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Don't Try This on CD! #1 (First in a Series)
Michael Fremer  |  Oct 25, 2017  |  First Published: Oct 25, 2017  |  48 comments
Here's a vinyl transcription at 96/24 of "Rocks Off" from an original Artisan mastered copy of Exile on Main Street. After the band finished their overdubs in Los Angeles they ran the tape over to Artisan for vinyl mastering. This is the version to own.

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News
Don't Worry, I'm Keeping My Day Job!
Michael Fremer  |  Dec 09, 2012  |  17 comments
I was invited to speak at last week's Los Angeles and Orange County Audiophile Society Annual Awards Banquet. I spoke there two years ago and did some audio stand up comedy so this time i figured I'd do something else: sing.
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Album Reviews
Donald Fagen's "The Nightfly" — Mobile Fidelity Does the Digital One-Step
Michael Fremer  |  Jan 03, 2018  |  23 comments
Before getting to the audiofool controversy surrounding the release of a 3M digital recording on expensive vinyl, there's the music. You're smacked in the face on the side openers "I.G.Y." and "New Frontier" (on the original single LP) by the exuberance and sunlit optimism of the "certain fantasies" entertained by "a young man growing up in the remote suburbs" back when science was venerated and not denigrated as it is today in certain circles as a "liberal plot".

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Album Reviews
Donaldson and the 3 Sounds Epitomize the Bluesy Blue Note Sound
Michael Fremer  |  Jun 01, 2008  |  0 comments

Lou Donaldson playfully skids into a few bars of David Rose’s “Holiday For Strings” mid-solo during a cover of the Kelmar/Ruby standard “Three Little Words,” indulging himself in a bit of shtick popular back when jazz could be lighthearted, studious and physical. Sonny Rollins was and is a deft practitioner of the off-handed musical quote as are and were many of the other jazz greats of a bygone era. It’s rarely done today. Jazz is more serious and cerebral, unless it gets goofy as the drummer Matt Wilson sometimes can get.

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News
Doors at 45rpm Coming From Analogue Productions
Michael Fremer  |  Nov 08, 2011  |  0 comments
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AXPONA 2014
Doshi Audio Demos New Cosmetics and OS For Doshi Tubed Phono 3.0
Michael Fremer  |  Apr 28, 2014  |  8 comments
Doshi Audio's $15,995 vacuum tube based phono preamplifier features three inputs, a full complement of remote controllable loading options and even memory to store settings for each of the inputs.
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RMAF 2012
Doshi's Hand Made Alaap Phono Preamplifier
Michael Fremer  |  Oct 12, 2012  |  0 comments
Doshi's Alaap MM/MC hybrid FET/vacuum tube fully balanced phono preamplifier offers 3 inputs configurable for MM or MC.
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Features
Double "Unboxing": Analogue Productions UHQR "Axis: Bold As Love" MONO & Blue Note Review #2
Michael Fremer  |  Mar 08, 2019  |  First Published: Mar 08, 2019  |  22 comments
Here's a double dose for AnalogPlanet readers (and YouTube viewers) who like "unboxing videos": AnalogPlanet editor Michael Fremer unboxes the not yet released Analogue Productions UHQR Clarity Vinyl mono issue of Jimi Hendrix's classic "Axis: Bold As Love" and the second edition of the deluxe "Blue Note Review" box #2"—this one a tribute to jazz drummers, particularly Art Blakey.

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Album Reviews
Doug MacLeod Can Sing the Blues, But Can a Classical Engineer Record it?
Michael Fremer  |  Jul 24, 2013  |  2 comments
Back in 1995 in The Tracking Angle's second issue I wrote of acoustic folk/blues artist Doug MacLeod's performances on his Audioquest LP Come to Find (AQ 1027): "You'll hear a lifetime's accumulation of feelings, experiences and influences in his fingers, in his voice and in his songs...."

MacLeod was 46 at the time. Eighteen years or so later MacLeod is still at it, as he's been since he picked up bass and guitar as a child. He's issued 19 studio albums some live ones and even an instructional DVD. The years have only enhanced and enriched MacLeod's technical and communicative abilities. He's an even more fluid and nuanced guitarist and singer than he was back in 1995.

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AnalogPlanet Radio
Download or Stream Analogplanet Radio’s WFDU.fm Christmas Show Now

Michael Fremer  |  Dec 21, 2015  |  First Published: Dec 21, 2015  |  9 comments
Here are two hours of vinyl-created Christmas music for you to play and share with your loved ones, curated and hosted by Analogplanet editor Michael Fremer.

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