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Steely Dan's Planet D'Sound Quality
Mike Mettler  |  Apr 25, 2013  | 

With a score of dates set to go now onsale tomorrow today (4/26) for Steely Dan's Mood Swings 2013: 8 Miles to Pancake Day summer/fall tour, I thought it only appropriate to revisit the time I've spent over the years with our favorite audiophile-

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Steely Dan’s Planet D’Sound Quality Page 2
Mike Mettler  |  Apr 25, 2013  | 

With a score of dates set to go now onsale tomorrow today (4/26) for Steely Dan’s Mood Swings 2013: 8 Miles to Pancake Day summer/fall tour, I thought it only appropriate to revisit the time I’ve spent over the years with our favorite audiophile-

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High Fidelity, First Class: Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon Turns 40
Mike Mettler  |  Apr 19, 2013  | 

The Dark Side of the Moon has long been considered to be the audiophile benchmark. It's been remastered and reissued a number of times over the years since it was initially released March 1, 1973 and proceeded to spend a record 741 weeks (that's 14.25 years!) on the album charts.

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High Fidelity, First Class: Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon Turns 40 Page 2
Mike Mettler  |  Apr 19, 2013  | 

The Dark Side of the Moon has long been considered to be the audiophile benchmark. It’s been remastered and reissued a number of times over the years since it was initially released March 1, 1973 and proceeded to spend a record 741 weeks (that’s 14.25 years!) on the album charts.

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Justified Riffing: Olyphant and Goggins Talk High-Def TV Magic
Mike Mettler  |  Mar 29, 2013  | 

Why is Justified so damn good? Simply put, it’s one of the best written, best acted, best sounding, and best looking shows there is, season in and season out. Based on a character sprung from the brilliantly unique mind of Elmore Leonard, Justified stars Timothy Olyphant as U.S.

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Steven Wilson's Raven: The New 5.1 Benchmark
Mike Mettler  |  Feb 25, 2013  | 

How does he do it? How does Steven Wilson continue to create original, envelope-pushing, mind-blowing, mind-expanding music for the surround sound arena?

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2112 in 5.1
Mike Mettler  |  Jan 25, 2013  | 

This one's been 36 years in the making - or you could call it 100 years ahead of schedule, depending on how you look at it. I'm talking about the DTS-HD Master Audio 96-kHz/24-bit 5.1 Blu-ray version of it's-about-time Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee Rush's 1976 epic 2112 (Anthem/Mercury).

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Giveaway: Smashing Pumpkins' Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness Box Set
Mike Mettler  |  Jan 04, 2013  | 

Happy New Year, S+V friends! What better way to break in that new turntable you got over the holidays than with a nice big vinyl box set that we're giving away?

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Holiday Box Sets
Mike Mettler  |  Dec 06, 2012  | 
Peter Gabriel's So Turns 25
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Whole Lotta Zeppelin
Mike Mettler  |  Oct 10, 2012  | 

“We were all vinyl junkies,” said Robert Plant at a packed press conference immediately following the screening of Led Zeppelin’s new live concert film Celebration Day at the Museum of Modern Art in New York on October 9.

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Peter Gabriel, Sonic Sledgehammer
Mike Mettler  |  Sep 24, 2012  | 

When live sound is as good as it was at Peter Gabriel’s show at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia on September 21, I felt like I had to pinch myself to believe it. I mean, was I really hearing what I was hearing?

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Aerosmith Redraw the Line
Mike Mettler  |  Jul 25, 2012  | 

Those wondering whether Aerosmith could still kick ass and take names live saw any lingering doubts dissipate with the band’s vibrant 107-minute show at the Izod Center in East Rutherford, New Jersey on July 24.

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Roger Waters Tears Down The Wall
Mike Mettler  |  Jul 09, 2012  | 

With speakers strategically positioned all the way around The House That Ruth Built — a.k.a. Yankee Stadium — and buttressed by a multimedia visual presentation second to none, Roger Waters and his ace band tore through Pink Floyd’s seminal 1979 masterpiece The Wall in full on July 7 in the Bronx.

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The Avengers Assemble on Blu-ray
Mike Mettler  |  Jun 29, 2012  | 

Yesterday, a rep from Disney came to the S+V offices to show me some of the coolest interactive features that will be on the Blu-ray edition of The Avengers, which comes out on September 25.

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Live Review: Radiohead
Mike Mettler  |  Jun 01, 2012  | 

Radiohead followed their own muse at the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey on Thursday, May 31.

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