 comments

You’ll just have to get over the squashed, harmonically truncated and bleached sound that infects much of this musically outstanding album from 2002 (they’ve released more albums since) from this 15 member Canadian collective if you have any hope of enjoying it.

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Canadian Company's New Turntable/Arm Combo Sports Wood

Michael Fremer | Jan 12, 2013 | 3 comments

Canadian firm Tri-Art Audio introduced the "Bam Bam" turntable and tonearm, to be distributed in America by Avatar Acoustics.

Album Reviews

Canadian Folk Rocker Returns With Her Most Varied Set Yet

Michael Fremer | Jun 01, 2008 | 0 comments

The Canadian folk/rocker’s vital third album opens with an ambitious, though somewhat out of character tune featuring a melodic line and driving rhythmic pulse reminiscent of something that might have been penned by Death Cab For Cutie’s Ben Gibbard, though the vocal is unmistakably Edwards’: a feathery, vulnerable-yet-stoic tone fitted to unadorned, precise phrasing that can comfortably draw out a one syllable word the length of a football field.

AAA Vinyl News

Candid Records Relaunch Features 5 Classics Cut From Tape by Bernie Grundman

Michael Fremer | Mar 19, 2022 | First Published: Mar 19, 2022 | 18 comments

Candid Records, founded in 1960 with Nat Hentoff as A&R director produced a catalog of great jazz and blues releases that also featured superb sound. A label relaunch was announced last week with 5 exceptionally fine titles leading the way, mastered by Bernie Grundman. The press release didn't specify if BG mastered from tape or from hi-res files so before posting this I asked the publicist to clarify.

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