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4 days ago | trackingangle.com | Michael Fremer

hear from the gentlemen designing the productsOrtofon''s Leif Johanssen runs through the new MC-X moving coil cartridge line, explains the design goals and provides all of the details. At appx.

1 week ago | trackingangle.com | Steve Genewick |Kevin Gray |Michael Fremer

live at Frank's studio to Studer A827 24 track, mixed at 30 IPS to 1/2" tape on Ampex ATR-100 Recording a big band album live to analog tape in the studio Frank Sinatra had Bill Putnam build for him when he started Reprise Records, then Western Recorders, now East/West, engineered by Steve Genewick--long time Al Schmitt associate (etc.)--and mixed to 1/2" tape at 30 IPS on an Ampex ATR-100 at The Village Studios and then lacquer cut by Kevin Gray at Cohearent Audio from that tape two months...

1 week ago | trackingangle.com | Michael Fremer

Munich goes out with an analog bang!Wow! Analog went out with a big high tech bang at Munich High End 2025. This is my second show video covering analog news and it's far from the final one. Due to Euro dollar variations and a volatile tariff strewn world marketplace all prices here are approximate. The final Munich High End show—the capper to a 21 year run—was filled with new analog gear from an Airon TH1 American-made $36,000 unipivot air bearing pivoted tonearm...

2 weeks ago | trackingangle.com | Michael Fremer

a clickbait imageWednesday night and last night (Wednesday May 21st and May 22nd), Maier Shadi's The Audio Salon, Santa Monica, hosted an event celebrating Acoustic Sounds'  founder Chad Kassem, who was in town visiting record company executives, band management and others for obvious reasons. Kassem was coy about who he met and what recordings he was seeking for future Analogue Productions LPs, SACDs and R2R tapes, but he did say the trip, capped off by these two evenings, was successful.

2 weeks ago | trackingangle.com | Michael Fremer

and listen to the speakers in binaural sound (wear headphones)Press conferences are generally off limits to consumers, so I thought I'd "invite" you to this one hosted for the press by Marten Audio the Swedish loudspeaker manufacturer—one of the few press conferences I managed to attend. Why? There was so much new and exciting analog gear to cover, I hardly had time for press conferences—I'm working on another all-analog gear video.