Michael Fremer at AXPONA 2024

Michael Fremer is the editor of The Tracking Angle and senior editor of The Absolute Sound. Michael never fails to entertain, provoke and raise eyeballs with his avid advocacy for vinyl and his highly opinionated takes on all things audio.
Listen for his takes on old people in the audio industry, young people taking over vinyl, technology improvements in all things audio, distortion, state-of-the-art headphones, how to listen, why he got a headshot, how his father broke a Modern Jazz Quartet record over his head, how he opened for The Jam, Television and Root Boy Slim and the Sex Change Band, and how he appeared on MTV with Peter Gabriel and Neil Young and Dave Mustaine. His advice for people in their 20's: "Whatever you're doing now, make sure it's important."
The Tracking Angle: trackingangle.com/
The Absolute Sound: www.theabsolutesound.com/

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  • @aa5az423
    @aa5az4233 ай бұрын

    Michael is my mentor! Anybody that says he's snobbish doesn't know him. I told him three years ago at a show that I had a Technics SL-B2 (now replaced with a P6) and I hadn't even used it yet out of fear, he asked me several questions and then spent time with me with pointers I'll never forget. The next couple shows I saw him at, he remembered me and spent time with me. I appreciate him.

  • @markwilding3828

    @markwilding3828

    3 ай бұрын

    He carried the torch for vinyl for decades, when everyone else had turned their back on it.

  • @jodygoeler586
    @jodygoeler5862 ай бұрын

    Love Michael Fremer - always bringing the fun and joy to vinyl.

  • @papabear1417
    @papabear14173 ай бұрын

    Too many people are obsessed with the technical. LISTEN to the MUSIC. and how it makes you feel. No scientific instrument can measure that.

  • @scottwheeler2679
    @scottwheeler26792 ай бұрын

    So nice to see Fremer getting it completely right! Very encouraging.

  • @scottwheeler2679

    @scottwheeler2679

    2 ай бұрын

    until he got to the deaf guy who can hear cable differences

  • @trackingangle929

    @trackingangle929

    2 ай бұрын

    @@scottwheeler2679 That man can. Of course if you really don't think cables make a difference, you are the deaf one.

  • @scottwheeler2679

    @scottwheeler2679

    2 ай бұрын

    @@trackingangle929 I still have an offer to you for $20K that you can't hear differences in cables other than shitty cables that act as passive equalizers. And every time I make the offer all I hear from you is the sound of crickets chirping. Dude you don't have super human hearing. You claim you can always hear digital and yet you missed it at least twice with Mofi Abraxas One Step and the AP Roger Waters Amused to Death. You can't erase those reviews Mikey. And apparently you can't hear the gross frequency response problems with your own system. Your hearing and your listening skills are at best questionable much less superior.

  • @scottwheeler2679

    @scottwheeler2679

    2 ай бұрын

    @@trackingangle929 Oh look at that. My response was removed. So I'll post it again. I still have an offer to you personally. A $20K bet that you can't reliably distinguish any cables (other that ones that are so poorly designed that they measurably act as passive equalizers) by ear alone in a well designed test. Every time I remind you of this offer all I hear from you is crickets chirping. You are the guy who has claimed he can always hear digital and yet you failed to hear digital in at least two of your reviews. The Santana Abraxas Mofi One step and the AP Roger Waters Amused to Death. As for what I can hear or you can hear. I know I can easily hear the frequency response errors in your system. Apparently you can not. Let's see if this one gets deleted too.

  • @scottwheeler2679

    @scottwheeler2679

    2 ай бұрын

    @@trackingangle929 coward. Deleting all my responses that call you out on your B.S. So much for honesty.

  • @itsjim2875
    @itsjim28753 ай бұрын

    Love Michael and all that he's done for music, especially vinyl - related issues.

  • @scottbennett3119
    @scottbennett31192 ай бұрын

    This is great! Michael Fremer is a treasure!

  • @mikrophonie5633
    @mikrophonie56332 ай бұрын

    You are a legend in your own mind, and Steve Guttenberg even said so.

  • @trackingangle929

    @trackingangle929

    2 ай бұрын

    as is he in his own mind. I said so.

  • @trackingangle929

    @trackingangle929

    2 ай бұрын

    and you have as much on your mind as you do on your KZread channel, which is nothing. Have a nice day!

  • @Nate-vq6bb
    @Nate-vq6bb3 ай бұрын

    I greatly appreciated his turntable set-up presentation.

  • @TombstoneTube
    @TombstoneTube3 ай бұрын

    The influence that Michael has had is priceless

  • @Orvulum
    @Orvulum2 ай бұрын

    "It doesn't matter whether it's a digital recording..." and "All recordings are fake..." and "There's a thing about a record..." ! Priceless! 😆

  • @jackprick9797
    @jackprick97972 ай бұрын

    Would love to hang with MF for a day. Just so much knowledge.

