Michael Fremer leaves Analog Planet

Whether you can trust him or not he's certainly an interesting fellow.

I enjoyed his vinyl rips posted online at analogue planet radio and his interview with Siegfried Linkwitz was pretty special too.

https://www.analogplanet.com/category/analogplanet-radio

Michael is one of the very few reviewers who actually gives true insight into the sound of a product. He is not afraid to point out strengths and weaknesses. With Michael--not every piece of gear is the best ever. I will follow him at Absolute Sound but I do wish they conducted measurements.

Mikey is great but I am just going to stick with Stereophile.  I just cannot follow someone who espouses 'high end' cables.

How stupid.

I met Michael Fremer once a Music Matters open house and he was spinning disks in a room with a system that featured some extraordinarily large Wilson speakers. It sounded very good. Fremer had a prerelease and apparently ultra special pressing of Fleetwood Mac Rumors that he was very proud of and which sounded phenomenal on the SME/Lyra table cartridge combo. I came up to him after the demonstration and told him I had seen the band on the Rumors tour, that the concert far exceeded my expectations, and that this system and that special pressing got very close. He looked at me with a wry smile and said “Are you sure? I saw them in 1977 and I don’t remember any of it”. I have liked him ever since.