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AnalogPlanet Editor Speaks At Barnes & Noble's August 13th "Vinyl Day" Event
Michael Fremer  |  Aug 17, 2016  |  First Published: Aug 17, 2016  |  23 comments
Saturday August 13th was "Vinyl Day". Barnes & Noble celebrated with events and guest speakers at many of their stores nationwide. Analogplanet editor Michael Fremer was invited to speak at the Paramus, New Jersey store and a looped segment of his DVD "It's a Vinyl World After All" played in all of the stores along with other video material.

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Analogplanet Has Egg on its Record: Academy Records Gets An Apology
Michael Fremer  |  Feb 24, 2014  |  19 comments
We screwed up publishing the "records in the dumpster in front of Academy Records" news item. Yes, we confirmed that the records were there but that's not the real story according to Academy owner Mike Davis who was rightfully pissed. We apologize profusely for our error.
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Features
AnalogPlanet in Switzerland Visits HiFiction (Thales TTs, arms, EMT cartridges)
Michael Fremer  |  Aug 17, 2019  |  First Published: Aug 17, 2019  |  4 comments
Turbenthal, Switzerland based HiFiction precision-manufactures Thales tangential tracking pivoted pick up arms, battery powered turntables and most recently acquired and now manufactures in-house EMT phono cartridges and a new MC step up transformer.

This was designer Micha Huber's original tangential pivoted arm design, Fremer described in his review as looking like "a tonearm balanced on the end of a seal's nose. (Photo: Michael Fremer)

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Interviews
Analogplanet Interviews Producer/Arranger/Musician John Simon (Corrected Introduction)
Michael Fremer  |  Nov 03, 2013  |  5 comments
I drove to record producer and musician John Simon’s Catskill mountaintop home on a gorgeous, unusually mild November 1st day. Simon is best known for producing Songs of Leonard Cohen, BS&T’s Child is Father to the Man, Big Brother and the Holding Company’s Cheap Thrills and of course The Band albums Music From Big Pink, The Band and The Last Waltz
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Analogplanet Interviews Record Industry Pressing Plant Owner Ton Vermeulen
Michael Fremer  |  May 30, 2013  |  1 comments
Before touring the Record Industry pressing plant Analogplanet's Michael Fremer sat down with Ton Vermeulen to get the factory's history and a figurative finger on the pulse of a man who would buy a record pressing plant as the vinyl record lay on its supposed death bed.

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AnalogPlanet Participates in TechDAS and Wilson Audio Event April 9-10 at The Audio Salon
Michael Fremer  |  Apr 05, 2019  |  First Published: Apr 05, 2019  |  7 comments
TechDAS's new "statement" Air Force Zero turntable makes its American debut at The Audio Salon in Santa Monica, California April 9th and 10th at an event hosted by TechDAS and Wilson Audio in The Audio Salon's brand new big system room.

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Analogplanet Radio Archives Finally Up and Running
Michael Fremer  |  Sep 16, 2015  |  First Published: Sep 16, 2015  |  7 comments
WDFU's archiving system is now fully up and running.

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Analogplanet Radio Fifth Show Monday August 31st Streaming Live Here
Michael Fremer  |  Aug 31, 2015  |  First Published: Aug 31, 2015  |  10 comments
Today's analogplanet radio show may be the best yet in music programming terms.
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Analogplanet Radio Folk Revival Show Now Available For Streaming and Downloading
Michael Fremer  |  Nov 09, 2015  |  First Published: Nov 09, 2015  |  8 comments
Today's Analogplanet Radio show broadcast live over the air on WFDU-FM's HD2 radio station and also streamed at WFDU.fm is all about the Folk Music Revival of the late '50s--'60s.

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Analogplanet Radio Gene Clark Tribute Show Now Available For Streaming and Downloading
Michael Fremer  |  Jan 11, 2016  |  First Published: Jan 11, 2016  |  20 comments
David Bowie's death came as a complete shock to everyone this morning. I don't even know where to start other than to write that like John Lennon's death, you wake up to a different, diminished world. This Gene Clark Tribute Show had been prepared prior to leaving for The Consumer Electronics
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