Michael Fremer

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Features
Riva Audio’s One Two Punch: the Turbo X and New S Bluetooth Speakers
Michael Fremer  |  Jan 02, 2016  |  First Published: Jan 02, 2016  |  12 comments
Bluetooth devices are not my beat but when a company making one brings it to a high performance audio show I pay attention.

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News
RIVA's New "One Box" Multi-Room Wand Festival Wireless Speaker Does 106dB
Michael Fremer  |  Jun 29, 2017  |  First Published: Jun 29, 2017  |  4 comments
Admittedly, wireless speakers are not AnalogPlanet's "beat", but portable music is everyone's so a few years ago when RIVA launched a series of Bluetooth speakers and showed up at the old Newport Show to demo them for fussy audiophiles, we took note.

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RMAF 2016
RMAF 2016 Wrap Up
Michael Fremer  |  Oct 15, 2016  |  First Published: Oct 15, 2016  |  5 comments
Despite the hotel renovation problems that closed off most of the left side of the Denver Tech Marriott, 2016's Rocky Mountain Audio Festival went off with few technical glitches.

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RMAF 2019
RMAF 2019 Days Two and Three
Michael Fremer  |  Sep 08, 2019  |  First Published: Sep 08, 2019  |  15 comments
The only question in need of an answer Friday and especially Saturday was "will they show up". Certainly, while the venue was costly for exhibitors, The Gaylord Rockies Resort and Convention Center is a stellar venue for a hi-fi show. The rooms sounded good, in part because of the non-box room layouts, the elevators worked the best of any show I've attended ever and the Internet was by far the fastest.

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RMAF 2019
RMAF 2019 Wrap Up
Michael Fremer  |  Sep 16, 2019  |  First Published: Sep 16, 2019  |  9 comments
This final RMAF video includes the Pro-Ject room, an image from which was inadvertently used in a previous video. Also here is the interesting $1699.99 Direct Drive turntable from Cambridge Audio and a few more analog-y items that will be of interest.

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RMAF 2014
RMAF and Melbourne, Australia Audio Shows Coming Up!
Michael Fremer  |  Oct 08, 2014  |  First Published: Oct 08, 2014  |  9 comments
Though analogplanet will not be conducting or participating in any seminars at this year's Rocky Mountain Audio Festival (not our choice), we'll be covering the analog comings and goings at the first audio show in the world where the buzz will be more from legal marijuana than from bad A.C..

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RMAF 2014
RMAF Day 1 Light on Analog
Michael Fremer  |  Oct 11, 2014  |  First Published: Oct 11, 2014  |  0 comments
RMAF is a big show this year and much more ground must be covered but so far the analog news at the show is that there hasn't really been any. The big news has been headphones and computer audio.

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Album Reviews
Roadmap to Brooklyn's Soul
Michael Fremer  |  Mar 01, 2010  |  0 comments

The indie rocker Sufjan Stevens brings a surprising and delightful buoyancy and sense of wonderment to his orchestral suite commissioned by the Brooklyn Academy of Music to celebrate the 25th anniversary of its “Next Wave” Music Festival. The original debut performances were in November of 2007.

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News
Roasting Chad Kassem This Weekend At L.A. and Orange County Audiophile Society Gala
Michael Fremer  |  Dec 04, 2014  |  First Published: Dec 04, 2014  |  9 comments
That's a photo of Chad Kassem and me from 1997. We go back a long way—to the 1980's actually. He's getting a "lifetime achievement" award on Sunday December 7th from the Los Angeles and Orange County Audiophile Society.

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Album Reviews
Robert Johnson Gets a Centennial Edition
Michael Fremer  |  Feb 01, 2012  |  0 comments

A funny thing happens as you age: time compresses. When I was 20, music from the 1940s seemed old. Robert Johnson was positively pre-historic, and to my ears the sound was equally cobwebbed. Oh, like everyone else, I bought CL 1654 after seeing it on the cover of Bringing It All Back Home and reading one of the breathless cover dissections in a magazine. Back then every cover prop "meant" something. 

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