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Some Record Store Day Offerings For April 18th 2015
Michael Fremer  |  Apr 15, 2015  |  24 comments
Here are some RSD 2015 offerings from Sony/Legacy and Rhino. Other labels have plenty too, but only these two bothered to send their titles. Have fun!

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"Ultimate Sinatra" Compilation Includes Columbia, Capitol and Reprise Tracks (Updated 4/13/15)
Michael Fremer  |  Apr 10, 2015  |  13 comments
Capitol/UMe kicks off the Frank Sinatra centennial with Ultimate Sinatra a multi-format April 21st release that will include a 24 track double 180g vinyl edition, a 25 track CD, a 26 track digital download and a deluxe 101 track 4 CD set.

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M2tech Joplin A/D Converter Gets Mk2 Update (Revised 4/9/2015)
Michael Fremer  |  Apr 07, 2015  |  5 comments
The M2tech Joplin, one of the A/D converters profiled in the recent A/D converter "shoot out" has had a "make over".

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Joni Mitchell Sounds Off on Digital Recording
Michael Fremer  |  Apr 07, 2015  |  21 comments
In case you missed this Billboard Magazine interview with Joni Mitchell, conducted upon the release of her 4 CD retrospective box set Love Has Many Faces, A Quartet, A Ballet, Waiting to Be Danced.

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Legendary Mastering Engineer Doug Sax Has Passed Away
Michael Fremer  |  Apr 02, 2015  |  31 comments
It is with much sadness that I inform you that Doug Sax, the great mastering engineer, direct-to-disc pioneer, co-founder of Sheffield Labs, founder of The Mastering Lab and of course a truly wonderful and pleasingly cantankerous person, passed away the morning of April 2nd. He would have been 79 on April 26th.

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A Visit to VPI's New Showroom
Michael Fremer  |  Mar 24, 2015  |  17 comments
On Sunday, March 22nd, VPI Industries hosted a meeting of the New Jersey Audiophile Society at its new showroom, which was formerly the home of VPI's founder Harry Weisfeld.

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"Garage Sale" Find Has QRP Adding 13 Additional Record Presses! (Now Video Enhanced)
Michael Fremer  |  Mar 02, 2015  |  57 comments
Quality Record Pressing (QRP) announced today that thirteen additional presses will soon go online at its Salina, Kansas facility after discovering them recently lying dormant in a Chicago warehouse.

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Mark Knopler Cuts a New Song to Analog Tape
Michael Fremer  |  Feb 20, 2015  |  36 comments
A reader forwarded a new video showing Mark Knopfler, who had recorded his share of albums digitally, back in the studio recording to analog tape using tube compressors to achieve the desired sound based on sound not necessarily the latest technology.
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Roxy Music Box Set Coming March 16th From Universal
Michael Fremer  |  Feb 12, 2015  |  77 comments
Roxy Music, the art-rock band that spawned the music careers of lead singer Bryan Ferry and producer, music experimenter (and who knows how to adequately describe him) Brian Eno will get the full and well deserved box set treatment from UMe.

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Neil Young: Vinyl Resurgence is "nothing but a fashion statement"
Michael Fremer  |  Feb 03, 2015  |  119 comments
According to U.K. music paper NME, Neil Young claimed during a recent interview on Frame, a California radio show, that vinyl is "nothing but a fashion statement."

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GZ Media Takes Its Latest "Fashion Statement" Down the Runway!
Michael Fremer  |  Feb 03, 2015  |  19 comments
When we announced last year that Czech Republic based GZ Media was pu
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Ultrasonicrecords Adds Dryer Cube to Compliment V-8 Cleaning Machine
Michael Fremer  |  Feb 03, 2015  |  41 comments
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Hand to Hand Combat!
Michael Fremer  |  Feb 02, 2015  |  28 comments
I got into it in the discussion section of a ridiculous Rolling Stone story. Why did I waste my time doing so? Because this is hand-to-hand combat folks! Get your hands dirty!

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"Deconstructed" Record Collection Now Online
Michael Fremer  |  Jan 23, 2015  |  18 comments

The record collection documented in the story "Deconstructing a Record Collection" can now be viewed online in its entirety in catalog form.

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Analogue Productions Releases First Wave of Beach Boys Albums
Michael Fremer  |  Jan 22, 2015  |  2 comments
Analogue Productions has released its first wave of mono and stereo Beach Boys albums.

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