Michael Fremer

Michael Fremer is the editor of analogPlanet.com, a senior contributing editor at Stereophile magazine and contributing editor at Sound&Vision magazine.
He’s also contributed to The New York Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, Consumer Digest, and The Bergen Record (New Jersey) among other publications and periodicals.
Fremer appeared on the oft-run ‘History of Audio’ documentary on The History Channel. He’s also been on MTV, The Today Show, CNN, The Howard Stern Show and hundreds of other radio and television shows throughout the United States, talking about the high-end audio listening experience, home theater and the ongoing, unlikely resurgence of LP vinyl records. He appeared in 2013 on Gary “Baba Booey” Dell’Abbate’s VH1 Classic television program “For What It’s Worth.”
His other credits include supervising the Academy Award nominated soundtrack to the 1982 Disney science fiction feature film TRON starring Jeff Bridges and Bruce Boxleitner, and co-writing the animated feature film “Animalympics,” on which he also provided voices along with Gilda Radner, Billy Crystal and Harry Shearer.
He was an on-air personality at WBCN-FM in Boston during the 1970’s and has produced and voiced thousands of radio commercials, which have run across America.
In 2006 he wrote, produced and hosted the DVD “21st Century Vinyl: Michael Fremer’s Practical Guide to Turntable Set-up,” which has received unanimous worldwide media acclaim. Italian and German versions followed. The DVD has to date sold more than 16,000 copies.
A second DVD, It’s a Vinyl World, After All, Michael Fremer’s Guide to Record Cleaning, Storage, Handling, Collecting & Manufacturing in the 21st Century” was released in December, 2008.