Michael Fremer

RMAF 2013
Music Hall's $1199 Ikura Ready For Its Close Up, Mr. DeMille
Michael Fremer  |  Oct 13, 2013  |  1 comments
Music Hall's new, striking- looking Ikura turntable is going into production. The Ikura is a split-plinth design, with the motor located on a lower platform (not shown in photo) isolated via points from the main plinth. It includes a Pro-Ject sourced alloy tone arm, the sound of which Music Hall preferred to the carbon fiber arm.

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RMAF 2013
Acoustic Signature Wow Hits America's Shores
Michael Fremer  |  Oct 13, 2013  |  0 comments
First introduced at Munich's High End show last May, Acoustic Signature's Wow! turntable is now available in the United States.
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RMAF 2013
Woodworking Solutions Introduces Pull-Out Style Record Storage
Michael Fremer  |  Oct 13, 2013  |  0 comments
Richland, WA based Woodworking Solutions introduced at RMAF its Record phile LP storage cabinets. These solidly constructed units feature pull-out file cabinet style drawers, each capable of holding approximately 100 LPs. They are available in two and 4 drawer configurations and in a variety of wood finishes.
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RMAF 2013
Funk Firm's $1500 Turntable With Tone Arm
Michael Fremer  |  Oct 13, 2013  |  0 comments
Funk Firm's Flamenca is a $1500 filament-drive, precision machined glass platter turntable/tone arm combo that includes the company's 'co-polymer "string" bearing F6 tone arm.
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RMAF 2013
$1500 Turntable Price Point Heats Up!
Michael Fremer  |  Oct 13, 2013  |  0 comments
Thorens introduced a $1500 turntable/arm combo at RMAF
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RMAF 2013
10th Annual Rocky Mountain Audio Festival Awash in Vinyl!
Michael Fremer  |  Oct 12, 2013  |  5 comments
The vinyl-centric Ayre Acoustics room was one of day one's analog highlights for this correspondent. The room was filled with inexpensive used vinyl from local vinyl vendor Absolute Vinyl and everyone was in a festive mood.

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Beatles
The Beatles: "On Air-Live at The BBC Volume 2" A Fascinating, Musically Worthy Time Capsule
Michael Fremer  |  Oct 10, 2013  |  6 comments
These BBC recordings from 1963 and 1964 make clear that The Beatles were, even at that early stage of their career, a skilled musical ensemble and that even then they were eager to cast off the teen-craze image created for them by Brian Epstein.

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RMAF 2013
Analog Planet's Rocky Mountain Audio Festival Live Coverage Begins Tonight!
Michael Fremer  |  Oct 10, 2013  |  5 comments
I write this on a WiFi equipped airplane destination Denver.
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Record Cleaning Tips
Yes, That Flood Damaged Record Can Be Saved!
Michael Fremer  |  Oct 07, 2013  |  22 comments
After steam cleaning the flood damaged record (see 'Can Steam Save This Record?") I used Audio Intelligent Enzymatic Cleaning Fluid and the Loricraft cleaning machine.
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Record Cleaning Tips
Can Steam Save This Record?
Michael Fremer  |  Oct 02, 2013  |  17 comments
Back in April a reader sent me a box of flood-damaged records. I said then that I would try to resurrect them. More than 7000 people read that post and have been waiting with baited breath for almost six months!
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