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"Blonde on Blonde" 47 Years Later On 45rpm Triple LP Box Set Sounds Better Than Ever!
Michael Fremer  |  Sep 25, 2013  |  34 comments
How to follow up Highway 61 Revisited released in the summer of 1965? Dylan had an impending nine-month world tour to deal with and a band to assemble. He hooked up with an outfit called Levon and the Hawks and after a few weeks of rehearsing and well-received live performances in Texas, he took the group to Columbia Studios in New York.

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Album Reviews
Miles Davis "Kind of Blue" Monophonic Reissue From Sony/Legacy: An Analog Planet Exclusive!
Michael Fremer  |  Sep 24, 2013  |  49 comments
Over the past few Record Store Days Sony/Legacy has been slowly rolling out on 180g vinyl, much of the Miles Davis catalog mastered from original analog tapes. This coming Record Store Day, November 29th, the label will release on vinyl Miles and Monk at Newport, Jazz Track and Kind of Blue. At that point, all nine mono vinyl titles will have been released. The same nine mono titles will debut on CD in a new box set MILES DAVIS: The Original Mono Recordings to be released on November 11th of this year

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News
Yes, "They" Are Still Out There At Garage Sales
Michael Fremer  |  Sep 23, 2013  |  First Published: Dec 31, 1969  |  23 comments
Pure Music's Rob Robinson went garage sale-ing over the weekend and hit one of those "mother loads" we can only dream about.

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News
Did Amazon Announce That Vinyl Sales Were "Up 745 percent" Since 2008?
Michael Fremer  |  Sep 21, 2013  |  First Published: Dec 31, 1969  |  34 comments
Sorry to have mislead you but the endgadget.com story headlined "Amazon Announces Vinyl Sales Up 745 Percent" is as best as I can determine, a fantasy created by the writer. First of all, it wasn't "Amazon" that announced anything. It was "Amazon.co.uk" the UK Amazon affiliate that made an announcement, but it was that vinyl sales were up 745 percent though it was about a huge increase in vinyl sales.

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Analog Gear News
In The Record Cleaning Machine Wars VPI Comes Out Vacuuming
Michael Fremer  |  Sep 20, 2013  |  First Published: Dec 31, 1969  |  4 comments
VPI just announced a new record cleaning machine, the MW-1 Cyclone. The new $1000 record cleaning machine shares the 16.5's shape but is of aluminum and has a removable lid rather than one that's hinged. Its bi-directional platter functions with the vacuum off or on.

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Acoustic Sounds Launches "Super HiRez" High Resolution Digital Download Website
Michael Fremer  |  Sep 20, 2013  |  First Published: Dec 31, 1969  |  4 comments
Leveraging its catalog of licensed title and self-produced SACDs, Acoustic Sounds has launched a high resolution digital download site that will allow customers to download their choice of DSD (Super Audio CD), FLAC files at 176/24, 88/24 or ALAC files at 88/24 bit resolution.

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Record Buying Tips
6000 Classical Records In Upstate New York Bookstore: Some For You?
Michael Fremer  |  Sep 18, 2013  |  First Published: Dec 31, 1969  |  6 comments
An email arrived in my inbox a few days ago from Bob Ludwig who had heard from a friend about a 6000 classical LP collection that had recently arrived at Melanie Nelson's Little Red Book Shack in the small Columbia County, New York town of Livingston. How it got there is less important than that it was there.

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News
The Beatles "On Air- Live at the BBC Volume 2" Coming on Four LP 180g Mono LP Set?
Michael Fremer  |  Sep 18, 2013  |  First Published: Dec 31, 1969  |  6 comments
Update: one online LP seller claims the set will be on four LPs not two. That would be good (but probably costly), but until there's label confirmation it should not be taken as fact. After all, another vendor claimed that Nick Drake's Five Leaves Left was cut from analog. We posted that as fact and were left with an egged face. So four LPs is "what we've heard" until we find out for sure.

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Album Reviews
Cyndi Lauper's Debut Sounding Better Than Ever on Mobile Fidelity's Reissue
Michael Fremer  |  Sep 15, 2013  |  1 comments
Like Marshall Crenshaw’s debut, Cyndi Lauper’s first album would be difficult to top and neither she nor Crenshaw managed to do it. Better to peak early than not peak at all—not that either of them didn’t release some very good follow-ups.

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Analog Corner
Analog Corner #47
Michael Fremer  |  Sep 13, 2013  |  First Published: Dec 31, 1969  |  4 comments
I've been waiting for the right occasion to crack open a sealed-in-the-polyethylene-bag 1A pressing of The Byrds' Mr. Tambourine Man I'd bought a few years ago from a veteran Columbia Records publicist. Today was the day. Wiz reissue producer and Sundazed Records Prez Bob Irwin has just graced me with test lacquers of that album, which he'll release soon on 180gm vinyl, along with Turn! Turn! Turn!, Notorious Byrds Brothers, and Sweetheart of the Rodeo—with others to follow (I hope).

These Irwin-produced sets were issued three years ago to great acclaim on Columbia/Legacy CD (with some cuts, like "Mr. Tambourine Man," mixed analog in stereo for the first time), with lots of great bonus tracks, photos, studio chatter, etc. The new LPs, mastered all-analog using Irwin's custom-rebuilt Ampex ATR-100 playback deck, will contain the remixes, plus one bonus track per side, fitted in without compression. The plan is to issue the LPs with gatefold jackets to allow the inclusion of never-before-seen photos from the original sessions and other cool stuff.

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