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AXPONA 2016

Jolida Introduces New Jim Fosgate Designed Foz XT-R Crosstalk Reducer

Michael Fremer | Apr 26, 2016 | First Published: Apr 26, 2016 | 8 comments

Easily the most unusual analog-related product introduced at AXPONA 2016 was Jim Fosgate's Foz XT-R crosstalk reducer built and marketed by electronics manufacturer Jolida..

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Playback Accessory Reviews Set-Up Accessory Reviews

Jolida’s Foz XT-R Crosstalk Reduction Device Michael Fremer | views-field-created"> Aug 26, 2018 | First Published: Aug 26, 2018 | 11 comments

Minimizing inter-channel crosstalk maximizes channel separation and helps produce a maximally wide and balanced soundstage. Azimuth is a critical cartridge set-up parameter.

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physically making sure the head shell is parallel to the platter or setting cantilever perpendicularity using a mirror, does not insure correct azimuth setting just as an arm parallel to the record does not assure correct SRA/ VTA.

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CES 2015

Jonathan Monks Shows You the New Keith Monks Discovery One Mini Record Cleaning Machine Michael Fremer | views-field-created"> Jan 20, 2015 | First Published: Jan 20, 2015 | 1 comments

Jonathan Monks gave me a "tour" of the new, limited edition Keith Monks Discovery One Mini record cleaning machine.

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Joni Mitchell First Four LP Box June 25th From Rhino Celebrates Blue 's 50th Anniversary Michael Fremer | views-field-created"> Apr 08, 2021 | First Published: Apr 08, 2021 | 21 comments

Rhino releases on June 25th a box set containing re-mastered versions of Joni Mitchell's first four Reprise albums (1968-71). The date is the 3 days after the 50th anniversary of the original release of Blue, which many fans consider a pivotal album in her recording career and one of the most thoughtful musical expressions of love lost ever. It was also her final Reprise release. Blue, like albums by Nick Drake and a few others from that era continue to be rediscovered by succeeding generations of fans and musicians alike.

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Joni Mitchell Sounds Off on Digital Recording Michael Fremer | views-field-created"> Apr 07, 2015 | First Published: Apr 07, 2015 | 21 comments

In case you missed this Billboard Magazine interview with Joni Mitchell, conducted upon the release of her 4 CD retrospective box set Love Has Many Faces, A Quartet, A Ballet, Waiting to Be Danced.

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AAA Vinyl Album Reviews

Joni Mitchell's Hejira Reissued AAA on 180g Vinyl Michael Fremer | views-field-created"> Nov 30, 2014 | 47 comments

Not that it’s any of my business, but I was disappointed reading that Joni Mitchell had nixed Taylor Swift’s playing her in a biopix. “All you’ve got is a girl with high cheekbones” she’s reported to have said.

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Album Reviews

Josie Cotton Throws the Kitsch In Synch Michael Fremer | views-field-created"> Jul 01, 2010 | 1 comments

Josie Cotton, best known for her “controversial” 1980 song “Johnny Are You Queer” that turned into a minor international phenomenon while outraging evangelical types and has a back story worthy of a mini-novel, returns with a high low-concept album. You can search the internet for the backstory and watch her perform the song on YouTube.

Album Reviews

Judith Owen's "Somebody's Child" Will Move You

Michael Fremer | Mar 09, 2017 | 4 comments

It doesn't slight to this well-produced, thoroughly engaging record to write that singer/songwriter/pianist/raconteur Judith Owen is best experienced live in concert.

Album Reviews

Just Say No to Rhino's Yes Album on Vinyl

Michael Fremer | Aug 01, 2003 | 2 comments

Yes

Jon Anderson was always busy exhorting listeners to “Get up!,” “Look around,!” “See yourself!,” etc. His lyrics feel like a Tony Robbins self-improvement course (“Take the straight and stronger course to the corner of your life,”), but Anderson and co. were doing it first and setting the self-help lectures to bombastic musical constructions. Because of Anderson’s lyrical themes, Yes could be preachy, pretentious, mechanical and cold, but you had to respect the musical craft—especially the rhythmic suppleness (it was smart to unleash Bill Bruford) and the group’s sophisticated manipulation of dynamics.

Album Reviews

k.d. Lang Produces Her Blue

Michael Fremer | Jan 01, 2009 | 0 comments

The timbre may have deepened, though almost imperceptibly, but caressing the soft, melodic waves of this set of tidily drawn, dreamy reveries, k.d. langï¿½s voice remains a magnificent, mellifluous instrument.

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