Michael Fremer Joins The Absolute Sound

[Vinylfan]

Easily the best deal I have done so far in my role. We have some really cool and exclusive content lined up for the Summer and Fall.

Eminent Audio Reviewer Michael Fremer Returns to The Absolute Sound - The Absolute Sound

Eminent Audio Reviewer Michael Fremer Returns to The Absolute Sound - Nextscreen, LLC, producers of The Absolute Sound network, the hi-fi+ network and the Winding Road network, are pleased to announce that highly-respected audio journalist Michael Fremer has joined The Absolute Sound network as...

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[Lee]

Is the absolute sound available through a Kindle subscription?

No, but we are available on the Zinio platform.

 

[Lee]

Hi @Lee -- a quick TAS question. Is there an index or list of the table of contents for each issue?

In issue 94 there is an HP article titled 'The Essay Part III'. I'm looking for parts 1-2 and the promised part 4.

I don't know but maybe can ask Robert Harley.

 

[Lee]

Michael Fremer's first video on his new YouTube TrackingAngle channel is now out. Check it out and hit the Subscribe button!

 

[tima]

I don't know but maybe can ask Robert Harley.

Thanks.

I've always been surprised that TAS sees little value in its back issues. The lack of an index of tables of contents is indicative. Back issues could be put on disk for sale. Or put on the Web where they could be searched under a subscription. Or curated to tie articles together that span volumes. I'm curious why this has not been done? Current editions could have amazing cover art as past issues had.

 

[Lee]

Thanks.

I've always been surprised that TAS sees little value in its back issues. The lack of an index of tables of contents is indicative. Back issues could be put on disk for sale. Or put on the Web where they could be searched under a subscription. Or curated to tie articles together that span volumes. I'm curious why this has not been done? Current editions could have amazing cover art as past issues had.

Tim,

We have not determined that we lack such an index. But we have to run a profitable business. If there is enough demand, we will put more back issues on Zinio. We have been around since 1973 so it can be very expensive to digitize everything.

Give me some time to do some research.

 

[rando]

51K subscribers - "I expect to be able to do that pretty quickly."
00,039 and counting
Will be an interesting footnote what date he meets that claim

Congrats on the new channel and many more years of TrackingAngle.
I hope you actually do interview some of the characters involved with your long list of albums.

 

[Lee]

51K subscribers - "I expect to be able to do that pretty quickly."
00,027 and counting
Will be an interesting footnote what date he meets that claim

Congrats on the new channel and many more years of TrackingAngle.
I hope you actually do interview some of the characters involved with your long list of albums.

I think Michael will succeed given how well known he is. We have a ton of cool stuff in store too that only he could pull off. He has a ton of access to musicians and the industry.

 

[Al Stewart]

I think Michael has already succeeded. IMO he is a great combination of knowledge, humor and chutzpah--the good kind. Congratulations, Lee. Good get.

 

[Lee]

I think Michael has already succeeded. IMO he is a great combination of knowledge, humor and chutzpah--the good kind. Congratulations, Lee. Good get.

Thank you Al, much appreciated.

 

[rando]

TrackingAngle Visits Welcome to 1979, Nashville​

 

[rando]

Lee can vet this post and make any conflicts known. Which I will respect.

Pulled up TA youtube Friday morning and saw subscribers at 2.7K up from a few hundred. By last night it was 3.2 and currently sits at 3.61K.

Anyways, that flurry of two channel views in a day produced awareness an interview of MF uploaded yesterday by a Canadian dealer by an audiophile and MoFi release reviewer at a Canadian dealer who sponsors his videos. A thought was given towards some here potentially having interest in the topic of digital to analog.

 

[thedudeabides]

One of the true icons of audio reviewers. And my understanding, absent wire, he has purchased most of his system. Very little in the "long term loan" category.

 

[Don_Camillo]

Wasn't he the one who always claimed to be capable to detect clearly digital and analogue? Demonstrably, he didn´t recognize the DSD at MoFi. Hopefully he won´t going to be a burden to Absolute Sound.

At the same time, the Mo-Fi scandal points at the veracy of any review made by ear. None of the aspects expressed in those reviews need to be true or can be proven by ear. Some of those reviews by ear can also be fundamentally wrong as the scandal shows.
How will Absolute Sound deal with this topic in the future?

P.S.: @Lee would be nice to get that answered. What will be the TAS policy about how reviews will be done and validated in your magazine in future?

 

[Don_Camillo]

@Lee : When he shot at Mr. Esposito of The 'In' Groove again here he emphasized beeing a journalist. But journalists do not believe but check and report on facts. He obviously didn´t.

How will TAS deal with this?

By the way, to me the new article about MoFi is higly problematic. This article disqualifies good journalism

 

[Audire]

Wasn't he the one who always claimed to be capable to detect clearly digital and analogue? Demonstrably, he didn´t recognize the DSD at MoFi. Hopefully he won´t going to be a burden to Absolute Sound.

At the same time, the Mo-Fi scandal points at the veracy of any review made by ear. None of the aspects expressed in those reviews need to be true or can be proven by ear. Some of those reviews by ear can also be fundamentally wrong as the scandal shows.
How will Absolute Sound deal with this topic in the future?

P.S.: @Lee would be nice to get that answered. What will be the TAS policy about how reviews will be done and validated in your magazine in future?

On the MoFi thread I posted this:

I make fun of Fremer (but really enjoy what he says most of the time), but he was not fooled by digital records. He states as much beginning at app 44 minutes in on this video made in 2020. The entire video is worth listening too.

Webinar: State of the Vinyl Industry with Michael Fremer

 

[Ron Resnick]

Wasn't he the one who always claimed to be capable to detect clearly digital and analogue? Demonstrably, he didn´t recognize the DSD at MoFi.

I think we de-bunked this assertion at https://www.whatsbestforum.com/thre...ues-have-a-digital-step-in-the-process.35221/

Please post for us the instances (your “always” implies multiple instances) where Michael “claimed to be capable to detect clearly digital and analogue.”

 

[Don_Camillo]

I make fun of Fremer (but really enjoy what he says most of the time), but he was not fooled by digital records. He states as much beginning at app 44 minutes in on this video made in 2020. The entire video is worth listening too.

Webinar: State of the Vinyl Industry with Michael Fremer

Thanks for sharing. At 44:52 ff he even admits indirectly that he knew exactly what was going on when he refers to the great article written by a mastering engineer. So he wasn't a victim, as he always tries to portray, but a perpetrator. He is a front-row protagonist in the MoFi scandal.

 

[Ron Resnick]

@Lee : When he shot at Mr. Esposito of The 'In' Groove again here he emphasized beeing a journalist. But journalists do not believe but check and report on facts. He obviously didn´t.

How will TAS deal with this?

By the way, to me the new article about MoFi is higly problematic. This article disqualifies good journalism

I truly do not understand what this post is about. We discuss Mike Esposito’s fluffy questions to, and meandering “interview” of, the Mobile Fidelity recording engineers at https://www.whatsbestforum.com/thre...ues-have-a-digital-step-in-the-process.35221/

We also discuss the written questions and answers between TAS and Jim Davis at https://www.whatsbestforum.com/thre...e-a-digital-step-in-the-process.35221/page-34

 

[rando]

From 3.61K up to 8.13K subscribers in slightly over a month.

All is still doom and gloom, apparently.

Hang in there Mikey!