The listening glory is all ours with the latest pair of top-shelf releases from Rhino’s High Fidelity (Hi-Fi) series. Television’s...
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Two Seminal Early 1970s John Cale LPs, Paris 1919 and The Academy in Peril, Benefit From Artist-Approved Reissue LPs From Domino
In the aftermath of leaving The Velvet Underground in 1968, the Welsh-born composer, musician, producer, and all-around avant-garde icon John...
Seen at CES 2025: Victrola Automatic, Wave, Stream Onyx, Harmony, and Journey Glow Turntables
Today, we continue onward with our survey of the analog-centric gear being shown at CES 2025, which officially got underway...
Seen at CES 2025: Lenco LBT-215BK, LBTA-165BK/165WD, and LS-570WA Turntables & TTA-080SI Record Stabilizer
While there isn’t as much analog gear on display at CES 2025 as there used to be, some companies are...
Steely Dan’s 1975 Masterpiece Katy Lied Getting Full 200g 45rpm 2LP UHQR Treatment on January 31
You can see it in their eyes, but is it really any surprise to learn that we are finally getting...
Short Cuts, Vol. 19: Six Great, Recently Reissued 180g LPs From Blues Giants Albert King, Jimmy Reed, Lightnin’ Hopkins, Skip James, Blind Gary Davis, and B.B. King
I was talking with a serious record collector friend recently, and our discussion turned the current wave of sophisticated reissues...
Musical Fidelity M6xTT Turntable
Welcome to 2025, fellow analog lovers! We here at AP hope everyone had a safe, happy, healthy, and fun holiday...
Rega Nd3 & Nd5 Moving Magnet Cartridges
When the UK’s largest turntable manufacturer releases three new moving magnet (MM) cartridges, analog geeks like me can’t wait to...
Jazz Vocal Phenomenon Samara Joy Continues to Impress With Her Latest LP, Portrait
Samara Joy, a mere 25 years old, has ascended to extraordinary heights in the jazz world — and rightly so....
The Gruvy Awards: AnalogPlanet Selects the Best Reviewed Products of 2024
The Gruvy Awards are back yet again! An annual event, The Gruvys are given to the best products AnalogPlanet reviewed...
AnalogPlanet’s Top LPs of 2024
Another year of LP acquiring, cleaning, listening, archiving, and spinning, and archiving has come and gone — and not necessarily...
Elvis Costello Delivers a Pair of Royal Album Collaborations With T Bone Burnett: The First Is The Coward Brothers’ All-New Eponymous 2LP Set, the Other Is a 1LP Reissue of His 1986 Costello Show Masterpiece, King of America
I didn’t have a new album from Elvis Costello and T Bone Burnett on my 2024 checklist — but here...
Connected Fidelity TT Hub Turntable
Sierra Sound has just announced they are the official U.S. distributor for Connected Fidelity products, including the British company’s flagship...
Best Reissues of 2024: Art Alexakis on Why Intervention Records’ Truly Wonderful 140g 1LP Edition of Everclear’s Songs From an American Movie Vol. One: Learning How to Smile Sounds Exactly Like He Originally Intended
So Much for the Perspective: Everclear, all stretched out in a detailed section of the Songs From an American Movie...
Tis The Season to Spin Vinyl, Part 2: Some of Our Favorite Vintage Holiday LP Chestnuts Worth Adding to Your “Nice” List
Yesterday (December 11, 2024), I shared Part 1 of my holiday LPs shopping list, which you can read right here....
T Bone Burnett, NeoFidelity, Inc., and Julien’s Auctions Announce Exclusive Partnership for Forthcoming, One-of-One Ionic Original Releases
The answer, my friends, is blowin’ in the grooves. Today (December 12, 2024), Julien’s Auctions announced an exclusive partnership with...
Tis The Season to Spin Vinyl, Part 1: Eight New Holiday LPs to Add to Your Shopping List
A good holiday recording can elevate an artist to legendary stature, becoming a perennial stable income stream for the act...
Capital Audiofest 2024 Highlights, Part 9: Command Performance AV Remembers the ’80s, Starring Modern-Day Gear From J.Sikora, Aidas, Lyra, Doshi Audio, Audiovector, REL Acoustics, Cardas Audio, and HRS
We’re going back to the future, if you will, with Part 9 of my Capital Audiofest 2024 show report. Let’s...
New Rhino Reserves Premium Vinyl Series Launches on January 31, 2025, With Allen Toussaint’s Southern Nights and Eddie Hazel’s Game, Dames And Guitar Thangs AAA 180g LPs
Sure to go running through your soul, like the stories told of old: Today (December 10, 2024), Rhino announces the...
