Michael Fremer

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Have We Opened a Digital Can of Worms?
Michael Fremer  |  Sep 23, 2012  |  19 comments
Have we opened a digital can of worms recommending using a USB microscope to set SRA (Stylus Rake Angle)?
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Have You Seen Much of This On Your New Records?
Michael Fremer  |  Sep 09, 2018  |  First Published: Sep 09, 2018  |  46 comments
There seems to be an epidemic of this kind of radial scratch marks on new vinyl from various pressing plants. Have you noticed it? Just curious. This is a brand new record pressed overseas at a well-respected pressing plant, but I recently got same from an equally well-respected domestic source.

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Album Reviews
Hawkins at 53 Gets It Done, Probably On The West Coast
Michael Fremer  |  Aug 01, 2005  |  1 comments

This simple 1957 session featuring the mellow-toned tenor sax player backed by Oscar Peterson's trio (bassist Ray Brown and guitarist Herb Ellis) plus drummer Alvin Stoller doesn't set off any sparks but like a good Cognac, it goes down easy and brings great warmth and much pleasure, both musically and sonically.

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Album Reviews
Hawkins Solo Session Now Even Better On Vinyl
Michael Fremer  |  Feb 01, 2008  |  0 comments

This set, recorded a few weeks shy of fifty years of when I’m writing this stars a 51 year old Hawkins leading a well- recorded session date featuring J.J. Johnson, Hank Jones, Ocar Pettiford, Jo Jones, Barry Galbraith (guitar) and Idrees Sulieman. I had no idea who Barry Galbraith was until I read the liner notes, so I’ve listed his instrument in case you’re unfamiliar as well. Perhaps I’m just showing my ignorance. If you don’t know the others and what they play, you’re showing yours, though trumpeter Idrees Sulieman is not exactly a household name now and wasn’t even one in 1957.

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Can I Have My Money Back?
HD Vinyl is An Exciting Concept But It's Last Year's "News"
Michael Fremer  |  Apr 13, 2018  |  First Published: Apr 13, 2018  |  17 comments
Last May, 2017 AnalogPlanet published a story about HD Vinyl complete with an interview conducted in Vienna with the inventor of the process.

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HD Vinyl Update: A Planned 7" 45rpm Record "Some Time Mid 2019"?
Michael Fremer  |  Apr 26, 2019  |  First Published: Apr 26, 2019  |  9 comments
"Making Vinyl" Berlin is a week away (May 2nd and 3rd). AnalogPlanet editor Michael Fremer will attend and moderate a few interesting panels. No doubt there will be news and an update on the progress being made to realize the promise of HD Vinyl. However, at last fall's "Making Vinyl" in Detroit there was HD Vinyl news that got "caught in the cracks" and was never published.

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HDtracks Adds Vinyl Store
Michael Fremer  |  Nov 17, 2014  |  First Published: Nov 17, 2014  |  11 comments
Jimmy Durante (some younger readers may need to look him up) used to say "Everybody's gotta get into the act!" and when it comes to vinyl, he was correct! It's sold at Whole Foods (which because of some of the customers I encounter there I like to call "A-Whole Foods") at Urban Outfitters (along with Crosley "groove chewers"), Target and other unlikely vinyl venues.

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HDTracks Gets Rolling Stones Catalog In High Resolution Digital!
Michael Fremer  |  Mar 01, 2011  |  2 comments
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He Just Found Us!
Michael Fremer  |  Feb 28, 2011  |  1 comments
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He Liked the "Tea" Too
Michael Fremer  |  Aug 08, 2011  |  0 comments
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