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The David Bowie "Five Years" Box Set Unboxed
Michael Fremer  |  Oct 10, 2015  |  First Published: Oct 10, 2015  |  37 comments
The David Bowie box set arrived from Warner Brothers, which distributes it in America, while I was at The Rocky Mountain Audio Festival.

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Album Reviews
The Deep, Connective Tissue of Resonance's "Eric Dolphy Musical Prophet" 3 LP Set
Michael Fremer  |  Nov 29, 2018  |  15 comments
Billed as “The Expanded 1963 New York Studio Sessions”, Resonance Records’ Black Friday offering Eric Dolphy Musical Prophet is anything but one of those RSD repackaged assemblages of cast off secondary material meant for fanatical completists. The phrase “connective tissue” kept running through my head as I listened to the 3 LPs and read “mouth agape” the vital annotation that threaded together the confused recorded history.

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Album Reviews
The Donovan Revival Rolls On
Michael Fremer  |  Apr 01, 2006  |  0 comments

Donovan may claim to not be a Dylan wannabe, but when you listen to "Catch the Wind," this compilation's opener, his claim rings hollow. It's so Dylan, so "Chimes of Freedom," and so derivative, there's no escaping the Dylan in him.

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Album Reviews
The Doors At 45 On 45!
Michael Fremer  |  Jul 11, 2012  |  23 comments
Do you really need a musical discussion at this point in time? All I can say is that in the "Summer of Love" of 1967, all you could hear coming from car radios, and open windows was the edited version of "Light My Fire." It defined that summer for most of my peers and was the perfect calling card with which to beg for some action from a date. Hard to believe that was 45 years ago.

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Album Reviews
The Dresden Doll's Doll Strums and Sings
Michael Fremer  |  Oct 01, 2010  |  0 comments

What possessed Amanda Palmer to cover Radiohead playing her "magic ukelele"? Who knows? Did this inspire Eddie Vedder to issue a ukelele-based record? What would Arthur Godfrey think of all of this (look him up if you're too young to know who he is)?

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Phono Preamp Reviews
The DSA Phono II MM/MC Phono Preamplifier
Michael Fremer  |  Jul 31, 2014  |  First Published: Jul 31, 2014  |  14 comments
I reviewed Dynamic Sound Associate's $12,000 solid-state phono preamp in Stereophile's "Analog Corner" October, 2013. It was a "Class A" product all the way other than a few "burps".

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Album Reviews
The Duke Past His Prime Still Had Plenty Left to Give
Michael Fremer  |  May 01, 2005  |  0 comments

The big band era was over and Duke Ellington was past his most creative years by the time this set was recorded, but the year was 1960 and no doubt the art of recording was reaching a pinnacle. If you have any doubts, check out this Classic reissue cut from the three track original.

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The Eagle Has Landed: Phoenix Engineering's High Power Digital Turntable PSU
Michael Fremer  |  Dec 26, 2014  |  First Published: 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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Turntable Reviews
The EAT B-Sharp Is An Attractive, Well-Performing Plug'n'Play Turntable
Michael Fremer  |  Feb 08, 2018  |  First Published: Feb 08, 2018  |  11 comments
The European Audio Team’s entry into the under $2000 turntable market includes for $1595 a factory-installed Ortofon 2M Blue moving magnet phono cartridge that alone costs around $240. Something like the $100 2M Red is more often found packaged at this price point.

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The Electric Recording Company Does The White Stripes' White Blood Cells !
Michael Fremer  |  Oct 30, 2021  |  First Published: Oct 30, 2021  |  23 comments
No need to check your calendar it's not April 1st and this is for real: ERC just announced it would be releasing The White Stripes' White Blood Cells, the group's 2001 final release on the Sympathy For the Record Industry label cut from the original analog master tape and packaged in the usual meticulous ERC way.

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