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Michael Fremer | Aug 31, 2009 | 1 comments

I first spotted Audia Flight's exquisite-looking two-box phono preamplifier ($6100) at last year's Hi-End show in Munich, and now that Musical Sounds is importing Audia Flight gear, a review of the Phono seemed a good idea. I know nothing about Audia Flight or the designer, or what Italian audiophiles think of them, but the more time I spent with the versatile, exquisitely built Phono, the more I liked everything about it.

Set-Up Accessory Reviews

Audio Additives Digital Stylus Force Gauge

Michael Fremer | Mar 02, 2014 | 38 comments

Looking for a good digital stylus force gauge? Once upon time one from Winds cost $800 and was good only to a single digit. Today they can be had good to 3 decimal points for as little as $79 like this Audio Additive by Musicdirect®. Like most today it is made in China.

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Phono Preamp Reviews

Audio Alchemy's High Performance PPA-1 MM/MC Phono Preamplifier Michael Fremer | views-field-created"> Oct 05, 2016 | First Published: Oct 05, 2016 | 6 comments

Audio Alchemy was one of the premier “go to” budget priced audio companies of the late 1980’s through the 1990s, at which point it went out of business for reasons having little to do with the quality of its products.

reasonably priced, high performance gear, the company also issued some truly high tech products like the Digital Transmission Interface Pro32, which included an I2S interface that produced a low jitter connection between a transport the company also made that had an I2S output and DAC.

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RMAF 2015

Audio Alchemy's Peter Madnick Introduces New Moderately Priced Phono Preamplifier At RMAF 2015 Michael Fremer | views-field-created"> Oct 02, 2015 | First Published: Oct 03, 2015 | 7 comments

Veteran audio designer Peter Madnick introduced at RMAF 2015 a new, moderately priced MC phono preamplifier.

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AXPONA 2016

Audio Alchemy's Peter Madnick Provides Tour of Great Sounding, Moderately Priced System Michael Fremer | views-field-created"> Apr 19, 2016 | First Published: Apr 19, 2016 | 7 comments

Industry veteran/designer Peter Madnick shows analogplanet.com the latest from the resurrected Audio Alchemy electronics line. Madnick was also responsible for the original 1990's era Audio Alchemy line.

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News

Audio Fidelity Goes "Live" With New LP Release Schedule! Michael Fremer | views-field-created"> Feb 09, 2009 | 0 comments

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Album Reviews

Audio Fidelity Reissues Nilsson's "Standards" Album Michael Fremer | views-field-created"> Jul 01, 2011 | 0 comments

The iconoclastic singer Harry Nilsson lived hard and mostly sang softly. His Los Angeles debauchery with his pal John Lennon and the resulting outcast behavior including being tossed with Lennon from The Troubadour for heckling The Smothers Brothers is well known, as are many of the songs he wrote, including "One" covered by Three Dog Night and "Cuddly Toy" covered by The Monkees.

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Audio Fidelity's Marshall Blonstein Calls It "A Side"

Michael Fremer | Jun 01, 2018 | First Published: Jun 01, 2018 | 6 comments

Marshall Blonstein, owner/founder of both the DCC Compact Classics and Audio Fidelity labels and a record industry veteran revealed in a recent email that he was retiring and closing down the Audio Fidelity label (the photo L-R is of Blonstein, AnalogPlanet editor Michael Fremer and legendary mastering engineer Kevin Gray taken during the TRON double LP mastering sessions).

Record Cleaning Fluid Reviews

Audio Intelligent Introduces "Ultra-Low Foaming Formula No. 27"

Michael Fremer | Mar 02, 2021 | First Published: Mar 02, 2021 | 27 comments

Audio Intelligent recently introduced "Ultra-Low Foaming Formula No.27" enzymatic record cleaning fluid designed specifically for vacuum-type cleaning machines that include a fluid dispensing feature.

News

Audio Legend Harry Pearson Passes Away

Michael Fremer | Nov 05, 2014 | First Published: Nov 05, 2014 | 71 comments

Harry Pearson The Absolute Sound's founder and the originator of the term "high end audio" and arguably the industry itself, died November 4th, 2014 at his home in Sea Cliff, NY. He was 77. The cause of death has yet to be determined but most likely he suffered either a stroke or a heart attack. Pearson was in frail health following a series of heart problems and a broken hip suffered after a fall.

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