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Check Out Koizumi-San's 45rpm Record Collection
Michael Fremer  |  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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Analogplanet Visits Audio-Technica Headquarters, Machida, Japan
Michael Fremer  |  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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Audio-Technica ART 1000 Cartridge Designer Mitsuo Miyata Interviewed
Michael Fremer  |  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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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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AnalogPlanet Radio
Analogplanet Radio’s “Off the Shelf” Show Now Available For Streaming Here and on WFDU.fm
Michael Fremer  |  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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Amazing Sophia Pfister Update
Michael Fremer  |  Jul 11, 2016  |  8 comments
The response to the Sophia Pfister story and YouTube video has been incredible.

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Sweepstakes
Intervention Records Catalog Sweepstakes
Jon Iverson  |  Jul 05, 2016  |  455 comments
Register to win the Intervention Records catalog (seven LPs with a retail value of $248) we are giving away.

According to the company:

"Intervention Records is the NEW antidote for the same old reissues of the same old albums! IR exists for one simple reason, to produce archive-quality LPs of music we love! Intervention's sonic goal is that each record we do must be the definitive, go-to version of that album, the must-have edition that real music lovers will seek out. "

[This Sweepstakes is now closed.]

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What I Learned at the First Ever McIntosh Group Convention
Michael Fremer  |  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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So You Want to Buy a Record Store?
Michael Fremer  |  Jul 01, 2016  |  4 comments
Classic Records founder and current owner of Elite Distribution as well as the record store High Fidelity in the Los Feliz area of Los Angeles is looking to sell the store.

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Audio Research Launches New Foundation Series at WOM Convention
Michael Fremer  |  Jun 30, 2016  |  24 comments
—Sardinia, Italy, July 28th: Plymouth, Minnesota-based Audio Research introduced to its dealers and distributors at WOM (World of McIntosh) Convention its new lower priced Foundation line of tube electronics. The three pieces were on static display at the Munich High End Show, but here they played in a system with a pair of Sonus Faber Il Cremonese speakers.

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