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Features
Jim Hagerman's Tips To Remove Noise From Your Vinyl Playback System
Michael Fremer  |  Oct 06, 2017  |  First Published: Oct 06, 2017  |  7 comments
Phono specialist/electronics designer Jim Hagerman of Hagerman Audio Labs recently published a PDF file containing really useful tips for reducing and hopefully removing from your system hum and other forms of phono playback noise pollution.

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News
Jimi Hendrix Experience: Miami Pop Festival First Ever Release Coming on double AAA Vinyl November 5th
Michael Fremer  |  Sep 09, 2013  |  2 comments
Experience Hendrix LLC and Legacy Recordings Division of Sony Music Entertainment announced today the first ever release of Jimi Hendrix Experience's Miami Pop Festival performance of May, 18th 1968 recorded by long-time Hendrix engineer Eddie Kramer. The album will be a double vinyl set mastered all-analog by Bernie Grundman.

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Album Reviews
Jimi Hendrix Mono Mixes Focus The Action
Michael Fremer  |  Mar 21, 2013  |  37 comments
Phil "back to mono" Spector would be happy. Not about his upcoming HBO biopic starring Al Pacino but about the mono craze sweeping the record business if not the country. True its a single bristle sweep, but it's better than no brush at all.
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News
Jimi Hendrix: "Hear My Train A Comin' " American Masters Special on PBS November 5th
Michael Fremer  |  Nov 04, 2013  |  5 comments
Don't miss this two hour PBS special on the life of Jimi Hendrix November 5th on PBS.
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Munich 2013
Joachim Gerhard's New Phono Preamplifier
Michael Fremer  |  May 12, 2013  |  0 comments
Joachim Gerhard is best known as a loudspeaker designer.
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Interviews
Joan Armatrading--The musicangle interview
Michael Fremer  |  Jul 31, 2003  |  1 comments

In a career spanning almost 30 years and 18 albums, Joan Armatrading has established herself as one of the most durable and respected artists in popular music. Her honesty and integrity as both a musician and world citizen are rare in a field that regularly breeds shooting stars.

Born in the West Indies on the island of St. Kitts in 1950, and moving to England when she was 7, Armatrading absorbed both the lilting, sunny rhythms of the Caribbean and the grittiness of post-industrial Birmingham. Her tough, yet vulnerable musical stance has influenced two generations of performers, attracted to her unique, difficult to categorize brand of music.

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AAA Vinyl
Joan Baez's Debut Album Still A Wonder
Michael Fremer  |  Dec 10, 2018  |  10 comments
Joan Baez recorded this Vanguard debut in 1960 at age 19. With her impossibly high and pure quavering voice and matching pristine finger picking guitar, she and this album created a sensation that helped shift the "folk-revival" back to authenticity from the commerciality into which it had drifted. Though while she sounded like a barefoot waif recently arrived from the Appalachian mountains, she was born on Staten Island. Her Mexico-born father who grew up in Brooklyn, the son of a minister, was a Stanford PhD credited with co-inventing the X-ray microscope. Her Scottish mother's father was an Anglican priest.

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AAA VinylNews
Joan Baez's Debut Vanguard LP Coming From Craft, Cut From Original Master Tape
Michael Fremer  |  Jul 29, 2018  |  First Published: Jul 29, 2018  |  8 comments
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Album Reviews
Joan returns after an 8 year recording hiatus
Michael Fremer  |  May 01, 2003  |  0 comments

On her 18th album--and her first in eight years--Joan Armatrading offers a mostly light-hearted exploration of love and affection on Lover's Speak, a set of 14 melodic, hard-rocking, well-crafted songs. Whether leading with her husky, low-end growl or vulnerable, breathy falsetto, the 52-year-old veteran performer's distinctive voice remains remarkably supple--her mid-'70s power barely diminished by time.

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Features
Joe Boyd: collectors choice
Michael Fremer  |  Jun 30, 2003  |  0 comments

Michael Fremer picks favorites from the rich Joe Boyd discography

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