Michael Fremer

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Album Reviews
Supergroup Produces Retro-Cool Rock Album
Michael Fremer  |  Jul 01, 2010  |  0 comments

This “supergroup” trio side project featuring Foo Fighter Dave Grohl, Queens of the Stone Age Joshua Homme and Led Zep bassist/keyboardist John Paul Jones is sure to please lovers of classic rock and heavy metal, not to mention Led Zep fans of all ages. They’ve even got a logo.

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Album Reviews
Supergroup Put the Pedal to the Metal
Michael Fremer  |  Dec 01, 2010  |  0 comments

It's an unacceptable prejudice and this review has nothing to do with me, but I admit to having had a problem with Lionel Hampton because he was a Nixon supporter. Isn't that ridiculous? I mean having a problem with it, not that Hamp supported tricky Dick. His politics are his of course, but this prejudice took hold during the 1970s.

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Munich 2017
Supersense, Vienna  — A Store For All Senses
Michael Fremer  |  May 23, 2017  |  First Published: May 23, 2017  |  4 comments
AnalogPlanet.com takes a slight detour from High End Munich show coverage for this video—have faith, it's got a strong vinyl angle.

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RMAF 2013
Suspiro Phono Preamp From Odyssey Made in USA Includes Upgrade Path
Michael Fremer  |  Oct 13, 2013  |  0 comments
Odyssey's new Suspiro MM/MC phono preamplifier is based upon two independent gain stages using wide-bandwidth FET op-amps and hand-matched to less than 0.5% in the RIAA network. Gain is switchable 40, 46, 54 and 60dB. Loading via dip switches is 50-100-1K-47kohms.

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RMAF 2014
Sutherland Engineering Launches "Spatial Edition" MC Phono Preamplifier at RMAF
Michael Fremer  |  Oct 10, 2014  |  First Published: Oct 10, 2014  |  0 comments
Sutherland Engineering's Ron Sutherland entered the high performance audio market years ago with a costly phono preamplifier and an equally costly preamplifier that used a motion-sensing remote control. Since then Mr. Sutherland has ramped down the price points to more mainstream his products. Until now.

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RMAF 2015
Sutherland Engineering's New Argentum Phono Preamplifier Takes Signal Purity and Adjustability to new Extremes
Michael Fremer  |  Oct 05, 2015  |  First Published: Oct 05, 2015  |  12 comments
Ron Sutherland walked me through the new Sutherland Engineering monoblock Argentum MM/MC phono preamplifier.

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Phono Preamp Reviews
Sutherland PhD MC phono preamplifier
Michael Fremer  |  May 15, 2005  |  0 comments
The $3000 moving-coil (MC) PhD, available from Chad Kassem's Acoustic Sounds operation, is a monumental achievement that, for me, sets new standards for the cleanness and transparency possible in a phono preamp—and I've had a lot of experience with phono preamps.
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Album Reviews
Suzanne Vega Reaches Middle Age and a New Artistic Peak
Michael Fremer  |  Apr 01, 2008  |  1 comments

At a time when the shortsighted have all but declared the album form either dead or dying, Suzanne Vega's latest one (issued on CD July, 2007 and more recently on vinyl by Classic Records) is a cool reminder that putting together a coherent program of well-produced (and carefully recorded) tunes remains a most satisfying musical art form. The album won a well-deserved Grammy, this past February (2008), for "Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical."

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Analog Gear NewsNews
Swedish Analog Technologies Announces New Pick Up Arm Lineup
Michael Fremer  |  Feb 20, 2018  |  First Published: Feb 20, 2018  |  5 comments
SAT (Swedish Analog Technologies) announced today two new pick up arms, the LM and CF1 series that replace the original SAT arm, now discontinued after a successful run of 70—an impressive number considering the arm's cost of more than $30,000.

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Analog Gear NewsNewsNY Audio Show 2013
Swedish Analog Technologies Announces Two New Pickup Arms for 2018
Michael Fremer  |  Oct 16, 2017  |  First Published: Oct 16, 2017  |  10 comments
Swedish Analog Technologies today announced two new pickup arms to be introduced "...in the first quarter of 2018". The photo accompanying this news item is of the original SAT Pickup Arm because no photos of the new arms were provided at this time. In fact, this photo taken from the company's website is of an earlier version than the one currently in production.

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