Michael Fremer

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AudioCon Show Postponed Due to Covid
Michael Fremer  |  Dec 27, 2021  |  First Published: Dec 27, 2021  |  18 comments
Audiocon Los Angeles scheduled for January 14-16th at the Hyatt Regency, Newport Beach, CA today was officially postponed due to Covid Omicron.

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AAA VinylAlbum Reviews
AudioNautes Reissues Chesky Classic O Magnum Mysterium
Michael Fremer  |  Mar 19, 2020  |  4 comments
What better time than now for the all-analog resurrection of this Chesky classic? Easter is three weeks away (though “Oh Great Mystery” is really about Christmas) and home lock down in a dreary time is here now.

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CES 2015
Audionet PAM G2 MM/MC Phono Preamplifier Available With Multitude of Options
Michael Fremer  |  Jan 22, 2015  |  First Published: Jan 22, 2015  |  0 comments

The Audionet PAM G2 from Germany is a single input MM/MC phono preamplifier costing $10,100 but that's just for starters.

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Album Reviews
Audiophile Favorite on CD Gets All-Analog Release
Michael Fremer  |  Apr 01, 2008  |  1 comments

MP3s spread “virally.” Large corporate interests didn’t push them. Vinyl is resurgent for the same reason. It’s a ground up movement. Construct that way and you have a strong foundation for a long-lasting building. That’s what gives hope for vinyl’s long term growth and sustainability.

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Album Reviews
Audiophile Label's Debut Features Natural Sound
Michael Fremer  |  Mar 01, 2008  |  0 comments

This is a weird, squooshy, watery record. The music is soft and squooshy, the lyrics are soft and squooshy. Songwriter Art Halperin’s voice is particularly squooshy, the background musicians play softly and squooshily, and even the veteran recording and mastering engineer Barry Diament has captured it squooshily in real stereo in a pleasingly reverberant church using a pair of carefully placed microphones.

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Cartridge Reviews
AudioQuest 7000 Fe5 MC phono cartridge
Michael Fremer  |  Dec 02, 2007  |  0 comments
You know what's the first thing they teach you in dental school? Don't ever say "Oops!" Even if you stick one of those hooked teeth scrapers through the patient's cheek, you don't say "Oops!" "Don't move!"? Yes. "Oops!"? No. That's the big day-one lesson—and given the cost of medical malpractice insurance today, a damn good one.
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News
August 12th is Vinyl Record Day
Michael Fremer  |  Aug 12, 2015  |  First Published: Aug 12, 2015  |  15 comments
I don't know who is behind this, or its significance but today, August 12th, is "Vinyl Record Day".

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RMAF 2012
Aurorasound VIDA Phono Stage From Japan Uses LCR network for RIAA (Correction!)
Michael Fremer  |  Oct 14, 2012  |  2 comments
In the same room as the Rigid Float tonearm was this new VIDA MM/MC phono stage from Japan that uses an LCR network for RIAA equalization via Lundahl transformers.
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Australia 2014
Australian Audio & AV Show Melbourne, Small But Lively and Well Attended
Michael Fremer  |  Oct 19, 2014  |  First Published: Oct 19, 2014  |  1 comments
The venue for the 3 day Australian Audio & AV Show was the stunning Intercontinental Melbourne The Rialto Hotel a former wool storage facility turned into a glass covered atrium with dual antique brick facades and gothic style glass windows facing and connected to one another via cross-bridges. An elegant ground floor restaurant is on the lower level.

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Features
AV Options ULTRA-HBL 6 Outlet Power Strip with 6 Foot AVO Deep Cryo Cord
Michael Fremer  |  Feb 03, 2019  |  First Published: Feb 03, 2019  |  13 comments
In a modern high-performance audio system running out of A.C. jacks is easy, especially if you have only a single-ganged wall jack. But even with a dual jack you’ve only got four-plug A.C. access. So, what’s the solution? If you believe in power conditioning (which is hardly controversial since every recording studio in the world does, though some audio fools don’t), you can add additional jacks with one of those.

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