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Kickstarter Vinyl Project A Bit More Than 25% Funded
Michael Fremer  |  Nov 09, 2015  |  First Published: Nov 09, 2015  |  24 comments
"Hearing is Deceiving", the vinyl project designed to find out if we can distinguish between an AAA and an ADA production is now a bit more than 25% funded with seventeen days to go.

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Kickstarter Vinyl Project Now Funded (Revised Story)
Michael Fremer  |  Oct 06, 2014  |  First Published: Oct 06, 2014  |  33 comments
Here's producer/saxophonist Jerome Sabbagh's Kickstarter campaign message:
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Album Reviews
Kieran Hebden's Bleeps, Blops and Squiggles Mesmerize
Michael Fremer  |  Aug 01, 2006  |  0 comments

This album of analog (or analog sounding) bleeps, blops and buzzes, backed by a drum track apparently created from real skins by Mr. Hebden, has an organic, hypnotic, soothing quality that many will find attractive.

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Kinks Arthur.... 50th Anniversary Box Set Drops October 25th on BMG
Michael Fremer  |  Jul 30, 2019  |  First Published: Jul 30, 2019  |  11 comments
One of the greatest of all Kinks albums—and a concept album about emigrating from England to Australia that still resonates, Arthur Or The Decline And Fall of The British Empire gets the l
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Kinks and Klem Kadiddlehopper?
Michael Fremer  |  Apr 04, 2013  |  8 comments
The Dorsey Brothers, Tommy and Jimmy saw the rock'n'roll handwriting on the wall back in 1956. The big banders invited Elvis Presley onto their television show. It was Elvis's first TV appearance and it created a sensation.

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KINKS KUT FROM ORIGINAL PYE MASTER TAPES!
Michael Fremer  |  Jun 09, 2015  |  First Published: Jun 09, 2015  |  17 comments
It's official: The recently released Sanctuary Kinks albums were mastered by Kevin Gray from the original Pye master tapes. Gray just got permission to reveal this.

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Features
Kinks Remastered to SACD: The Inside Story
Michael Fremer  |  Jan 31, 2005  |  0 comments

Back in 1998 KOCH licensed both the RCA and Arista Kinks catalogs from BMG. Ray Davies supervised and approved the transfer from two-track analog masters, which was accomplished using an Ampex ATR102 directly feeding a Pacific Microsonics Model One A/D converter running at 88.2k/24 bit PCM (bonus tracks were sourced from Ray's DAT tapes). The files were sent to Bob Ludwig's Gateway Mastering for final mastering, including HDCD encoding.

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NewsRecord Cleaning Tips
Kirmuss Audio Versus The LAST Factory! Gloves On! Rabbits Off!
Michael Fremer  |  Sep 25, 2019  |  First Published: Sep 25, 2019  |  81 comments
If you've watched the "RMAF Wrap-up" video on the AnalogPlanet YouTube channel (which today hit 30,000 subscribers), you no doubt remember the surprise "name check" encounter with record restoration expert Charles Kirmuss. It wasn't a "set up". I happened to walk into the room where he was restoring records for attendees as he talked about LAST Record Preservative and said "unlike Michael Fremer who...."—well watch the video below.

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Kitchen Accessories For Vinyl Fanatics
Michael Fremer  |  Apr 05, 2014  |  5 comments
Okay, this is way out in left field…...
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Munich 2014
KLAUDIO Intros "Record Changer" For KD-CLN-LP200 Ultrasonic Record Cleaning Machine (Video Enhanced)
Michael Fremer  |  May 16, 2014  |  First Published: May 16, 2014  |  5 comments
South Korea based KLAUDIO (as in "Claudio" not "KL Audio") demoed a new add-on "record changer" mechanism for its KD-CLN-LP200 ultrasonic cleaning machine.
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