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Acoustic Sounds Acquires, Commences Selling Disc Doctor Record Cleaning Products
Michael Fremer  |  Aug 05, 2019  |  4 comments
Acoustic Sounds just announced the acquisition and re-introduction of Disc Doctor record cleaning products (cleaning fluids, applicator brushes, etc.), long considered by both consumers and professionals to be among the finest available.

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Newvelle Records Live On Stage and In the Studio September 3-8 In New York City
Michael Fremer  |  Aug 05, 2019  |  0 comments
The by-subscription jazz vinyl-only label Newvelle recently announced "Newvelle Live", a week of music on the stage and in the studio to celebrate Newvelle’s 5th Anniversary. The week-long event features two New York premieres , four world premieres, and five live recording sessions. Alumni from each season of the label’s subscription-based box sets will perform at the legendary Jazz Standard, NYC, Jazz Record’s 2017 “venue of the year.”

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Album Reviews
Woodstock Back to the Garden—50th Anniversary Collection Full of Surprises
Michael Fremer  |  Aug 01, 2019  |  20 comments
Counseloring at Camp Ma-Ho-Ge near White Lake, N.Y. the summer of 1968 was, in the summer of 1969, my ticket to drive to the back of Max Yasgur’s farm traffic free and without delay. I knew the back roads—not that I thought I’d need to use them when we set out for this music and arts festival we’d seen advertised all spring and summer on the walls of the New York City subway system. How could we not go? The advertised line-up was almost too good to believe.

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Kinks Arthur.... 50th Anniversary Box Set Drops October 25th on BMG
Michael Fremer  |  Jul 30, 2019  |  11 comments
One of the greatest of all Kinks albums—and a concept album about emigrating from England to Australia that still resonates, Arthur Or The Decline And Fall of The British Empire gets the l
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You Don't Really Need This Wristwatch, Do You?
Michael Fremer  |  Jul 29, 2019  |  12 comments
Do you really need a wrist watch that looks like a record? Of course you don't! Nor do I, but for $24.95 (as I write this but no telling for how long), why not? I ordered one.

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Analog Corner
Analog Corner #117
Michael Fremer  |  Jul 29, 2019  |  First Published: Apr 01, 2005  |  2 comments
What if they gave a CES seminar titled “Can You Hear Me Now? Where Has Audio Gone?” and almost no one showed up? That’s pretty much what happened in January, “they” being me.

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Contributing Editor Malachi Lui Now Has His Own YouTube Channel
Michael Fremer  |  Jul 29, 2019  |  3 comments
Contributing editor Malachi Lui now has his own YouTube channel. Internet on high alert!
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AAA VinylAlbum Reviews
Vinyl Me, Please Drops Perfect Al Green Call Me Reissue
Michael Fremer  |  Jul 26, 2019  |  11 comments
If you'd have told me a few years ago when Vinyl Me, Please launched, that within a few years the curated based vinyl subscription service would be at the top of the vinyl reissue heap, I'd have said you've been inhaling too many PVC fumes. But here we are with a vinyl reissue that's perfect in every way.

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"Blue Note Records: Beyond the Notes" Documentary Set For Blu-ray and DVD Release
 |  Jul 25, 2019  |  1 comments
How many times has the Blue Note label risen from the ashes over its 80 year history? It's been revived and resurrected more than a few times by various owners (not counting founders Alfred Lion and Max Margulis), the first of which was Liberty Records in 1965, which In turn was bought out in 1969 by United Artists Records. In 1979 EMI bought United Artists and put Blue Note out to pasture. Say what?

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Features
Vanatoo Transparent Zero Loudspeaker Review Follow-Up
Malachi Lui  |  Jul 24, 2019  |  26 comments
In my review of the $359/pair < a href=https://www.analogplanet.com/content/vanatoos-transparent-zero-speakers-offer-great-convenience-satisfying-desktop-sound>Vanatoo Transparent Zero desktop speakers, I noted that while playing Kanye West’s “I Am A God,” the active speaker produced a high-pitched whistle/screech noise. After we published the review, Vanatoo co-founder Gary Gesellchen suggested that instead of the cause being a design flaw, the noise was an artifact of an air leak due to loose screws. He recommended sealing the air passages by taking off the active speaker’s handle and tightening the screws all the way in.

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