Michael Fremer

Sort By: Post Date | Title | Publish Date
Album Reviews
Up or Down For Death Cab on Latest Release?
Michael Fremer  |  Mar 01, 2009  |  0 comments

The gift of uniqueness can easily become the curse of familiarity, easy identification and in the worst case, self-parody.

Continue Reading >
NewsTurntable Reviews
Updates and Corrections to Recent Technics SL-1000R Preview Story
Michael Fremer  |  Feb 21, 2018  |  First Published: Feb 21, 2018  |  37 comments
In the recent story about the week I spent with Technics' new SL-1000R turntable, the difference between what's commonly referred to as an arm's "effective length" and how Technics uses the term in its literature led to some confusion and a series of conceptual errors on my part for which I take full responsibility.

Continue Reading >
T.H.E. Show Newport 2013
Upscale Audio's Kevin Deal Displays NOS "Valve Porn"
Michael Fremer  |  Jun 01, 2013  |  2 comments
Tube freaks got a dose of "valve porn" in Kevin Deal's Upscale Audio room. Deal has been roaming the world in search of NOS tubes and he put on display some of his treasures: musty old boxes filled with NOS (new old stock) tubes unearthed in former Soviet bloc country warehouses as well as a huge trove he discovered by chance recently in Paris.
Continue Reading >
Album Reviews
Upstart Yarlung Records Gets Latin Grammy Here
Michael Fremer  |  Jul 01, 2011  |  2 comments

Classical music recorded all-analog using purist microphone techniques are few these days. Here is one from Bob Attiyeh's Yarlung Records that is both sonically and musically exquisite.

Continue Reading >
Set-Up Tips
USB Digital Microscope Appears to Show Stylus Wear
Michael Fremer  |  Aug 14, 2012  |  12 comments
This was as close and sharp as I could get capturing a stylus image from the front with the Dyno-Lite 313.
Continue Reading >
News
Utrecht Record Fair Day Two
Michael Fremer  |  Nov 26, 2013  |  3 comments
Day two of the Utrecht Record Fair was less crowded, as my hosts predicted it would be, but still, in the morning at least, it was plenty crowded as record buyers returned for the discounts many vendors offered, hoping to sell records rather than schlep them home (or to the next record fair somewhere in Europe).

Continue Reading >
News
Utrecht Record Fair Set-Up Day
Michael Fremer  |  Nov 22, 2013  |  1 comments
Friday, November 22nd was set-up day at the world's largest record fair. For a premium, organizers did let consumers in early so even as the booths were being set up and stocked, buyers made the rounds in the usual mad frenzied way.

Continue Reading >
News
Utrecht Record Fair This Weekend—Coverage on Analogplanet.com and via Twitter
Michael Fremer  |  Nov 21, 2013  |  2 comments
Continue Reading >
Analog Gear NewsCES 2016
VAC Launches Renaissance MM/MC Phono Preamplifier
Michael Fremer  |  Jan 13, 2016  |  First Published: Jan 13, 2016  |  1 comments
VAC's Kevin Hayes introduced the new Renaissance phono preamplifier at CES 2016 that costs one-fifth as much as the top-of-the-line Statement, which made its debut at CES 2013.

Continue Reading >
CES 2013
VAC Statement Phono Preamp Shoots For "The Best"
Michael Fremer  |  Jan 10, 2013  |  0 comments
VAC designer Kevin Hayes took me through his two box "Statement" tubed phono preamp. It has four single-ended and balanced inputs, adjustable gain of 52,70 and 76dB, capacitive and resistive loading, mono switch, zero feedback, transformer inputs for MC, and an outboard massive power supply.
Continue Reading >

Pages

X