Michael Fremer

Cartridge Reviews
Triangle ART Zeus MC Cartridge: The Best For Less?
Michael Fremer  |  Feb 19, 2015  |  First Published: Feb 19, 2015  |  4 comments
California-based Triangle ART manufactures five gleaming chrome and gold plated high mass turntables as well as its own tone arm. The 'tables weigh from 40 to 850 pounds. Recently, Triangle ART introduced the Zeus MC phono cartridge, thus completing mechanical part of the analog playback.

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Questions For the Editor?
Michael Fremer  |  Feb 18, 2015  |  First Published: Feb 18, 2015  |  35 comments
The best way to ask questions and get answers is to send in an email to MFremer@analogplanet.com.

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Features
Analogplanet Visits Stoughton Press
Michael Fremer  |  Feb 12, 2015  |  First Published: Feb 12, 2015  |  12 comments
Stoughton Press located in California's City of Industry, recently installed a $2.8 million dollar state-of-the-art Heidelberg printing press in order to keep up with the demand for the "vinyl fad".

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News
Roxy Music Box Set Coming March 16th From Universal
Michael Fremer  |  Feb 12, 2015  |  First Published: Feb 12, 2015  |  77 comments
Roxy Music, the art-rock band that spawned the music careers of lead singer Bryan Ferry and producer, music experimenter (and who knows how to adequately describe him) Brian Eno will get the full and well deserved box set treatment from UMe.

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High End Mässan 2015
A Quick Visit to Stockholm's Veteran Hifi
Michael Fremer  |  Feb 10, 2015  |  First Published: Feb 10, 2015  |  5 comments
Towards the end of the Stockholm show I was called away and asked to visit a hifi store on the other side of town. I was told I'd like what I saw and I did.

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High End Mässan 2015
Stockholm High End Mässan 2015 Show Coverage
Michael Fremer  |  Feb 06, 2015  |  First Published: Feb 06, 2015  |  13 comments
Turntable set-up seminars and a visit to the Marten loudspeaker company in Gothenburg, Sweden's second largest city are the main agenda during this short visit but if there's anything new and interesting we'll report on it.

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Album Reviews
Shadows In The Night :  Another Side of Bob Dylan (corrected)
Michael Fremer  |  Feb 05, 2015  |  53 comments
Though Bob Dylan pays tribute here to Frank Sinatra who recorded for Columbia, Capitol and Reprise (which he founded), the record label is a Blue Note facsimile. The cover art also draws from a Blue Note: a blue tinted variant of Freddie Hubbard’s album Hub Tones (BST-ST84115). The back cover is a photo of a tuxedoed Dylan perusing with a masked woman an unidentifiable Sun 45rpm single.

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News
Ultrasonicrecords Adds Dryer Cube to Compliment V-8 Cleaning Machine
Michael Fremer  |  Feb 03, 2015  |  First Published: Feb 03, 2015  |  41 comments
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News
GZ Media Takes Its Latest "Fashion Statement" Down the Runway!
Michael Fremer  |  Feb 03, 2015  |  First Published: Feb 03, 2015  |  19 comments
When we announced last year that Czech Republic based GZ Media was pu
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News
Neil Young: Vinyl Resurgence is "nothing but a fashion statement"
Michael Fremer  |  Feb 03, 2015  |  First Published: Feb 03, 2015  |  119 comments
According to U.K. music paper NME, Neil Young claimed during a recent interview on Frame, a California radio show, that vinyl is "nothing but a fashion statement."

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