Michael Fremer leaves Analog Planet

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.