Michael Fremer

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"I'm Appalled at the Way You Treat Your Readership"
Michael Fremer  |  Jan 29, 2014  |  56 comments
Rabbi Fremer says: The Peter, Paul & Mary file comparison story has created quite an uproar. Most of you took it for what it was—an informal but reasonable comparison of two unidentified files that could have been the same or different. 79% of you thought they were different files. 21% though they were the same file posted twice.

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Features
Jazzhaus Presents On 180 Gram Vinyl First Wave of Heretofore Unreleased Post WW II Jazz Recordings
Michael Fremer  |  Jan 29, 2014  |  8 comments
During the late 1940s, ‘50s, ‘60s and ‘70s American jazz musicians and groups toured Europe and the world, usually to greater appreciation and acclaim than they received back home. Sad but true. Some moved overseas where they were treated with greater respect than they received at home but that’s another story.

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News
Masterdisk Offer Lets You Give the Valentine's Day Gift That Keeps on Giving
Michael Fremer  |  Feb 03, 2014  |  6 comments
New York City based Masterdisk has come up with a unique Valentine's Day gift.

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Album Reviews
Rosanne Cash's "River & the Thread" Drives South
Michael Fremer  |  Feb 03, 2014  |  4 comments
Though she's lived for decades in New York City, Rosanne Cash remains connected genetically, spiritually and otherwise to her southern roots. Cash was born in Memphis, Tennessee in 1955 but in 1961 her parents moved to California. Rosanne remained there with her mother Vivian Liberto Cash and three sisters after the couple divorced in 1967.

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Album Reviews
What's Up With Experience Hendrix's Mono "Are You Experienced"?
Michael Fremer  |  Feb 03, 2014  |  16 comments
Comments following the review of the mono reissues of the American version of Are You Experienced? and Axis: Bold As Love indicated some dissatisfaction with the reissue of the U.K. version of the album, also mastered by Bernie Grundman.

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News
Butterscotch Records, Record Retailer Touch Vinyl, Audeze Headphones And UCLA Radio Team to Present Music & Hi Fi Event
Michael Fremer  |  Feb 04, 2014  |  8 comments
(photo by Christopher Vetur, who is forgiven for the fingers on the grooves)

A record label, a record store, a high end headphone manufacturer a college radio station and a well-respected mastering engineer team up with recording artists to present an event touting high quality sound from vinyl records.

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Album Reviews
"The Beatles Live at the BBC": Should You Buy This (Again)?
Michael Fremer  |  Feb 04, 2014  |  14 comments
The BBC did not preserve the master tapes of any of The Beatles BBC appearances. The tape was considered more valuable than the performances recorded therein. That's not exactly a secret. The audio used for the original edition of this set first issued in 1994 came from BBC Transcription Service vinyl, tape copies and radio broadcast tapes provided by fans.

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Album Reviews
Mr. Ho's Orchestrotica Quartet: "Where Here Meets There"
Michael Fremer  |  Feb 05, 2014  |  1 comments
"Mr. Ho" otherwise known as Brian O'Neill has a passion for "exotica" but it would be wrong to call him a trader in nostalgia. Yes, he's clearly a fan of Les Baxter, Martin Denny and especially of the Mexican arranger extraordinaire Esquivel. While I bet he'd be comfortable downing a Mai Tai or two at Trader Vic's, Mr. O'Neill is a thoroughly modern multi-instrumentalist.

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Record Handling and Storage Tips
Has M A Recordings Produced the World's Finest Inner Sleeves?
Michael Fremer  |  Feb 05, 2014  |  10 comments
M A Recordings is best known for its catalog of superbly recorded "world" music. Producer/engineer Todd Garfinkle records at 176.4/24 bit using a precisely spaced pair of custom-made microphones, Cardas cables and a Fostex DV-40 DVD-RAM recorder.

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Album Reviews
M A Recordings Issues a "Two-Fer" LP Set of Renown: "Será Una Noche" and "Segunda"
Michael Fremer  |  Feb 05, 2014  |  3 comments
This new double LP pairs Será una Noche with the appropriately titled follow up Segunda two of M A Recordings’ most popular releases, first on CD then on XRCD and later available as high resolution files. Será una Noche was previously released on vinyl and reviewed on musicangle.com. Naturally vinyl cut from high resolution digital sounds better than the same files decimated to 16 bits. Todd Garfinkle’s simply miked, spacious-sounding 24 bit recordings have earned him a following among audiophiles, even though most of the exotic “world” music Garfinkle prefers to record is anything but traditional audiophile fare.
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