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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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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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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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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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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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Munich High End 2014 — This Photo Says It All (Video Enhanced)
Michael Fremer  |  May 17, 2014  |  8 comments
Days of posting will be required to provide for you all of the analog news at Munich's High End Show this year. There's so much to report both with still photos and videos.
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Famous Swiss Tape Recorder Brand To Re-introduce Reel-to-Reel Analog Recorder! (NOT)
Michael Fremer  |  May 16, 2014  |  26 comments
Sorry but this was all a rumor. At High End Munich 2015 the company (guess which?) said it was just a rumor and that it was "a digital world"_Ed.

Not allowed to divulge the brand name but a famous Swiss company renowned for its pro audio and semi-pro reel to reel tape decks will begin again next year manufacturing a reel-to-reel tape deck!

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Durand Adds Lower-Priced Kairos Tonearm to Line Plus Composite Telos
Michael Fremer  |  May 16, 2014  |  0 comments
Durand added the new lower priced Kairos to its line of unipivot arms.
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Munich 2014
KLAUDIO Intros "Record Changer" For KD-CLN-LP200 Ultrasonic Record Cleaning Machine (Video Enhanced)
Michael Fremer  |  May 16, 2014  |  5 comments
South Korea based KLAUDIO (as in "Claudio" not "KL Audio") demoed a new add-on "record changer" mechanism for its KD-CLN-LP200 ultrasonic cleaning machine.
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