  • @EddyTeetree
    @EddyTeetree3 ай бұрын

    We need more people like Mr Fremmer not less. Id like to know how many of these snipes say that negative stuff to his face. So much jealousy over what; that someone has more knowledge than they. If you listen to him you learn something which is unique. If I could ask him a question it would be how he handled all the “weird” in Hollywood. I wasn’t able to when I had my shot.

  • @dmitriy2853
    @dmitriy28533 ай бұрын

    Michael Fremer is the brightest and funniest person with a big heart!

  • @acegolemi3818
    @acegolemi38182 ай бұрын

    Freekin LEGEND!!!

  • @Mark-lq3sb
    @Mark-lq3sb2 ай бұрын

    *FREEDOM!* *FREEDOM!* *FREEDOM!* Speaking of Richie..............

  • @OCDHIFiGuy
    @OCDHIFiGuy2 ай бұрын

    Nice outfit CC !! Youre giving Audio Cowboy a run for his money !! Keep on killing it !

  • @screamallyouwant
    @screamallyouwant3 ай бұрын

    I love that Michael knows who Dave Mustaine is 😊

  • @bikdav
    @bikdav3 ай бұрын

    I heard that 💿 CDs are coming back also. Is that true?

  • @tomwatson9062
    @tomwatson90623 ай бұрын

    Kudos to Michael for getting hall-jacked by some random interviewer and generously giving 20 minutes.

  • @lexlarkin
    @lexlarkin3 ай бұрын

    Wonderful. That was fun.

  • @robertmitchell6015
    @robertmitchell60153 ай бұрын

    With the cost of Vinyl going sky high I’m sure it will have an affect on sales, instead of buying 2-3 albums at a time, it’s hard to afford 1

  • @markwilding3828
    @markwilding38283 ай бұрын

    The only thing that could kill vinyl is the crappy pressing plants like GZ and a bunch of others with a greed driven business model, who think they can just keep pumping out junk to a market that will continue to absorb their crap and never go away, but they bite the hand that feeds them and the record buying public are getting smarter and won't continue to tolerate it. If spotify go hi-rez, vinyl will revert to a boutique, niche interest.

  • @DavidGilden
    @DavidGilden3 ай бұрын

    Mike speaks the truth. Thanks 😊

  • @melbguy1
    @melbguy12 ай бұрын

    If Fremer ever runs out of hair gel, there will be major hystrionics!

  • @trackingangle929

    @trackingangle929

    2 ай бұрын

    I actually forgot my hair stuff last year in Munich but I regrouped and didn't panic....

  • @melbguy1

    @melbguy1

    2 ай бұрын

    @@trackingangle929 A seamless transition to cool 😎

  • @67Pepper
    @67Pepper2 ай бұрын

    A tripod might be a good purchase for the next show. Camera man drunk.

  • @trackingangle929

    @trackingangle929

    2 ай бұрын

    He likes to spin

  • @60zeller
    @60zeller2 ай бұрын

    Record sales up 23% yeah, all Taylor Swift.

  • @trackingangle929

    @trackingangle929

    2 ай бұрын

    some. Hardly all

  • @johnstone7697
    @johnstone76972 ай бұрын

    I was there, and mostly what I saw, as far as the attendees were concerned, was white, male, and old... like all the other shows. Some younger guys were working the show for sure, but almost no women. Technology is improving in loudspeakers, class D amps, headphones etc. But the high end always was and still is heavily based on nostalgia, stuck in the past on things like passive loudspeakers, vacuum tubes, and vinyl. All fun, but certainly not advancing the performance quality in any way.

  • @trackingangle929

    @trackingangle929

    2 ай бұрын

    Many African-Americans were at the show & Hispanics. You didn’t look hard enough

  • @trackingangle929

    @trackingangle929

    2 ай бұрын

    High end is based on performance not nostalgia. Class D has reached “high end”. You are quite divisive and creating division where there is none. Tube preamp microphones are “high end”.

  • @ptg01
    @ptg013 ай бұрын

    Michael definitely has a future in comedy... Well done !

  • @charleskatz2606

    @charleskatz2606

    3 ай бұрын

    Unfortunately he had a past in comedy if you look hard enough you can find a copy of his LP

  • @trackingangle929

    @trackingangle929

    2 ай бұрын

    Why is it “unfortunate”?

  • @jackwezesa1081

    @jackwezesa1081

    2 ай бұрын

    @@charleskatz2606 I had his album when it came out !!

  • @charleskatz2606

    @charleskatz2606

    2 ай бұрын

    @@jackwezesa1081 Wow you must be a connoisseur of hurom obseurum..One from that era I liked an liberated from my older brothers was Chris Rush's "First Rush" on Atlantic.That and Firesign Lp's certainly were more hip than our old man's Buddy Hackey platters

  • @lazo69er
    @lazo69er3 ай бұрын

    I thought it was Jerry Springer.lol🤣