Capital Audiofest 2024 Highlights, Part 8: VPI, Audio Research, Revox, PureAudioProject, and Luminous Audio Technology
We continue diving headlong into December with Part 8 of my Capital Audiofest 2024 show report. Let’s get right back...
The Beatles’ 1964 U.S. Albums in Mono 180g 8LP Box Set Offers All-Analog Updates That Will Appeal to Enthusiasts and Newbies Alike
In the Beatleverse, it is generally well known and quite accepted that the mono mixes of the early Beatles recordings...
Listening Session Impressions of Miles Davis’ New Birth of the Blue 180g 1LP at All Blues in NYC
Last night (i.e., December 4, 2024), a select group of journalists gathered at the All Blues listening bar in New...
Capital Audiofest 2024 Highlights, Part 7: Archer High Fidelity, Cambridge Audio, Audio-Technica, and Analysis Plus
Hope everyone enjoyed the Thanksgiving break! We’re now back on track to lean into December with Part 7 of my...
Pro-Ject Tube Box DS3 B Phono Preamp
Into the hi-fi audio fray strides the dual-mono, balanced, Pro-Ject Tube Box DS3 B tube phono preamp ($1,099) — yet...
Record Store Day, Black Friday 2024: AP’s Top 10 Picks for RSD 2024, Coming to an Indie Record Shop Near You on November 29
Record Store Day 2024, the Black Friday edition, is soon upon us — just two days from now on November...
Capital Audiofest 2024 Highlights, Part 6: Robyatt Audio, VPI, Bird of Prey, Tzar, Java Hi-Fi, and Quad
Welcome to Part 6 of my Capital Audiofest 2024 show report, the last installment before the Thanksgiving holiday takes full...
Andy Summers on His Most Arresting Guitar Moments With The Police on Vinyl, Plus the Possibility of Reissuing and Expanding His Ambient 1980s Collaborations With King Crimson’s Robert Fripp
Summers Patterns: Andy Summers stares into the eye of creativity, in B&W. Photo courtesy the artist himself. The first word...
In Review: Pete Townshend’s New Abbey Road Half-Speed-Mastered 180g Vinyl Series Revisits, Restores, and Reissues Two of His Underappreciated Late-Period Solo Classics: The Iron Man and Psychoderelict
As the 1980s gave way to the 1990s, legendary British Invasion songwriter, singer, guitarist, and all-around rock icon Pete Townshend...
Capital Audiofest 2024 Highlights, Part 5: Pure Fidelity, Falcon Acoustics, and Lab12
Welcome to Part 5 of my Capital Audiofest 2024 show report! And off we go. . . PURE FIDELITY (CONTINUED)...
Capital Audiofest 2024 Highlights, Part 4: Pure Fidelity, Vandersteen, EMM Labs, DS Audio, AudioQuest
Welcome to Part 4 of my Capital Audiofest 2024 show report! And away we go. . . PURE FIDELITY Hi-fi...
Capital Audiofest 2024 Highlights, Part 3: Thuono, Grandinote, Kimber Kable
Welcome to Part 3 of my Capital Audiofest 2024 show report! Let’s jump right on into it. THUONO Among the...
Capital Audiofest 2024 Highlights, Part 2: Perpetuum Ebner, Ortofon, Phasemation, Synthesis, Rethm
Welcome to Part 2 of my Capital Audiofest 2024 show report! Let’s get right to it. PERPETUUM EBNER Here at...
Capital Audiofest 2024 Highlights, Part 1: Belleson, Rega, Linear Tube Audio, Anticables
A post-election visit to the Washington, DC, metro area for the 2024 edition of Capital Audiofest (a.k.a. CAF) brought plenty...
Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers’ Transitional 1982 Album Long After Dark Deserves a Full Reassessment, Thanks to Newly Remastered, Expanded 180g 2LP Deluxe Edition
Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers’ November 1982 LP on Backstreet/MCA, Long After Dark, was not exactly everyone’s immediate favorite back...
Andover Audio SpinBase 2 Turntable Speaker System
Here at AP, when it comes to gear coverage, we try to balance our admitted high-end proclivities with some more...
Analogue Productions to Release Miles Davis’ Birth of the Blue, the Historic First Recording Session With the Kind of Blue Band, as a 180g LP on December 13; NYC Playback Session Set for December 4
There are landmark LPs, and then there is Kind of Blue, Miles Davis’ indisputable August 1959 masterpiece on Columbia. As...
Capital Audiofest 2024: Turntables? We Got Your Turntables!
Last week, Capital Audiofest ruled large in the Washington, DC area from November 8-10, 2024 — and, as always, I...