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Book Reviews
"Turn Up The Radio!" Is Your Father's Day "Go To" Gift
Michael Fremer  |  May 28, 2014  |  3 comments
The big problem with "Turn Up The Radio!" Harvey Kubernik's latest book about the L.A. music scene's "golden age" is that as you turn the pages it's almost impossible to not just want to look at the pictures.

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News
Bonnie Raitt's Nick of Time  Getting AAA Vinyl Reissue
Michael Fremer  |  May 28, 2014  |  6 comments
It's difficult to believe that 25 years have passed since the original release of Bonnie Raitt's Nick of Time LP, an album whose title song deals with running out of time but that's how long it's been.

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Phono Preamp Reviews
Four Phono Preamp File Identities Revealed!
Michael Fremer  |  May 27, 2014  |  15 comments
While in excess of 6000 people read the story and many thousands downloaded the files, for some reason fewer than 100 analogplanet.com readers chose to vote for which phono preamp sounded best reproducing a short segment of Mehmet Ali Sanlikol's big band album what's next.

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Phono Preamp Reviews
Four Phono Preamps Reviewed
Michael Fremer  |  May 27, 2014  |  2 comments
You've had the files to listen to, compare and vote on for some time now so here are the capsule reviews.

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Features
Tour the SME Factory
Michael Fremer  |  May 20, 2014  |  20 comments
Following Munich's High End 2014 show I flew to the U.K. where I met up with Chad Kassem and Chad Stelly of Acoustic Sounds, the new American SME distributor. On Monday, May 19th we took a train to Shoreham by Sea to visit turntable and tonearm manufacturer SME.

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News
SME's New Model 10 —— Worldwide Exclusive First Look!
Michael Fremer  |  May 20, 2014  |  17 comments
During a visit to SME's factory May 19th (full photo story upcoming) company operations manager Liam Daly introduced the upcoming completely redesigned Model 10 turntable due for release some time in 2015.

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Munich 2014
Tri-Planar Introduces SE Version of its Standard 10" Tonearm
Michael Fremer  |  May 18, 2014  |  2 comments
Tri-Planar's new SE version of its 10" tonearm (Mk. VII edition) features a shorter version of its damped carbon fiber arm tube found on the U12 model.

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Munich 2014
Pull the "Legs" Off of Brinkmann’s New Spyder Turntable
Michael Fremer  |  May 18, 2014  |  0 comments
The new Brinkmann Spyder’s hub construction allows you to have from one to four tonearms.
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Munich 2014
AMG Introduces Battery Powered Phono Preamplifier
Michael Fremer  |  May 18, 2014  |  0 comments
AMG introduced $5000 battery powered phono preamplifier at HE 2014 with circuit designed by Michael Yee featuring both RCA and XLR inputs.
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Munich 2014
AMG Adds To Line Lower Priced Giro Turntable
Michael Fremer  |  May 18, 2014  |  1 comments
Turntable and tonearm manufacturer AMG debuted the $9,900 Giro turntable, which comes complete with 9" AMG 9W2 tonearm
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