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Capitol/UMe Readies 50th Anniversary "Music From Big Pink"
Michael Fremer  |  Jul 31, 2018  |  13 comments
Capitol/UMe releases on August 31st a newly remixed and remastered 50th Anniversary edition of The Band's epic 1968 debut Music From Big Pink.Bob Clearmountain re-mixed from the original 4 track tapes in both stereo and 5.1 channel surround mixes. The release will be available in various iterations including 2 180g black vinyl LPs, and a limited edition 2LP pink vinyl edition. There will also be a "Super Deluxe CD/Blu-ray/2LP/7-inch box set as well as a CD edition and a digital download.

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Joan Baez's Debut Vanguard LP Coming From Craft, Cut From Original Master Tape
Michael Fremer  |  Jul 29, 2018  |  8 comments
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"Thumb" Through ECM's Vinyl Catalog
Michael Fremer  |  Jul 17, 2018  |  3 comments
ECM recently sent an email blast containing a link to the label's vinyl catalogue, which you can "thumb" through to see all that's available.

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Rolling Stones Box Set Review Files Identified
Michael Fremer  |  Jul 10, 2018  |  4 comments
The unidentified file comparisons posted in the Rolling Stones Studio Album Collection review are revealed here.

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HiFiction AG Assumes Control of EMT Cartridges
Michael Fremer  |  Jul 02, 2018  |  2 comments
Switzerland-based HiFiction AG best known for its line of Thales turntables and tangential tracking pivoted pickup arms, announced today that it has assumed control of EMT Tontechnik and is now manufacturing in Switzerland the full line of EMT cartridges.

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SAT (Swedish Analog Technologies) Begins Delivering Four New Pickup Arms
Michael Fremer  |  Jul 02, 2018  |  19 comments
(Gothenburg Sweden, 6-25-2018)— SAT (Swedish Analog Technologies) last week announced that it's begun shipping its next-gen series of pickup arms, the LM-09 and LM-12 and the CF1-09 and CF1-12, both of which went into production last April.

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Zappa Family Trust Releases AAA Edition of Frank's "Burnt Weeny Sandwich"
Michael Fremer  |  Jun 26, 2018  |  41 comments
And this is how you do it correctly!: Supervised by the ZFT, the record was specially mastered for this release by Bernie Grundman with all analog production and cut directly from the 1970 ¼” stereo safety master tape in 2018.

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Analog "Guru" Wally Malewicz R.I.P.
Michael Fremer  |  Jun 07, 2018  |  12 comments
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"On the Radio" Exhibit at San Francisco International Airport
Michael Fremer  |  Jun 07, 2018  |  9 comments
Heading home after addressing the San Francisco Audiophile Society last April, your editor noticed and video'd this cool exhibition of old radios on display at SFA. He's always got you on his mind. Well often anyway.

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"Gene Clark" Coming Soon AAA From Intervention
Michael Fremer  |  Jun 05, 2018  |  9 comments
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Spinroad Vinyl Factory, A New Pressing Plant, Opens in Gothenburg, Sweden
Michael Fremer  |  Jun 05, 2018  |  2 comments
Spinroad Vinyl Factory just opened within Spinneriet (The Cotton Mill), an old textile factory located in the outskirts of Gothenburg, Sweden. It's currently Sweden's only pressing plant. Currently the facility has two presses. Of course they are the new Pheenix Alpha presses made in Solna, Sweden. For now lacquer cutting and plating is done in The Netherlands (probably at Record Industry) but the company hopes to eventually add that to the in-house mix.

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Audio Fidelity's Marshall Blonstein Calls It "A Side"
Michael Fremer  |  Jun 01, 2018  |  6 comments
Marshall Blonstein, owner/founder of both the DCC Compact Classics and Audio Fidelity labels and a record industry veteran revealed in a recent email that he was retiring and closing down the Audio Fidelity label (the photo L-R is of Blonstein, AnalogPlanet editor Michael Fremer and legendary mastering engineer Kevin Gray taken during the TRON double LP mastering sessions).

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Gold Note Adds Outboard PSU For Its PH-10 MM/MC Phono Preamplifier
Michael Fremer  |  Jun 01, 2018  |  1 comments
FIRENZE, Italy: Italian High-End manufacturer Gold Note – just introduced the PSU-10 external power supply developed to enhance the performance of the PH-10 phono stage.

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Dave Wilson (1944-2018)
Michael Fremer  |  May 28, 2018  |  9 comments
I first met Dave Wilson in the pages of The Absolute Sound in 1980 when he was a reviewer and I was too poor to own much of anything written about in the magazine. Actually, Dave was listed in the masthead not as a reviewer, but as a “Technical Writer”.

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Pro-Ject's Heinz Lichtenegger Buys Musical Fidelity
Michael Fremer  |  May 27, 2018  |  3 comments
There's never been an official press release about Pro-Ject's purchase of Musical Fidelity from owner Antony Michaelson so this site has held off reporting it until it could be confirmed. Last week, while at the EISA Global Press Convention in Antwerp, Belgium, AnalogPlanet editor Michael Fremer had an opportunity to speak with Pro-Ject CEO Heinz Lichtenegger about the Musical Fidelity purchase.

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