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Waits Live In Ten Cities
Michael Fremer  |  Jul 01, 2010  |  1 comments

If you go for Waits’s “Louis Armstrong meets Screamin’ Jay Hawkins meets Captain Beefheart” blues/jazzbo thing, obtaining it live or recorded live is probably as pure as it gets and arguably the best way to consume an artist energized by the crowd’s adulation and an adept touring backup band capable of creating thick, churning atmospherics.

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Munich 2018
Walk the Floors and Visit the Listening Rooms Day One at Munich's High End Show 2018
Michael Fremer  |  May 12, 2018  |  First Published: May 12, 2018  |  4 comments
Day one's video coverage at High End Munich 2018 finally uploaded. More than an hour's worth of edited video is embedded below. This year's show was bigger, better and more crowded than ever. As you'll see, the world's high performance audio designers and manufacturers have been busy creating exciting new and innovative audio gear, especially in the analog domain and at every price point.

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Munich 2018
Walk the Halls at High End Munich 2018 With AnalogPlanet Editor Michael Fremer
Michael Fremer  |  May 17, 2018  |  First Published: May 17, 2018  |  1 comments
High End Munich 2018 day two began with an hour-long interview with Ortofon's Leif Johannsen that's in another video on this website. Even though the show had been open for two hours, long lines of people were still waiting to enter the halls at noon Friday morning. What a show!

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News
Walk the Halls of Bangkok BAV High-end 2015 Show on Set-up Day (Video Now Active)
Michael Fremer  |  Jun 18, 2015  |  First Published: Jun 19, 2015  |  15 comments
Wednesday was set-up day so I walked the halls and entered the rooms to shoot some video.

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Walker Audio Pivots on Tone Arm Design In New Procession Turntable
Michael Fremer  |  Sep 03, 2015  |  First Published: Sep 03, 2015  |  7 comments
Walker Audio, best known for its Proscenium air bearing turntable and air bearing tangential tracking tone arm recently announced the new Procession turntable featuring a pivoted arm.

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NewsSet-Up Accessory ReviewsSet-Up Tips
WallyTools Are Back From The New WAM Engineering
Michael Fremer  |  Apr 21, 2020  |  First Published: Apr 21, 2020  |  13 comments
WAM Engineering's new universal WallyTractor is now available from the newly formed company, a partnership between the late Wally Malewicz's son Andrzej, himself a mechanical engineer and Wally's former production assistant J.R. Boisclair. They've just launched the Wallyanalog website where you will find complete details of the new $395 universal WallyTractor and the available services the Santa Rosa, CA based company provides.

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Set-Up Accessory ReviewsSet-Up Tips
WAM Engineering's New, Improved WallySkater V2.1
Michael Fremer  |  Aug 02, 2020  |  First Published: Aug 02, 2020  |  47 comments
Skating, a pivoted tonearm’s tendency to “skate” towards the record center is real, is not created by “centripetal force” and is not best ignored because compensating for it somehow worsens sonic performance.

If you do not apply some kind of skating counterforce, the stylus will ride the inner groove throughout the record side, producing uneven record and stylus wear. And it can’t possibly improve record playback sound.

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News
WAM Engineering/WallyTools SRA WEBNAR This Saturday March 20th 2PM EDT, 11AM Pacific
Michael Fremer  |  Mar 19, 2021  |  First Published: Mar 19, 2021  |  6 comments
Stylus Rake Angle Webinar! On March 20th at 11am in the U.S. Pacific Time Zone, WAM Engineering / WallyTools will conduct a free one hour instructional webinar on how to accurately measure your cartridge's dynamic Stylus Rake Angle (SRA) for optimal playback results.

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WAMM MASTER CHRONOSONIC at Audio Advisors West Palm Beach, Florida Friday November 22
Michael Fremer  |  Nov 14, 2019  |  First Published: Nov 14, 2019  |  7 comments
On Friday evening November 22nd at Audio Advisors, West Palm Beach, Florida, Wilson Audio Specialties' Peter McGrath will present a demonstration of the WAMM Master Chronosonic loudspeaker with the WAMM Master Subsonic Subwoofers using some of his own superb recordings—some readers might not know that McGrath has had a long career as a recording engineer, including for Harmonia Mundi among other labels.

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Want a Lacquer of A Love Supreme Cut From the Original Master Tape?
Michael Fremer  |  Nov 10, 2021  |  First Published: Nov 10, 2021  |  34 comments
Not kidding. Supersense and Universal Music Group, Austria are making available a limited number of lacquers cut directly from the original master tapes of a few albums including A Love Supreme and Getz/Gilberto. That's what they are saying, I don't blame you for being incredulous.

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