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Yearly Archives: 2019

Sound United To Aquire Pioneer & Onkyo Brands — Sound United To Aquire Pioneer & Onkyo Brands Sound United To Aquire Pioneer & Onkyo Brands – You will be assimilated! Sound United who currently owns Denon, Polk Audio, Marantz, Definitive Technology, HEOS, Classé, and Boston Acoustics have finalized plans to aquire Onkyo, Integra and Pioneer. This preliminary agreement will enable […]

Sound United To Aquire Pioneer & Onkyo Brands

May 19, 2019 in Audio / Equipment / News tagged Monopoly / Onkyo / Pioneer / Sound United LLC by fromvinyltoplastic

Alien: 40th Anniversary | Blu-ray 4K Review — Alien: 40th Anniversary | Blu-ray 4K Review 20th Century Fox 1979 R | 1hr 57 mins | Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi HD | 1080P | DTS HD Master Audio 5.1 | Dolby Digital 5.1/4.1/2.0 Native 4K | 2160P | HDR10+ | DTS HD Master Audio […]

Alien: 40th Anniversary | Blu-ray 4K Review

May 11, 2019 in Plastic - Movies / Reviews tagged 40th Anniversary / 4K / 4K Review / Alien / Plastic / review / UHD by fromvinyltoplastic

Lentek Entre 1 Phono Cartridge History As I am close to replacing my steadfast 40+ year old Entré 1 cartridge I thought that I would just pen a few words about its pedigree before it takes a ‘back seat’. The above image is of my beloved Lentek Entré 1 with […]

Lentek Entre 1 Phono Cartridge History

May 5, 2019 in Audio / News tagged Entre / Head Amplifier / Lentek / Matsudaira / Moving Coil / My Sonic Lab / Phono Cartridge / Soltear Acoustics by fromvinyltoplastic

Fantastic Beasts-The Crimes of Grindelwald - Blu-ray 4K Review — Fantastic Beasts-The Crimes of Grindelwald – Blu-ray 4K Review Warner Bros 2018 PG13 | 2hrs 14 mins | 2hrs 22mins | Action | Adventure HD | 1080P | Dolby Atmos | Dolby TrueHD 7.1 Native 4K | 2160P | HDR10 | Dolby Vision | Dolby Atmos | […]

Fantastic Beasts-The Crimes of Grindelwald – Blu-ray 4K Review

May 4, 2019 in Plastic - Movies / Reviews tagged 4K / 4K Review / Fantastic Beasts:The Crimes of Grindelwald / Movie / Plastic by fromvinyltoplastic

TD1600 and TD1601 Turntables By Thorens - First Look — TD1600 and TD1601 Turntables By Thorens – First Look This post contains affiliate links. Please see my full disclosure here. Introduction & Some History On 1st May 2018 Thorens returned to Germany when Gunter Kürten, Thorens new CEO, took the company back to the newley formed Thorens GMbH in Bergisch Gladbach […]

TD1600 and TD1601 Turntables By Thorens – First Look

April 27, 2019 in Audio / Equipment / News / Vinyl tagged TD160 / TD160 Super / TD1600 / TD1601 / Thorens / Turntables by fromvinyltoplastic

Murder On The Orient Express | Blu-ray 4K Review — Murder On The Orient Express – Blu-ray 4K Review 20th Century Fox 2017 PG 13 | 1hr 54mins | Crime | Drama | Mystery HD | 1080P | DTS-HD Master Audio 7.1 Native 4K | 2160P | HDR10 | Dolby Atmos | Dolby TrueHD 7.1 2.39:1 […]

Murder On The Orient Express – Blu-ray 4K Review

April 27, 2019 in Plastic - Movies / Reviews tagged 4K / 4K Review / Murder On The Orient Express / Plastic / review / UHD by fromvinyltoplastic

US Blu-ray Sales Decline In 2020 — Physical Media Sales Seriously Decline It is with a heavy heart that I have to say that convenience and video mediocrity is catching us all up. With a drop in physical media sales of 50% between 2014 and 2018 things do not look too bright for the 4K […]

Physical Media Sales Seriously Decline

April 24, 2019 in News / Plastic tagged 4K / DVD / MPAA / Physical Media / Plastic / Sales Decline / UHD by fromvinyltoplastic

