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What I Learned at the First Ever McIntosh Group Convention
Michael Fremer  |  Jul 05, 2016  |  First Published: Jul 05, 2016  |  21 comments
Last week, McIntosh Group Inc. CEO and chief visionary Mauro Grange invited a few hundred guests to Forte Village a luxury resort on the Italian Island of Sardinia for five days of work and fun.

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Amazing Sophia Pfister Update
Michael Fremer  |  Jul 11, 2016  |  First Published: Jul 11, 2016  |  8 comments
The response to the Sophia Pfister story and YouTube video has been incredible.

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AnalogPlanet Radio
Analogplanet Radio’s “Off the Shelf” Show Now Available For Streaming Here and on WFDU.fm
Michael Fremer  |  Jul 11, 2016  |  First Published: Jul 11, 2016  |  5 comments
An IKEA IVAR shelf full of records came tumbling down a few weeks ago. Fortunately no records or people were injured. The shelving was old, the records heavy, and the glue failed that had held together the upright’s cross members. (Photo show a pair of Pryma headphones from Sonus Faber. Beyonce worse a pair in the "Lemonade" video.) I thought I'd monitor the show in style.
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Album Reviews
Simon and Halee Reunited Again Make Musical and Sonic Magic
Michael Fremer  |  Jul 13, 2016  |  15 comments
Reunited with his old friend, producer and engineer Roy Halee, Paul Simon delivers an imaginative and vital record—his most fully realized since Graceland., though its musical complexity and mood more closely resemble Rhythm of the Saints”

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Analog Gear NewsNews
Audio-Technica ART 1000 Cartridge Designer Mitsuo Miyata Interviewed
Michael Fremer  |  Jul 15, 2016  |  First Published: Jul 15, 2016  |  2 comments
Analogplanet reported from Munich's High End 2016 show on Audio-Technics's "evolutionary" new ART1000 phono cartridge.

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Analogplanet Visits Audio-Technica Headquarters, Machida, Japan
Michael Fremer  |  Jul 15, 2016  |  First Published: Jul 15, 2016  |  3 comments
Analogplanet recently visited Audio-Technica’s new Machida, Japan headquarters opened in 2015 to learn more about the fifty four year old company founded by the late Hideo Matsushita, and today run by his son company President Kazuo.

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AAA VinylNews
Check Out Koizumi-San's 45rpm Record Collection
Michael Fremer  |  Jul 16, 2016  |  First Published: Jul 16, 2016  |  5 comments
Yosuke Koizumi, 36, who took over the ART 1000's final production supervision brought some of his 45rpm collection on the second day of my visit...perhaps to assure me that he's way into vinyl and not just doing a "job”.
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How Audio-Technica Builds the ART1000 MC Phono Cartridge (price and tech correction)
Michael Fremer  |  Jul 16, 2016  |  First Published: Jul 16, 2016  |  9 comments
During my visit to Audio-Technica in Machida City, Tokyo, Japan, I was I given a tour of the factory, which mostly produces microphones along with some headphone components. Other than the new ART1000, all of the cartridge manufacturing and assembly takes place either at another factory in Fukui, Japan or at an Audio-Technica owned factory in China.

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AnalogPlanet Radio
Analogplanet Radio’s Second “Off the Shelf” WFDU HD2 Radio Show Now Available For Streaming Here and on WFDU.fm
Michael Fremer  |  Jul 18, 2016  |  First Published: Jul 18, 2016  |  7 comments
Analogplanet.com editor Michael Fremer returned home yesterday from Japan and had planned to run an old show today, but somehow that didn’t seem right.

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Analog Gear News
Levin Introduces Stylish Stylus Brush
Michael Fremer  |  Jul 21, 2016  |  First Published: Jul 21, 2016  |  12 comments
Levin Designs, the German company that manufactures a very stylish wood-handled record cleaning brush recently introduced an equally stylish stylus cleaning brush.

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