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1 week ago | trackingangle.com | Michael Fremer

that "groundbreaker" being the A90Ortofon celebrated its 90th anniversary by launching in 2009 the MC A90 ($4200) a revolutionary moving coil phono cartridge, the first to use SLM (Selective Laser Melting) to 3D "spray" an impossible to machine-shaped body using melted stainless steel powder. The result was a highly rigid, dense, low resonance minimalist body that resembled no other cartridge. The A90 also made use of a newly developed remarkably "dead" elastomer used in the damper.

2 weeks ago | trackingangle.com | Michael Fremer

now stopped by inanimate objectI was working on a Roger Nichols obit. He wrote "We've Only Just Begun" for The Carpenters and so much more. The album on the left was produced by Tommy LiPuma, arrangements by Marty Paich among others, engineered by Larry Levine and Henry Lewy, Bruce Botnick involved along with Randy Newman and Van Dyke Parks. Was going to be interesting. Then Sly Stone died. So I started writing him into it. Such an interesting guy.

2 weeks ago | trackingangle.com | Jeff Rosen |Dylan Peggin

An electrifying debut album from Boston’s up-and-coming rockersBoston, a city rooted in rock and roll lore, has served as home base for giants like Aerosmith, The Cars, The J. Geils Band, and of course the aptly named Boston. The Freight is one of the more noteworthy groups on the city’s growing up-and-coming artists roster. The foursome formed in 2020 has an ever increasing New England following and for two consecutive years was nominated for "Rock Act of the Year" by the New England Music Awards.

2 weeks ago | trackingangle.com | Michael Fremer |Dylan Peggin |Jason Kennedy |Abigail Devoe

In Heavy Rotation June 11th, 2025 "Exodus" at 45rpm, Pressed UHQR Produces an Explosive Mixso many mediocre Bob Marley & The Wailer reissues...this is not one of them!By: Michael Fremer May 20th, 2025 Touring Life & The Studio Work to Jethro Tull’s “Benefit”Analogue Productions reissues the underdog of the group’s catalogBy: Dylan Peggin May 12th, 2025 Michell Audio Apollo phono preamplifier and Muse power supplyour man in the U.K. delivers background not likely to come from a YankBy: Jason...

2 weeks ago | trackingangle.com | Tom Dowd |Chris Bellman |Michael Fremer

mono mix is definitiveRhino Records' new Reserve series, sold direct from the Rhino online storeare cut from original master tapes by Chris Bellman at Bernie Grundman Mastering and pressed at Fidelity Record Pressing in Oxnard, CA. Most are not in the sonic realm of the "High Fidelity" series but most musically surely are, including this one. They cost $31.98, which, when taking inflation into account, means these sell for around $6.00 more than what they originally sold for.