Bumblebee | Blu-ray 4K Review — Bumblebee | Blu-ray 4K Review Paramount Pictures 2018 PG13 |1hrs 54mins | Adventure | Sci-Fi HD | 1080P | Dolby Atmos | Dolby TrueHD 7.1 Unconverted 4K | 2160P | HDR10 | Dolby Vision | Dolby Atmos | Dolby TrueHD7.1 1.78:1 Aspect Ratio Staring: Hailee Steinfeld, […]

Bumblebee | Blu-ray 4K Review

April 21, 2019 in Plastic - Movies / Reviews tagged 4K / 4K Review / Bumblebee / Plastic / UHD by fromvinyltoplastic

Phono Cartridge Basics 101 — Phono Cartridge Basics 101 As I am now in the market for a new cartridge, and maybe a new head amplifier or pre-amplifier, I thought a quick refresher course on cartridge basics would clear my head and help others who maybe in the same boat. Cartridge specifications alone are not […]

Phono Cartridge Basics 101

April 20, 2019 in Audio / Equipment Rebuilds and Upgrades / Technical Posts tagged Cantilever / Head Amplifier / Moving Coil / Moving Iron / Moving Magnet / Phono Cartridge / Pre-Amplifier / Stylus by fromvinyltoplastic

Aquaman| Blu-ray 4K Review — Aquaman | Blu-ray 4K Review Warner Bros 2018 PG13 | 2hrs 23 mins | Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi HD | 1080P | Dolby Atmos | Dolby TrueHD 7.1 | DTS HD Master Audio 5.1 Upscaled 4K | 2160P | HDR10 | Dolby Vision | Dolby Atmos | […]

Aquaman | Blu-ray 4K Review

April 13, 2019 in Plastic - Movies / Reviews tagged 4K / 4K Review / Aquaman / Blu-Ray / Plastic / review / UHD by fromvinyltoplastic

McIntosh MPC500 Power Controller | Clean Power — McIntosh MPC500 Power Controller | Clean Power My 2 Cents It happens to many. A lighting strike or electrical surge damages your most prized piece(s) of HT equipment. The cost of good surge and over and under voltage protection can pay for itself in just one disastrous second. Or at […]

McIntosh MPC500 Power Controller | Clean Power

April 10, 2019 in Equipment / News tagged APC / Clean Power / CyberPower / First Look / McIntosh MPC500 / Power / Tripp Lite / UPS by fromvinyltoplastic

Mortal Engines Blu-ray 4K Review — Mortal Engines Blu-ray 4K Review Universal Studios 2018 PG13 | 2hrs 8 mins | Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi HD | 1080P | Dolby Atmos | Dolby TrueHD 7.1 4K | 2160P | HDR10 | Dolby Atmos | Dolby TrueHD 7.1 2.39:1 Aspect Ratio Staring: Hera Hilmar […]

Mortal Engines Blu-ray 4K Review

April 7, 2019 in Plastic - Movies / Reviews tagged 4K / 4K Review / Blu-Ray / Mortal Engines / movies / Plastic / review / UHD by fromvinyltoplastic

Record Store Day - RSD 2019 — Record Store Day – RSD 2019 On April 13, Record Store Day is back for its 12th year with over 500 releases only available at independent record stores. See the list here. This year’s list is arguably the best one since RSD started in 2012. Record Store Day is an […]

Record Store Day – RSD 2019

April 4, 2019 in News / Vinyl tagged CD / Record Store Day / RSD / Vinyl by fromvinyltoplastic

TechDAS – Air Force Turntables My 2 Cents I cannot imagine paying more money for a turntable than you can pay for a high end home in many regions of the civilized world…….but you can. Well at least somebody can! So why am I posting something that is probably […]

TechDAS – Air Force Turntables

March 31, 2019 in Audio / Equipment / News tagged Air Force / Air Force One / Air Force Zero / TechDAS / Turntables by fromvinyltoplastic

Tidal Releases MQA Android and iOS App — Tidal Releases MQA Android and iOS App Introduction Let me first say that I am not a big fan of MQA. I have tried it at home using Tidal and was not impressed when compared to 24bit 96/128KHz Linear Pulse Code Modulation (LPCM), Free Lossless Audio Compression (FLAC) or […]

Tidal Releases MQA Android and iOS App

March 27, 2019 in Audio / Equipment / News tagged Android / App / Apple / iOS / MAC / MQA / Tidal by fromvinyltoplastic