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MPS Reissues '70s Era Jazz Classics AAA
Michael Fremer  |  Aug 11, 2016
The German MPS label has just released five excellent jazz albums originally released in the early 1970s under the supervision of noted German audio journalist and record producer Dirk Sommer. All have been mastered AAA from the original master tapes by mastering engineer Christoph Stickel, who was responsible for the Oscar Peterson box set Exclusively For My Friends.

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The Rolling Stones Mono Box Set From ABKCO Coming September 30th (Updated again)
Michael Fremer  |  Aug 10, 2016
ABKCO today announced the long expected Rolling Stones16 LP MONO box set, due September 30th.

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Electric Recording Company Announces Next Leonid Kogan Reissue
Michael Fremer  |  Aug 09, 2016
The Electric Recording Company announced today a third Leonid Kogan reissue.

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AnalogPlanet Radio Shows Now All Accessible Under One "Roof"
Michael Fremer  |  Aug 03, 2016
Analogplanet Radio was introduced here a year ago today. Now on the first anniversary of that announcement all of the WFMU HD Radio shows can be accessed in one place on the Analogplanet website.

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Were Approximately 75,000,000 LP Records Pressed Worldwide in 2015?
Michael Fremer  |  Aug 01, 2016
I received a spread sheet earlier in the year estimating how many records would be pressed in 2016. The total was well in excess of 80,000,000 (yes, eighty million).

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"All Things Must Pass" The Tower Records Story Coming to DVD September 13
Michael Fremer  |  Aug 01, 2016
"All Things Must Pass", the must-see documentary on the rise and fall of the Tower Records chain, comes to DVD September 13th through MVD

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"Who Can I Be Now?" 13 LP David Bowie Box Set Coming in September
 |  Aug 01, 2016
The second David Bowie box set centered around his so-called "American Period" ships in September.

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How Audio-Technica Builds the ART1000 MC Phono Cartridge (price and tech correction)
Michael Fremer  |  Jul 16, 2016
During my visit to Audio-Technica in Machida City, Tokyo, Japan, I was I given a tour of the factory, which mostly produces microphones along with some headphone components. Other than the new ART1000, all of the cartridge manufacturing and assembly takes place either at another factory in Fukui, Japan or at an Audio-Technica owned factory in China.

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Check Out Koizumi-San's 45rpm Record Collection
Michael Fremer  |  Jul 16, 2016
Yosuke Koizumi, 36, who took over the ART 1000's final production supervision brought some of his 45rpm collection on the second day of my visit...perhaps to assure me that he's way into vinyl and not just doing a "job”.
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Analogplanet Visits Audio-Technica Headquarters, Machida, Japan
Michael Fremer  |  Jul 15, 2016
Analogplanet recently visited Audio-Technica’s new Machida, Japan headquarters opened in 2015 to learn more about the fifty four year old company founded by the late Hideo Matsushita, and today run by his son company President Kazuo.

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Audio-Technica ART 1000 Cartridge Designer Mitsuo Miyata Interviewed
Michael Fremer  |  Jul 15, 2016
Analogplanet reported from Munich's High End 2016 show on Audio-Technics's "evolutionary" new ART1000 phono cartridge.

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Amazing Sophia Pfister Update
Michael Fremer  |  Jul 11, 2016
The response to the Sophia Pfister story and YouTube video has been incredible.

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What I Learned at the First Ever McIntosh Group Convention
Michael Fremer  |  Jul 05, 2016
Last week, McIntosh Group Inc. CEO and chief visionary Mauro Grange invited a few hundred guests to Forte Village a luxury resort on the Italian Island of Sardinia for five days of work and fun.

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So You Want to Buy a Record Store?
Michael Fremer  |  Jul 01, 2016
Classic Records founder and current owner of Elite Distribution as well as the record store High Fidelity in the Los Feliz area of Los Angeles is looking to sell the store.

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Audio Research Launches New Foundation Series at WOM Convention
Michael Fremer  |  Jun 30, 2016
—Sardinia, Italy, July 28th: Plymouth, Minnesota-based Audio Research introduced to its dealers and distributors at WOM (World of McIntosh) Convention its new lower priced Foundation line of tube electronics. The three pieces were on static display at the Munich High End Show, but here they played in a system with a pair of Sonus Faber Il Cremonese speakers.

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