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  Pioneer DJ launches new range of “robust” DJ headphones

  thevinylfactory.com - FACT Team

  The HDJ-X range features a model for every budget. Pioneer DJ is launching a new range of headphones it claims offers “superior durability” for …

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  Mark Metz - Director of Dance First

  

  Crosley Radio’s Vinyl Rocket will Transport You Back to the 1950s

  The Manual - By Brendan Hesse

  The vinyl record has gone from niche collector hobby, to nearly breaking back into the mainstream as the physical media format of choice. Chances are …

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  Mark Metz - Director of Dance First

  

  DS Audio DS 002 Optical Cartridge - The Absolute Sound

  theabsolutesound.com

  A long time before most of you were born, grandpa here used to use a phono cartridge called the Decca London, whose chief virtue was the elimination …

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  Mark Metz - Director of Dance First

  

  How The Great 78 Project is saving half a million songs from obscurity

  thevinylfactory.com - By Will Pritchard

  Documenting the 20th century in music. When Sir Tim Berners-Lee first put digital pen to pad on his world-altering creation – the World Wide Web – he …

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  Mark Metz - Director of Dance First

  

  How the Rolling Stones went disco: Inside the making of "Miss You"

  Salon - Cyrus R.K. Patell

  Written in A minor, the song begins with a catchy guitar riff that will turn out to echo the vocal melody over an insistent “four-on-the floor” bass drum from Charlie Watts. In the third measure, the snare drum kicks in, and the guitar line is echoed by a harmonica two measures later. The sound is …

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  Mark Metz - Director of Dance First

  

  The Wall Street Journal is Totally Full of Sh*t When It Says the Vinyl Boom is Over. Here's Why. - Alan Cross

  ajournalofmusicalthings.com - Alan Cross

  You may have heard rumblings from certain quarters that the vinyl resurrection is over. I have a long-running feud with a friend who is convinced …