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Mikey Interviewed at ListenUp in Denver CO May 2012
Michael Fremer  |  Jun 27, 2012  |  First Published: Dec 31, 1969
I was in Colorado last month doing in-store appearances at audio dealer ListenUp. Events were held at their stores in Denver, Boulder and Colorado Springs.
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Turntable Reviews
The Anvil "Alloy Convertible" Turntable—Motor City Metal Machine Magic!
Michael Fremer  |  Jun 21, 2012  |  First Published: Dec 31, 1969
The two basic turntable design approaches are low mass that quickly evacuates energy and high mass that sinks and damps energy. Both designs seek to avoid reflecting back into the system the considerable energy produced at the stylus/groove interface.

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DMM or Lacquer? Which is Better?
Michael Fremer  |  Jun 20, 2012  |  First Published: Dec 31, 1969
Dear Mikey: "I was wondering what your opinion of DMM is, I search the analogplanet archives and couldn't see anything one way or another.
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Album Reviews
Talk Talk's 1991 Sonic Spectacular Gets First American Vinyl Issue
Michael Fremer  |  Jun 19, 2012
Talk Talk's Mark Hollis may have long ago retired from the music business, but his musical legacy prospers and grows. A near cult-like devotion hovers around the group's records as succeeding generations discover his dense, probing, faith-based cogitations. The intensity and strength of his spiritual commitment was matched only by the forcefulness of his later "spirited" rejection.

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"Ask Mikey" Fires Up With Questions About USB Microscopes, the Quality of Ron McMaster's Lacquer Cutting, Etc.
Michael Fremer  |  Jun 15, 2012  |  First Published: Dec 31, 1969
What is the name of the USB microscope you use? Brand and resolution?
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Mikey Does Video Podcast With Home Theater's Scott Wilkinson
Michael Fremer  |  Jun 14, 2012  |  First Published: Dec 31, 1969
Mikey cuts loose on the superiority of vinyl on this new video podcast using his unbelievably unflattering MacBook Pro camera. The chatroom digiphiles went crazy!
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Album Reviews
ORG Reinvents Heavy Weather
Michael Fremer  |  Jun 13, 2012
Jazz Fusion may have turned out to be a dead end genre exiled to The Weather Channel's 24 hour forecast, but at its inception arguably with the group Weather Report, the sun shone brightly on its possibilities. How ironic that the jazz offshoot took off with Weather Report and dead-ended on TWC!

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Album Reviews
Acoustic Dead Album Puts You Right On Stage
Michael Fremer  |  Jun 12, 2012
Who knew vinyl lovers were such Deadheads? The labels doing the reissuing hope you are. There are recent studio reissues from Warner Brothers/Rhino and Analogue Productions and live recordings from Mobile Fidelity and Analogue Productions including this one from AP.

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Album Reviews
Gene Clark Album That Wasn't, Finally Is
Michael Fremer  |  Jun 11, 2012
Gene Clark owed A&M an album in 1972 and so to fulfill his contract he did what most artists do in such circumstances: he decided to make one for himself.

Graham Parker kissed off his label with an album called Mercury Poisoning. Van Morrison owed one to Bert Berns' Bang label. Berns had died but Van, who had had a volatile relationship with Bert and was anxious to go to Warner Brothers and record Astral Weeks, handed his grieving widow Eileen an unreleasable album containing the ten songs and the publishing rights thereto. The songs—actually a series of short ridiculous and nonsensical jams— had titles like "Blow In Your Nose," "Nose in Your Blow," and "Ringworm."

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Alcohol and Vinyl: A Deadly Mix!
Michael Fremer  |  Jun 11, 2012  |  First Published: Dec 31, 1969
An Australian record store owner recently had an idea: why not mix vinyl and alcohol? Thanks to changes in the liquor laws in Sydney, MOJO Music's Neville Sergent opened MOJO Record Bar. (Photo by Peter Rae)

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