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Tour the Tesla Tube Factory
Michael Fremer  |  Dec 28, 2014  |  2 comments
Back in 1999 I reviewed in Stereophile the KR Audio VT 8000 monoblock vacuum tube amplifier. I wrote in the review: "Virtually every part in the amplifier is custom-made in-house or sourced from associated facilities, including the metal fabrication, the transformers, and the circuit boards. The internal wiring is Swiss in origin. And, of course, the vacuum transducers themselves are made in-house by hand, and that includes all of the tiny internal components, which are stamped out one at a time by hand on dies custom-machined in-house. Even the glass for the tubes is turned and formed by hand. If I hadn't seen all of this with my own eyes, I wouldn't have believed it."

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The Eagle Has Landed: Phoenix Engineering's High Power Digital Turntable PSU
Michael Fremer  |  Dec 26, 2014  |  8 comments
Phoenix Engineering, manufacturer of the Falcon Digital Turntable PSU and Roadrunner Tachometer today announced the new High Power Eagle PSU designed to work with both VPI's higher powered motor equipped 'tables and those with dual motor/flywheels—as well as with any A.C. synchronous motor of 15 or fewer watts.

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Album Reviews
Potions  Takes Lyn Stanley Higher
Michael Fremer  |  Dec 23, 2014  |  11 comments
Second albums make or break pop artists. If the first one was a smash the second one had also better be or you risk the "one hit wonder" label. That's what happened to Christopher Cross, Marshall Crenshaw and more recently James Blunt, even though Cross and Crenshaw followed up their debuts with many good records—or at least good tunes. They just didn't produce chart hits.

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2015: The Year of the New Record Presses!
Michael Fremer  |  Dec 20, 2014  |  26 comments
New record presses are the big news today!
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Book Reviews
Not Too Late For Book Gift-Giving!
Michael Fremer  |  Dec 19, 2014  |  8 comments
There’s still time to give or get for yourself one or more of these provocative and/or visually opulent books.
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Features
A Hearing Aid For You From Doppler Labs
Michael Fremer  |  Dec 18, 2014  |  7 comments
The term "hearing aid" strikes terror into the hearts of audiophiles of all ages. Glasses? OK. But "hearing aid"? No one wants to admit to needing one so that's why you need a set of DUBS Acoustic Filters now.

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Beach Boys Reissues From Master Tapes Ready to Ship (Videos Again "Live")
Michael Fremer  |  Dec 16, 2014  |  57 comments
The Beach Boys reissue project from Analogue Productions has been years in the making. Some of the mono records go on sale this Friday, December 16th. The process from master tape to finished record, packaged, boxed and ready for shipping is shown in a series of videos that make their world debut here on analog planet.

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Watch Michael Fremer "Roast" Chad Kassem at L.A. and Orange County Audiophile Society Gala
Michael Fremer  |  Dec 11, 2014  |  15 comments
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Album Reviews
Bruce Springsteen: The Album Collection Vol. 1 1973-1984 Reviewed
Michael Fremer  |  Dec 10, 2014  |  26 comments
On the analogplanet we greet with great enthusiasm news of a carefully considered reissue project like this, but clearly that’s not the case elsewhere. While poking around the Internet looking for background information I came upon a bizarre and surprising series of comments on, of all places Rolling Stone magazine’s website.

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Album Reviews
Bill Evans The Complete Village Vanguard Recordings, 1961
Michael Fremer  |  Dec 09, 2014  |  9 comments
If you already own Sunday at The Village Vanguard and Waltz For Debby you have two album's worth of material from that magical afternoon and evening of June 25, 1961 that the producer Orrin Keepnews deemed worthy of releasing.

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