Tracking Angle

Welcome to a unique platform with over 25 years of experience in music reviews and feature articles, both in print and online. The Tracking Angle launched its first issue in January 1995 as a compact, stapled music magazine focused on sound quality, under the editorial guidance of Michael Fremer. It rapidly evolved into a full-color, glossy magazine of standard size, showcasing an outstanding lineup of music critics and feature authors.

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AXPONA 2025 Video Coverage Part 4

5 days ago | trackingangle.com | Michael Fremer

miniaturization was trendyAXPONA 2025 Video 4 has plenty of analog but it also spotlights the miniaturization trend on display—at least among a few companies. In the Sound Organization room (Rega, Chord importers) you'll see the new miniature Chord Suzi modular system featuring a very small yet powerful stereo amplifier into which you can plug a preamp, or a DAC or a phono preamp total size that of shoe box.
AXPONA 2025 Video Coverage Part 3

1 week ago | trackingangle.com | Michael Fremer

even more to come!The beautiful J. Sikora turntable shown in the thumbnail below is not included in this video (it was featured in Video 1) but it's too beautiful to not feature so here it is. Video 3 isn't the final Tracking Angle video shot at AXPONA 2025. There's at least one more, perhaps 2. This video begins with the "exploded" version of Mo-Fi Electronics MasterDeck turntable. Designer Allen Perkins is on hand to explain what's been revealed in "the explosion".
The Zombies: Odessey, Oracle, and Other Oddities

1 week ago | trackingangle.com | Evan Toth

An Interview with Author Robin Platts About His BookIt may not be Halloween, but it’s always a frighteningly good time to discuss the Zombies— the UK-based rock band from the late 1960s that wrote and recorded seminal music that helped define the sound of those golden year—not the brain dead ghouls found skulking around after dark in your local cemetery. The Zombies found early success then found maintaining chart magic challenging.
AXPONA 2025 Video Coverage Day 2

1 week ago | trackingangle.com | Michael Fremer

many world and North American Premiers!The second of who knows how many videos it will take to cover AXPONA 2025 includes big news about the return of Koetsu cartridges, the world premier of the Alieno Phono Preamp from Italy, premiers of SME's new Model 8 and Model 35 turntables, the new Thales Reference turntable and Phono preamplifier American premiers, the first American presentation of the Supatrac Nighthawk tonearm and Revox's B77 MkIII and the special Alice Cooper model.
AXPONA 2025 Video Coverage Part 1

1 week ago | trackingangle.com | Michael Fremer

many new products introduced much fun was hadWith Sonic Presence microphones around my ears I dove into AXPONA 2025 expecting to capture binaural sound in every room. Unfortunately, Shure's Motiv app that worked beautifully at FLAX didn't work at all at AXPONA. Could have been an iPhone upgrade but with so many rooms to visit there was no time to find out!AXPONA 2025 was an extremely well-attended show. It was crowded all three days from morning through closing.
Stanley Cowell, Charles Rouse, Charles Tolliver’s Music Inc.: Strata-East’s Reissued Triage Displays The Label’s Range

2 weeks ago | trackingangle.com | Morgan Enos

AFTER A PHAROAH SANDERS RECORD STORE DAY REISSUE, THERE’S SO MUCH MORE TO THE STRATA-EAST CATALOGIf my previous Tracking Angle review — on the new Pharoah Sanders Izipho Zam reissue — framed Strata-East within so-called spiritual jazz, this trio of new vinyl pressings should shake loose any such pigeonholing.
Belleson Brilliance Phono Preamp Lives Up to its name

2 weeks ago | trackingangle.com | Michael Fremer

American designed and manufactured phono preamp with unique featuresThe initial interest draw here is a supplied Lenovo Tab M8 touchscreen remote, with Belleson’s visually attractive program installed, that lets you set all functionality from where you sit and listen. A powerful, unique convenience feature for sure, but it wouldn’t be sufficient to justify a review if that’s all that was tacked onto a ho-hum solid state phono preamplifier.
Acora Acoustics Granite Pyramid Is Worthy of the Sonic Gods

2 weeks ago | trackingangle.com | Michael Fremer

will Acora's "flagship" loudspeaker float your boat? “Stunning. They can hang out in the living room”. Forty reviewing years and that comment from wifey was a first! Her response early last Fall seeing the dramatically “painted by nature” Acora VRCs unpacked and sitting in the driveway in the early morning sun. The light made an already dazzling looking speaker look even more so.
Tracking Angle Looking To Add A Few Good Equipment Reviewers to Our Team

2 weeks ago | trackingangle.com | Michael Fremer

published experience helps, but not a requirement!Tracking Angle wants to add a few equipment reviewers to our already impressive writer roster. Published experience is not required, though it would be helpful. When I began writing for The Absolute Sound in 1986 it was as a music reviewer/editor but I wanted to review equipment.
Roman Holiday- The Glorious Sound of the Thrax Spartacus Amplifier and Libra Preamplifier

3 weeks ago | trackingangle.com | Jacob Heilbrunn

Founder and chief designer Rumen Artarski has one foot in pro, and the other in high performance consumer audioMaximinus Thrax, a Roman emperor from the third century before Christ, was supposedly eight feet tall and possessed of superhuman strength. It was a bold move for Rumen Artarski, the head of Thrax audio, to name his company after this legendary emperor, but he and it have more than lived up to the challenge.