Michael Fremer

Michael Alan Fremer (born 1947)^[2] is an American music journalist, YouTuber, and voice actor from New York City, known for writing about audiophile equipment and vinyl.^[3] He is the editor of The Tracking Angle and Senior Editor at The Absolute Sound.^[4][5] Due to his influence within the audiophile community, he has been called the "Pied Piper of vinyl" and the "dean of audiophile writing."^[3][6]

Michael Alan Fremer
Born	1947 (age 77–78) New York City, New York, U.S.
Occupation	journalist
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Cornell University[1]
Period	1970s–present

Career

Fremer graduated from Cornell University with a degree in Industrial and Labor Relations in 1968^[1] and worked as a radio DJ in Boston and New Jersey in the 1970s, when he began to write about music and audio equipment.^[7] In the early 1980s, he became a well known critic of the audio quality of compact discs and was a vocal proponent of analogue source material and vinyl records.^[6]

In 1986, Fremer was hired by The Absolute Sound as pop music editor.^[6] During the 1990s, he ran his own magazine called The Tracking Angle.^[6] For many years, he was the editor of Analog Planet and contributing editor at Stereophile and Sound&Vision.^[7] In 2017, he served as an expert witness in the Quincy Jones vs the Estate of Michael Jackson trial. ^[8]

In 2022 he left Analog Planet and returned to The Absolute Sound and, along with Nick Despotopoulos and David L’Heureux, revived The Tracking Angle as a website.^[4] In 2022, he had a well-publicized spat with YouTuber and record store owner Michael Esposito regarding Mobile Fidelity's use of digital source material.^[3]

In addition to his audiophile journalism, Michael Alan Fremer has done voice acting on films such as Animalympics and Felix the Cat: The Movie and supervised the soundtrack to Disney's Tron.^[9]