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Fans Demand More Blue Notes From Music Matters!
AAA Vinyl, News
Michael Fremer  |  Mar 11, 2017  |  7 comments
A group of determined fans of both the Blue Note jazz catalog and the Music Matters reissues, which are always done from tape and done correctly recently started a drive to convince the label to issue more of Blue Notes after the label apparently decided it had released a sufficient number.

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Definitive Audio's Music Matters 12 Event Is This Thursday March 9th 5PM-9PM
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Michael Fremer  |  Mar 07, 2017  |  4 comments
If you live in the Seattle-Tacoma area, why not spend an evening at Definitive Audio listening to good music on great audio gear hosted by representatives from many of the industry's top manufacturers? I'll be there too.

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Third Man Pressing Plant Party Was a "Ya'Alta" Like Event
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Michael Fremer  |  Feb 26, 2017  |  17 comments
Jack White marked the opening of his new Third Man Pressing plant in a reinvigorated Detroit neighborhood by throwing a grand, festive, sometimes rowdy rock'n'roll (semi-formal attire requested) party. Among the invited "F.O.V.s" (Friends of Vinyl) were most of the owners of America's major and minor pressing plants. The gathering was probably the first time all of these once battered, now thriving survivors of the fading CD era assembled in one place to celebrate the unlikely resurgence of vinyl records.

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Sonus Faber Launches New Lineup of Homage Tradition Loudspeakers
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Michael Fremer  |  Feb 04, 2017  |  5 comments
Sonus faber launched updated versions of the Homage Tradition line’s Amati and Guarneri loudspeakers and added the new Serafino, at an all-day event at the six-story World of McIntosh townhouse in lower Manhattan. Another updated speaker, the center channel Vox was listed in the brochure but not shown during the day-long roll out.

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"George Harrison" Pro-Ject Turntable Announced, Limited to 500 For America
Analog Gear News, News
Michael Fremer  |  Jan 24, 2017  |  8 comments
Pro-Ject recently announced the availability of the George Harrison turntable shown at the recent C.E.S..

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George Harrison Sixteen LP Box Set Readied by UMe and Harrison Estate
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Michael Fremer  |  Jan 24, 2017  |  26 comments
The upcoming (available February, 24th 2017) George Harrison sixteen 180 LP box set includes every solo release by "the quiet Beatle" from 1968 to 2002.

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Naxos America To Distribute Berlin Philharmonic Direct to Disc LP Box Set
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Michael Fremer  |  Jan 22, 2017  |  7 comments
The Berlin Philharmonic's Direct-to-Disk Four Brahms Symphony box set currently available for purchase on the orchestra's website store will also be available for purchase in America beginning January 27th, 2017 on the website of Naxos USA.

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Third Man Starts The Presses in Detroit February 25th!
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Michael Fremer  |  Jan 19, 2017  |  20 comments
Jack White's Third Man Records today announced the opening on February 25th of its new Detroit pressing plant in the heart of the city's historic Cass corridor neighborhood, down the block from the Shinola store.

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Audio Salon Event Tomorrow You Don't Want to Miss!
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Michael Fremer  |  Jan 13, 2017  |  3 comments
It's short notice, but The Audio Salon's Maier Shadi works quickly when there's an opportunity to be seized and an exciting in-store event to be held.

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Gearbox Develops Kickstarter Funded Innovative Turntable
Analog Gear News, News
Michael Fremer  |  Jan 03, 2017  |  30 comments
Gearbox Records, best known as a mastering studio equipped with a vintage tube-based cutting system, announces an innovative new turntable with built-in vacuum tube-based phono preamp and auto-Bluetooth streaming.

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Furnace Record Pressing Tests One of Ten Rebuilt Toolex Presses Soon to Go "Live"!
Analog Gear News, News
Michael Fremer  |  Dec 20, 2016  |  1 comments
Do you need to see more pressing plants go online to be convinced that the vinyl resurgence is surging? How about this: Furnace Record Pressing in Fairfax Virginia will soon go "live" with ten fully rebuilt Toolex Alpha presses.

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A 2016 Analog Business Update Presented at the L.A. and O.C. Audio Society Gala
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Michael Fremer  |  Dec 17, 2016  |  14 comments
AnalogPlanet Editor Michael Fremer addresses the L.A. and Orange County Audio Society Gala and gives them the facts and figures that prove that the "analog revival" is real.

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Allsop Brings Back the Orbitrac
Analog Gear News, News, Record Cleaning Machine Reviews
Michael Fremer  |  Dec 11, 2016  |  9 comments
We started lobbying Allsop to bring back the Orbitrac almost as soon as its demise was announced. We got no response so started a campaign on musicangle.com to no avail.

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A Day In the Life Of Vinyl
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Michael Fremer  |  Dec 06, 2016  |  37 comments
What a day. It actually started yesterday when I exited an airplane and entered the Newark International Airport terminal and spotted a record store!

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Newvelle Records Completes First Year and Funds Second
Album Reviews, News
Michael Fremer  |  Nov 27, 2016  |  12 comments
The subscription-based, vinyl-only record label Newvelle Records is an audacious project on many levels—a “closed loop” system wherein jazz enthusiasts pay an annual “membership fee” of $425 (includes shipping) and receive six Newvelle-produced records—all performed by mostly familiar “world class” artists— over the course of the year.
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