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Swedish Analog Technologies Announces New Pick Up Arm Lineup
Michael Fremer  |  Feb 20, 2018  |  5 comments
SAT (Swedish Analog Technologies) announced today two new pick up arms, the LM and CF1 series that replace the original SAT arm, now discontinued after a successful run of 70—an impressive number considering the arm's cost of more than $30,000.

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Swedish Analog Technologies Announces Two New Pickup Arms for 2018
Michael Fremer  |  Oct 16, 2017  |  10 comments
Swedish Analog Technologies today announced two new pickup arms to be introduced "...in the first quarter of 2018". The photo accompanying this news item is of the original SAT Pickup Arm because no photos of the new arms were provided at this time. In fact, this photo taken from the company's website is of an earlier version than the one currently in production.

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Swedish Band's Limited Edition Promo Single Made of Ice!
Michael Fremer  |  Jan 02, 2013  |  14 comments
The Swedish Band The Shout Out Louds released a limited edition of 10 copies of a promo single in a kit that requires the receiver to use a supplied latex mold to produce a record made of ice that actually plays
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T Bone Burnett, NeoFidelity, Inc., and Julien’s Auctions Announce Exclusive Partnership for Forthcoming, One-of-One Ionic Original Releases
Mike Mettler  |  Dec 12, 2024  |  4 comments

The answer, my friends, is blowin’ in the grooves. Today (December 12, 2024), Julien’s Auctions announced an exclusive partnership with T Bone Burnett’s NeoFidelity, Inc., and their forthcoming Ionic Original releases. The Ionic Original is described as a “one-of-one, handmade, collector’s edition master recording, specifically arranged and performed for each individual recorded disc by the artist.” Read on to see what we currently know about what constitutes an Ionic Original, and what the plan is for what comes next. . .

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T-Bone Burnett-Produced Lost On the River: The New Basement Tapes Set For November 11th Release
Michael Fremer  |  Aug 19, 2014  |  3 comments
Back in March while out in Los Angeles to help with the Audio Fidelity TRON reissue, I followed up on Al Schmitt's invitation to visit him at Capitol Studios where he was working on a still secret all-analog production. Schmitt took me on a tour of Capitol 's famous studios—the site of so much recorded history—and I captured most of it on video.

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T.H.E. Show Newport Beach 2013 Coverage Coming Up!
Michael Fremer  |  May 31, 2013  |  0 comments
T.H.E. Show Newport Beach 2013 is underway and coverage will begin later today. I participated in the ribbon cutting ceremony with John Atkinson, Robert Harley and Dr. David Robinson wearing the GoPro camera so you could see the event from my perspective but the camera was accidentally set to 'still' and I didn't get the video.
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Table Toppers: Show Us Your Turntables!
Mike Mettler  |  Sep 18, 2023  |  5 comments

We have so many vibrant discussions about our turntables, personal listening systems, and the music we listen to that we here at AP decided it was time to see and hear about them in much more detail. Read on to see how you can get your turntable and personal listening system featured in a new section on AP called Table Toppers. . .

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Talk Talk's Mark Hollis RIP
Michael Fremer  |  Feb 26, 2019  |  12 comments
Talk Talk's Mark Hollis (center in photo) has died at age 64 after a "short illness". Readers unfamiliar with the group's astonishing later albums and who lump the group in with late '70s synth bands might not understand why this is news but those who know Hollis's later Talk Talk albums Spirit of Eden and Laughing Stock surely do. Hollis later released a self-titled solo album recorded with two microphones that ends with two minutes of tape hiss.

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TechDAS Air Force Zero Debut at Audio Salon—First Impressions Stun Listeners
Michael Fremer  |  Apr 24, 2019  |  31 comments
Let's just say I went into the TechDAS Air Force Zero's recent debut at The Audio Salon in Santa Monica with a great deal of skepticism. A big, lumbering turntable featuring an enormous and massive multi-layer platter system seemed like a prescription for over-damped, ill focused sound. What we heard those two evenings was anything but! By the way, what you see towards the bottom of the platter is not a reflection. That is the lower part of the platter!

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Technics Announces New Reference Class SP-10R Direct Drive Turntable
Michael Fremer  |  Aug 31, 2017  |  17 comments
Technics will be showing at IFA 2017 (Berlin, Sept.1-6) a brand new edition of its legendary SP-10d direct drive turntable. The new SP-10R shown in the above picture is slated to debut in the summer of 2018.

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Technics Launches New Limited Edition SL-1210GAE 55th Anniversary Turntable
Michael Fremer  |  May 28, 2020  |  14 comments
Based on the Grand Class SL-1200G, the new 1210GAE is wholly made in Japan with a "significant level of hand-made processes" and features a full black anodized black brush hairline finish and black buttons.

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Technics Sarasota, Florida SL-1200GAE Preview Event March 24th
Michael Fremer  |  Feb 29, 2016  |  16 comments
Sarasota Florida area readers take note: Encore Home Entertainment Systems hosts a March 24th Technics SL-1200GAE turntable preview event from 7PM-9PM.

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Technics' SL-15 Automatic, Programmable, Direct Drive, Tangential Tracker
Michael Fremer  |  May 04, 2015  |  12 comments
Lyra Cartridge CEO Stig Bjorge collects some vintage audio gear. The Technics SL-15, introduced in 1981, is among his favorites. Recently, he found one for sale in America and he asked me if I'd pick it up for him in Princeton, New Jersey, which happens to be the home of The Princeton Record Exchange.

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Teens Agree! Vinyl Sounds Better
Michael Fremer  |  Apr 21, 2006  |  1 comments

When Nicholas Cage, holding up a Beatles LP at the beginning of \"The Rock,\" said \"These sound better!\" kids must have been listening!

The truth wins out!

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Ten LP Kinks Mono Box Cut by Kevin Gray From Original Analog Masters
Michael Fremer  |  Oct 18, 2016  |  27 comments
A "Kinks in Mono" box set is due for release overseas shortly and in America on December 16th.

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