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Wilson Audiophile Recordings Series Reissues From Analogue Productions
Michael Fremer  |  Feb 10, 2018
Beginning in the late ‘70s, continuing throughout the 1980s and once in 1994 Wilson Audio Specialties founder Dave Wilson released a series of records that he co-produced with wife Sheryl Lee, many of which he also engineered. They were minimally miked—often a spaced pair of Schoeps was all—and mastered by an all-star lineup of disc cutters including Bruce Leek (who also shared engineering credit on some), Stan Ricker and Doug Sax (Google if any of the names are unfamiliar). The tape machine for all but the very early organ record Recital (Wilson W-278) was an Ultramaster™ by John Curl, a highly modified Studer 1/2" deck running at 30 IPS.

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Mobile Fidelity Announces One-Step Double 45rpm "Bridge Over Troubled Water"
Michael Fremer  |  Jan 22, 2018
Mobile Fidelity just announced the availability for order of its Bridge Over Troubled Water reissue, produced as a limited to 7500 copies "one-step" double 45rpm release.

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UHQR Returns, This Time From Analogue Productions Starting With Jimi Hendrix Classics
Michael Fremer  |  Dec 01, 2017
50 years to the day of its original release in both mono and stereo, Analogue Productions announces tomorrow the UHQR reissues of Jimi Hendrix's epic Axis: Bold As Love, newly remastered from the original analog master tapes by Bernie Grundman. Click that hyperlink and watch Bernie at work cutting!

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Don't Try This on CD! #1 (First in a Series)
Michael Fremer  |  Oct 25, 2017
Here's a vinyl transcription at 96/24 of "Rocks Off" from an original Artisan mastered copy of Exile on Main Street. After the band finished their overdubs in Los Angeles they ran the tape over to Artisan for vinyl mastering. This is the version to own.

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Two Classic My Bloody Valentine Records To Be Issued All-Analog
Michael Fremer  |  Oct 07, 2017
My Bloody Valentine albums Isn't Anything and Loveless, originally released in 1988 and 1991 on Creation Records, are being reissued all-analog under the supervision of founding member/producer Kevin Shields through his own label.

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Kevin Gray Cuts AAA Series For Speakers Corner
Michael Fremer  |  Jun 08, 2017
At his Masters of Vinyl seminar at LAAS 2017 mastering engineer Kevin Gray mentioned that he'd cut a series of records for Speakers Corner using original master tapes.

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Fans Demand More Blue Notes From Music Matters!
Michael Fremer  |  Mar 11, 2017
A group of determined fans of both the Blue Note jazz catalog and the Music Matters reissues, which are always done from tape and done correctly recently started a drive to convince the label to issue more of Blue Notes after the label apparently decided it had released a sufficient number.

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Technics SL-1200G Versus Continuum Caliburn And SAT Arm--File Identities Revealed
Michael Fremer  |  Feb 11, 2017
The file labels were not reversed in this story!

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Three Percussion Records You Should Own
Michael Fremer  |  Jan 26, 2017
Pictured are three percussion records you should own—especially if you feel like banging your head against the wall. One is an "oldie" Living Stereo novelty that's back in print, one was originally released in 1984 thanks to a grant from The National Endowment For the Arts (today an endangered species) reissued in the 1990s and one is a current release.

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Direct to Disc Brahms Symphony Cycle From Berlin Philharmonic
Michael Fremer  |  Nov 23, 2016
Sir Simon Rattle conducts Brahms: The Berlin Philharmonic performs the four Brahms symphonies conducted by Rattle and recorded live at the Berlin Philharmonie direct to disc September, 2014 using a One-Point microphone set-up.

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Two Tom Petty Box Sets Coming Soon, Commemorating 40th Anniversary of Debut
Michael Fremer  |  Oct 25, 2016
In a cross-label move similar to the Stones stereo box sets from ABKCO and UMe, Tom Petty's complete vinyl catalog will be issued in two 180gram box sets: one featuring his MCA output (1976-1991) and one covering his later Warner Brothers catalog (1994-2014).

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Ten LP Kinks Mono Box Cut by Kevin Gray From Original Analog Masters
Michael Fremer  |  Oct 18, 2016
A "Kinks in Mono" box set is due for release overseas shortly and in America on December 16th.

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Jalopy Records' Subscription AAA Vinyl Kickstarter Project Needs Help Now!
Michael Fremer  |  Oct 10, 2016
Here's an all-analog record subscription series you might be interested in helping.

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The Beach Boys: The Final Nine Analogue Productions Reissues
Michael Fremer  |  Sep 09, 2016
Analogue Productions recently completed one of the major reissue projects in modern vinyl playback history with the release of the final eight Beach Boys albums in both mono and stereo.

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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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