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A Virtual Tour of the PortalSpaceRecords Pressing Plant
Michael Fremer  |  Apr 30, 2010  |  0 comments
All that's left of the original Hayes-Middlesex EMI record manufacturing facility is the landmark smokestack shown in the top photo.The current PortalSpace pressing plant resides in the buildings shown on the left of the second photo.The third photo shows the busy PortalSpaceRecords loading dock.

Once inside, you come upon the packing department, where on the day of my visit, I found workers placing George Harrison's Living In The Material World LPs into jackets. The finished package is then shrinkwrapped and boxed for worldwide shipment.

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A Visit to Angie's Audio Corner In Toronto, Canada For The Store's Annual Party
Michael Fremer  |  Jun 23, 2018  |  First Published: Jun 23, 2018  |  2 comments
Angie's Audio Corner owner Angela Lisi throws an annual party for friends, customers, manufacturers and the press around the time of the summer solstice, this year to celebrate her store's 40th anniversary. She also runs a successful distribution business. There was live music and food trucks

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A Visit to Dorado Music Packaging
Michael Fremer  |  Feb 22, 2016  |  First Published: Feb 22, 2016  |  4 comments
At last fall's WAX Event at the Capitol Tower I met the owner of Dorado Music Packaging, a company that fabricates among other printed packaging, record jackets and books about music and vinyl.
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A Visit to Encore Records Ann Arbor, Michigan
Michael Fremer  |  Nov 06, 2015  |  First Published: Nov 06, 2015  |  17 comments
I am in Ann Arbor Michigan today, Friday November 6th, for an in-store appearance tonight at a Paragon Sight And Sound event.

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A Visit To Mill City Records, Hopkins, Minnesota
Michael Fremer  |  May 01, 2016  |  First Published: May 01, 2016  |  15 comments
While visiting Audio Research in Minneapolis prepping for an upcoming Stereophile review my hosts took me to Mill City Records in nearby Hopkins. Wow!

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A Visit to the High Fidelity Record Store
Michael Fremer  |  Mar 17, 2016  |  First Published: Mar 17, 2016  |  19 comments
Mike Hobson, one of the pioneers of the "vinyl resurgence" exited the reissue business a few years ago, selling Classic Records to Analogue Productions/Acoustic Sounds, Quality Record Pressings mogul Chad Kassem.

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A Visit to VPI's New Showroom
Michael Fremer  |  Mar 24, 2015  |  First Published: Mar 24, 2015  |  17 comments
On Sunday, March 22nd, VPI Industries hosted a meeting of the New Jersey Audiophile Society at its new showroom, which was formerly the home of VPI's founder Harry Weisfeld.

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Interviews
A Visit With Loudspeaker Designer/Innovator Siegfried Linkwitz
Michael Fremer  |  Jul 16, 2018  |  First Published: Jul 16, 2018  |  8 comments
Last spring while in San Francisco to speak to the S.F. Audio Society, AnalogPlanet editor Michael Fremer had the opportunity to speak on camera with Siegfried Linkwitz, whose name will be familiar to many audio enthusiasts as the co-inventor of the Linkwitz-Riley crossover network.

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A Vocal Recording Comparison of the Technics SL-1200G and Continuum Caliburn (AIFF Links Now Included and now IDENTIFIED)
Michael Fremer  |  Feb 01, 2017  |  First Published: Feb 01, 2017  |  67 comments
The outstanding and thoughtful responses to the SL-1200G/Continuum Caliburn comparison both here and on the YouTube channel prompted a second one using, as requested, a female vocal track. Unidentified 96/24 links now provided below YouTube widget.

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A Wally Malewicz Memorial
Michael Fremer  |  Jun 28, 2019  |  First Published: Jun 28, 2019  |  4 comments
Dave Gordon, who is Audio Research's Brand Ambassador, and who I've known for more than a few decades was a neighbor of my late mentor and friend Wally Malewicz. Dave sent this note and asked for people to share with others who considered Wally a friend. If any AnalogPlanet readers have gotten any good vinyl playback information from me, most of it originated with Wally, so consider him a friend. Therefore here's Dave's note:

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