Michael Fremer

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"Woodstock The Director's Cut" Coming For One Night to a Theater Near You!
Michael Fremer  |  Jul 22, 2019  |  First Published: Jul 22, 2019  |  5 comments
Hard to believe 50 years have passed (well maybe not that hard to believe), but here we are (well, most of us anyway!). On Thursday, August 15th, theaters nationwide will bring back to movie theaters for the first time since it first opened, March, 1970. However, this will be the 3 hours and 44 minute "Director's Cut" version never before screened in theaters (there will be a single, short intermission).

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Creedence Clearwater Revival Live at Woodstock 50 Years Later on 2 LPs
Michael Fremer  |  Jul 18, 2019  |  First Published: Jul 18, 2019  |  25 comments
It looks like the 50th anniversary of Woodstock concert is off, but Craft Recordings celebrates anyway with the release on August 2nd,, finally of Live At Woodstock CCR's late Sunday evening performance at the original Woodstock, 1969.

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Features
AnalogPlanet Tours darTZeel Factory in Geneva, Switzerland
Michael Fremer  |  Jul 18, 2019  |  First Published: Jul 18, 2019  |  17 comments
If you search Stereophile's website under darTZeel founder Hervé Delétraz's name you'll find his multi-part "DIY" story posted in 2000. Since his "DIY" days, Mr. Delétraz has gone on to design and manufacture a series of sonically stunning and visually distinctive high performance darTZeel audio products.

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Third Man To Release on 2, 2 LP Volumes First Ever Music From Ann Arbor Blues Festival 1969
Michael Fremer  |  Jul 09, 2019  |  First Published: Jul 09, 2019  |  5 comments
Third Man Records will release on Friday August 2nd, previously unheard live recordings from the 1969 Ann Arbor Blues Festival. The 50th anniversary release includes live performances from Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters, Son House, B.B. King, Magic Sam, T-Bone Walker, James Cotton, Junior Wells, Big Mama Thornton, Otis Rush and many others.

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Album Reviews
After the Outrage: UMe's Birth of the Cool Reissue Reconsidered
Michael Fremer  |  Jul 06, 2019  |  19 comments
After calming down following the original Birth of the Cool review I took a deep breath and listened again. What's more i realized I had two more versions of the record: a Dutch Odeon pressing (lime green Capitol label) from 1972 (5C052 80 798) with a different cover that you can pick up on Discogs for a few bucks, and a mysterious one from I believe a German label called Good Buy (Good Buy 2 F 671045) released around the same time as Classic's, which remains the best sounding available and so costs well over $100 on Discogs.

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Analog Gear News
Buzzcocks a different kind of tension Reissued by Domino
Michael Fremer  |  Jul 05, 2019  |  7 comments
Domino has just re-issued two of The Buzzcocks’ four albums with the sticker on the masterful classic a different kind of tension reading “Sourcing the original ¼” tapes for the first time since the original 1979 release.”

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Cartridge Reviews
With the Donatello Gold MC Cartridge Gold Note Plays “The Price Is Right” (Revised)
Michael Fremer  |  Jul 05, 2019  |  First Published: Jul 05, 2019  |  28 comments
The first item up for bids today on “The Price is Right” is Gold Note’s Donatello Gold moving coil cartridge! Vacuous bimbette hostess, tell us all about it!

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BeatlesCan I Have My Money Back?
Michael & Malachi Exchange Thoughts on, Among Other Things, QRP’s “White Album” Pressing
Michael Fremer,  |  Jul 03, 2019  |  First Published: Jul 03, 2019  |  18 comments
Malachi Lui: First and foremost, let’s note that while this is a review of Quality Record Pressings’ version of the Beatles “White Album” 2018 stereo mix, it’s really more of an excuse for me to humiliate Michael in the best ways as much as possible (laughs).

(For those who don't know, QRP pressed the 2 LP set worldwide. Optimal in Germany, pressed the 4 LP box set worldwide, containing the original 2 LP set plus the 2 LP Escher demos).

Michael Fremer: Always up for that! It’s a way of life.

ML: If you weren’t up for it, then I’d force you to be!

MF: Of course you would!

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Album Reviews
UMe's Birth of the Cool Is A Sonic Abortion And a Reissue Disgrace
Michael Fremer  |  Jul 02, 2019  |  29 comments
First off, UMe touts this reissue as "...newly remastered from the original 1949 analog tapes for the first time since 1957." That's nonsense: Bernie Grundman cut this from the original analog tapes for Classic Records back in the 2000s. And I believe the RVG CD did as well (correct me if I'm wrong). Facts matter.

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Features
AnalogPlanet Visits CH Precision in the Heart of Swiss Watch Making Country
Michael Fremer  |  Jun 30, 2019  |  First Published: Jun 30, 2019  |  18 comments
Following "Making Vinyl Berlin" and a week before "High End Munich 2019" AnalogPlanet editor Michael Fremer visited high performance Switzerland-based electronics manufacturer CH Precision (among others). This is the first posted video from that trip.

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