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Michael Fremer  |  Jun 06, 2012  |  First Published: Dec 31, 1969  |  1 comments
So you've got a Rega turntable and you love the sound and the performance bang you get for the buck, but you don't like that you can't easily adjust VTA/SRA because the rear of the arm is bolted down?
Michael Fremer  |  Jun 06, 2012  |  4 comments
While the Mississippi born, now New York based Wilson is labeled a "jazz singer," she's strayed far from her original comfort zone to cover everyone from The Monkees to Van Morrison to Robert Johnson—and more importantly done it effectively by re-imagining both the familiar arrangements and the listener's every musical expectation.
Michael Fremer  |  Jun 05, 2012  |  First Published: Dec 31, 1969  |  12 comments
Mastering engineer George Marino, who worked for nearly 40 years at Sterling Sound cutting some of the greatest records of the LP era and helped usher in the vinyl renaissance, passed away on Monday after a year long bout with lung cancer.

Michael Fremer  |  Jun 03, 2012  |  First Published: Dec 31, 1969  |  7 comments
Do I even have to tell you what album this is? Okay, I guess I do. It's Dave Brubeck's "time travel" masterpiece Take Five of course, about to be reissued by Acoustic Sounds as a double 45rpm edition that includes deluxe gatefold packaging

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Michael Fremer  |  Jun 03, 2012  |  First Published: Dec 31, 1969  |  7 comments
VPI demoed a more polished version of the company's new $1300 Traveler turntable/tonearm combination. If this aluminum paltered turntable that new includes a removable arm sounds as good as it looks, it should be a
Michael Fremer  |  Jun 03, 2012  |  First Published: Dec 31, 1969  |  2 comments
Nothing a clean mind and heart can't cure. Actually it's an album cover for a 1950s David Oistrach violin recital album on Parliament records (PLP 118) that includes Prokofiev's "Love For Three Oranges."
Michael Fremer  |  Jun 03, 2012  |  First Published: Dec 31, 1969  |  0 comments
It's official: there was more vinyl for sale at this year's Newport show than at any show in American audio show history.
Michael Fremer  |  Jun 02, 2012  |  First Published: Dec 31, 1969  |  0 comments
PBN's Olympian PX Fully Balanced Phono Preamp features a hefty outboard power supply and is fully balanced.
Michael Fremer  |  Jun 02, 2012  |  First Published: Dec 31, 1969  |  3 comments
The folks who manufacture the Spin Clean record cleaning machine—the least expensive effective record cleaning device introduced a new Limited Edition "Executive Model"....
Michael Fremer  |  Jun 02, 2012  |  First Published: Dec 31, 1969  |  0 comments
Germany-based Stein Music exhibited a Benz-Micro based boron cantilevered MC phono cartridge featuring a a brass mounting structure encased in a sandwiched body of Mahogany and carbon fiber

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