Best Audio Restoration, July 2008

You can’t bear to throw out your vinyl records, even though your turntable and stylus were trashed long ago. Matt Forger Productions, run by a sound engineer who archived old demos for Michael Jackson, can put your Led Zep and English Beat LPs into digital format. Forger has state-of-the-art electronics and a phalanx of vintage playback machines that will convert everything from 1940s acetates to Nixon-era quarter-track tapes into clean-sounding mp3s free of hisses and pops.