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qobuz Offers Free Hi-Res Downloads During Coronavirus Confinement
Michael Fremer  |  Apr 28, 2020  |  First Published: Apr 28, 2020  |  5 comments
Hi-res streaming service qobuz just announced a now through May 15th offer of 21 CD resolution and hi-res titles you can download free. The music includes classical, jazz and "world".

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Mack Avenue Music Group Webstore Event Distributes 100% of Sales Directly to Artists
Michael Fremer  |  Apr 29, 2020  |  First Published: Apr 29, 2020  |  0 comments
Mack Avenue Music Group launches an all-sales-go-directly to-the artist event starting Thursday, April 30th, which is also International Jazz Day, running through May 3rd. Mack Avenue Senior Director of A&R Will Wakefield says, "Almost everyone I know—musicians, managers, venue owners and booking agents—are facing unemployment or worse for an unknown amount of time. We are keenly aware of what that means and wants to be there to help in whatever way we can and I think this is good start."

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Can I Have My Money Back?
The New York Times Covers The Electric Recording Company
Michael Fremer  |  Apr 29, 2020  |  First Published: Apr 29, 2020  |  24 comments
The print edition of today's New York Times includes an article titled "The Vinyl? It's Pricey. The Sound? Otherworldly", written about The Electric Recording Company by music critic Ben Sisario. To prep for the article he visited, bringing with him an ERC mastered Johanna Martzy Bach Violin Sonatas recording and a newly mastered CD version produced by Warner Music Korea. He wanted to compare on the kind of system ERC buyers might own. He also visited The Electric Recording Company in London.

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Mastering in the Time of Covid-19
Michael Fremer  |  Apr 29, 2020  |  First Published: Apr 29, 2020  |  7 comments
"Tone Poet" Joe Harley sent this photo taken today at a Kevin Gray mastering session. Analog life goes on at Cohearent Audio during the Pandemic.

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AXPONA 2020 CANCELED!
Michael Fremer  |  Apr 30, 2020  |  First Published: Apr 30, 2020  |  10 comments
AXPONA 2020 has been canceled. CEO and Founder of show organizer JD Events just released the following letter:

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Electric Recording Company To Issue Sonny Rollins' "Way Out West" in Stereo
Michael Fremer  |  May 01, 2020  |  First Published: May 01, 2020  |  71 comments
The Electric Recording Company announced today that it would release a limited edition version of Sonny Rollins' Way Out West cut as always using the original master tape.

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Victor Goldstein R.I.P.
Michael Fremer  |  May 05, 2020  |  First Published: May 05, 2020  |  11 comments
Few analogPlanet readers know the name but no doubt some do and I feel compelled to say a few words about my friend Victor Goldstein, shown here with Stereophile writer Jonathan Scull probably back in the late '80s when Victor was working with speaker manufacturer B&W (photo used without permission but I'm sure J10 will not mind). Goldstein passed away last night, a victim of the Covid-19 Pandemic.

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Analog Corner
Analog Corner #121
Michael Fremer  |  May 08, 2020  |  First Published: Aug 01, 2005  |  9 comments
Heart Attack on a Plate
Sundazed Music’s Bob Irwin was angry—and not because the corned beef at the Carnegie Deli was fatty (a given). A bunch of grizzled industry veterans, among them John Atkinson, AudioQuest’s Joe Harley, and David Chesky, were gathered for the annual pre–Home Entertainment Show high-cholesterol blowout organized by Ken Kessler at the famous New York eatery, and Irwin was explaining what the nice folks at Universal Music Group (UMG) had just done to him.

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Cable Reviews
It's Just Wire (REVISED FILES)
Michael Fremer  |  May 09, 2020  |  First Published: May 09, 2020  |  134 comments
Thanks to all who listened and participated (so far) including those who correctly criticized me for having channels reversed on two files. I posted in haste. Also I should not have "normalized" the files and should have instead posted them "as-is" so the only possible variable was the cable. Also the track lengths are now as close to identical as possible.

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Is Tonearm Manufacturer JELCO a Covid-19 Victim?
Michael Fremer  |  May 11, 2020  |  First Published: May 11, 2020  |  32 comments
This morning I received an email from Simon Brown designer and manufacturer of the innovative The Wand tonearm and new The Wand turntable telling me that Jelco tonearm's parent company Ichikawa Jewel Co. Ltd had announced it would be shutting down the business.

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