Michael Fremer

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CES 2014
820S Power Supply Takes Your Evolution 610LP or 810LP Phono Preamp Over the MOON
Michael Fremer  |  Jan 15, 2014  |  0 comments
That's the claim made by simaudio for the Moon 820S power supply, which can be added Evolution products including the 610LP and 810LP as well as the 650D and 750D DAC/CD transports and the company's 740P preamplifier.
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CES 2014
International CES 2014 Wrap-Up
Michael Fremer  |  Jan 15, 2014  |  0 comments
This year's CES wasn't one for the record books, though plenty of records were played and that was good. From the main convention site to the Venetian to T.H.E. Show at the Flamingo, the show was rather lackluster and attendance was off, mostly due to cold weather flight disruptions.
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Phono Preamp Reviews
Phono Preamplifier Voting Results and Files Identified!
Michael Fremer  |  Jan 15, 2014  |  39 comments
On January 2nd analogplanet.com posted five 96/24 bit files, each containing the same minute’s worth of John Williams’ “Liberty Fanfare” performed by the National Symphonic Winds conducted by Lowell Graham excerpted from the album Winds of War and Peace originally issued in 1988 on Wilson Audio Specialties Records (W-8823) and used with permission.

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Can I Have My Money Back?
"Geek Squad" Road-Rage Madness!
Michael Fremer  |  Jan 17, 2014  |  47 comments
So I'm driving back from Washington D.C. where I'd gone to install an Etna cartridge in an AMG Viella turntable for a friend. His politics are 180 degrees diametrically opposed to mine. In fact, he's a consultant to "those people". But you know what? Politics stops for me at the lead-in groove.

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Phono Preamp Reviews
Second P.S. Audio NuWave Phono Converter Brings Some Sonic Relief
Michael Fremer  |  Jan 18, 2014  |  7 comments
A second NuWave Phono Converter sample arrived the other day and after swapping the two back and forth a few things became sonically obvious. One is that the second sample was not as hard, bright and mechanical-sounding as the first one. And the other was that like the first sample, the second NuWave's lower midrange and bass were less than fully fleshed out.
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Vote
Same File? Does "A" Sounds Better? Or Does "B" sounds Better?
Michael Fremer  |  Jan 21, 2014  |  36 comments
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News
New York City's 92nd Street "Y" Celebrates 50 Years of The Beatles in the USA
Michael Fremer  |  Jan 22, 2014  |  5 comments
Peter Asher, Donovan, Billy J. Kramer and others will take part in an evening of intimate conversation on Thursday February 6th, 2014. 50 years earlier to the day The Beatles were preparing to leave London for their first visit to America. They arrived at New York's Idlewild Airport to thousands of screaming fans and held a now famous press conference.
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News
Ending the Peter, Paul & Mary Mystery!
Michael Fremer  |  Jan 23, 2014  |  65 comments
Thousands have read the story and more than one hundred of you have voted. No doubt had the story run longer, more would have participated but there's no need to continue because the results already speak for themselves and in fact did so early on.

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Turntable Reviews
The Pro-Ject Xtension10 Turntable— More Than a "Lifestyle" Product!
Michael Fremer  |  Jan 25, 2014  |  14 comments
Just as moving downhill is easier than going up, scaling down an expensive design is far easier than building upon a modest one.Yet Pro-Ject, which began in1990 with a homely, grey/black Soviet-era Czech Republic-made “people’s ‘table”, has managed quite well to both upgrade its budget offerings and to produce mid-priced ‘tables of distinction.
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Can I Have My Money Back?
Why I Hate The Felice Brothers' Cover of "This Magic Moment" in the Dell TV Commercial
Michael Fremer  |  Jan 26, 2014  |  36 comments
Even if you are an infrequent TV viewer, chances are you've seen the Dell commercial that uses as a music bed a cover of the great Doc Pomus/Mort Shuman song "This Magic Moment" originally performed by Ben E. King and The Drifters and later covered by Jay and The Americans among others. The only ads running more frequently are the ones that say "your erectile dysfunction is a matter of blood flow".
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