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David Bowie's "The Next Day" Offers a Bleak Yet Satisfying World View
Michael Fremer  |  May 30, 2013  |  20 comments
David Bowie fans who lost the thread around his Tin Machine days or who meandered mystified or perhaps less than fully satisfied through his end of century output and beyond need to return for The Next Day his first album in a decade, following his 2004 heart attack and major surgery. Not that Heathens wasn’t a good outing
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Analogplanet Tours Record Industry, Europe's Largest Record Pressing Plant
Michael Fremer  |  May 26, 2013  |  First Published: Dec 31, 1969  |  11 comments
After visiting the U.K. after Munich's High End show, I flew to Amsterdam. Record Industry pressing plant owner Ton Vermuelen picked me up at the airport and drove me to the Haarlem-based pressing plant he owns.
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Analog Corner
Analog Corner #38
Michael Fremer  |  May 26, 2013  |  First Published: Dec 31, 1969  |  0 comments
I flew into Los Angeles a week early to be HI-FI '98's media mouth. I hung at the hotel as much as possible, but there were radio stations and record stores to visit. I'd decided not to schlep records with me from back east, instead relying on what I could find in the L.A. bins.

What luck! Rockaway was having another half-price sale on used vinyl. I got unplayed "steamboat''-label Reprise pressings of the Kinks' Kink Kontroversy and You Really Got Me, and a British Apple original of the Beatles' 1962–66, for 12 bucks apiece.

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Analogplanet Visits London's Electric Mastering
Michael Fremer  |  May 25, 2013  |  First Published: Dec 31, 1969  |  6 comments
After the Munich High End Show I went to the U.K. on some other business and while there paid a visit to Electric Mastering, the parent company of reissue label The Electric Recording Co.
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Munich 2013
Munich High End Show 2013 Wrap-Up
Michael Fremer  |  May 24, 2013  |  First Published: Dec 31, 1969  |  3 comments
The Munich High End Show is probably the world's best attended audio event and the industry's most important. It is of greater significance than even the International Consumer Electronics Show held in Las Vegas every January.

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Franc Kuzma Vertically Integrates With Line of Phono Cartridges
Michael Fremer  |  May 23, 2013  |  First Published: Dec 31, 1969  |  0 comments
In addition to showing his almost menacing looking mega-mass Stabi M turntable we highlighted in CES 2013 coverage, Franc Kuzma introduced a line of MC phono cartridges with motors manufactured to his specs in Japan and bodies he machines in Slovenia.
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Munich 2013
m-a Recordings' "Será Una Noche" To Get Vinyl Reissue Via WADAX D/A Converter
Michael Fremer  |  May 23, 2013  |  First Published: Dec 31, 1969  |  0 comments
American WADAX distributor Rick Brown holding a test pressing of a new vinyl reissue of one of Todd Garfinkle's most highly regarded m-a recordings, Será Una Noche
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Munich 2013
Pyon Sound Ultima Turntable and Iris Reference Tone Arm From Korea
Michael Fremer  |  May 23, 2013  |  First Published: Dec 31, 1969  |  1 comments
Here's one that's not brand new but I've never before seen it. The Pyon Ultima turntable weighs in at 170 pounds.
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Munich 2013
A.J. van den hul's New Carbon Nanotube "Wire"
Michael Fremer  |  May 23, 2013  |  First Published: Dec 31, 1969  |  0 comments
A.J. van den hul showed me a spool of nanotube carbon conductor that's ultra-thin and flexible. It's also very expensive at this point.
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Munich 2013
Thrax Orpheus Phono Preamplifier From Bulgaria Looks to be a Sonic Winner
Michael Fremer  |  May 23, 2013  |  First Published: Dec 31, 1969  |  1 comments
Thrax has yet to make major inroads in the American market but that will surely change as its products become better known.
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