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Yearly Archives: 2020

John Daversa - Cuarantena: With Family At Home - CD Review — John Daversa – Cuarantena: With Family At Home – CD Review This post contains affiliate links. Please see my full disclosure here. Plastic – CD Surface noise: N/A Dynamic Range: 5- Stereo Imaging: 4+ Image depth/perspective: 4+ Overall frequency response: 5- Please see […]

John Daversa – Cuarantena: With Family At Home – CD Review

September 27, 2020 in Mouthpiece Music / Plastic - Music / Reviews tagged CD / CD Review / Cuarantena: With Family At Home / Jazz / John Daversa / Off The Beaten Track / plastic by fromvinyltoplastic

Denons 110th Anniversary Range — Denons 110th Anniversary Range Images Credit: Denon Denon is marking its 110th birthday with a quartet of special edition products that combined make up a complete audiophile home component system. Each of these new products are manufactured at the Denon factory in Shirakawa, Japan and undergo an extended quality assurance […]

Denons 110th Anniversary Range

September 24, 2020 in Audio / Equipment / News tagged 110th Anniversary / AVR-A110 / DCD-A110 / Denon / DL-A110 / PMA-A110 by fromvinyltoplastic

JVC Updates 4K HDR Projector Performance — JVC Updates 4K HDR Projector Performance JVC will be rolling out a free firmware update to its native 4K and e-shift 8K projectors that is said to provide a major improvement to their HDR performance and ease of use. JVC’s Theater Optimizer technology, was originally released as a firmware upgrade […]

JVC Updates 4K HDR Projector Performance

September 20, 2020 in Equipment / Firmware Updates / News tagged DILA / DLA / DLA-NX5 / DLA-NX7 / DLA-NX9 / DLA-RS1000 / DLA-RS2000 / DLA-RS3000 / Firmware Update / HDR / JVC / upgrade / Version 3.5 by fromvinyltoplastic

Flash Gordon - 4K Blu-ray Review — Flash Gordon – 4K Blu-ray Review This post contains affiliate links. Please see my full disclosure here. Arrow 1980 PG | 1hrs 52 min | Sci-Fi | Fantasy | Action | Adventure HD | 1080P | DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 Native 4K | 2160P | HDR10 | […]

Flash Gordon – 4K Blu-ray Review

September 20, 2020 in Plastic - Movies / Reviews tagged 4K / 4K Review / Flash Gordon / plastic / review / UHD by fromvinyltoplastic

iFi iPhono 3 – First Look After your turntable system you need to focus on the cartridges phono amplifier. Why? It’s the front end to the information amplification system. If the arm, cartridge and phono amplifier don’t provide a pristine electronic replica of what was on that vinyl then nothing […]

iFi iPhono 3 – First Look

September 16, 2020 in Audio / Equipment / News tagged Black Label / iFi / iPhono 3 / iPower X / Phono Pre-Amplifier by fromvinyltoplastic

Pacific Rim Uprising - 4K Blu-ray Review — Pacific Rim Uprising – 4K Blu-ray Review This post contains affiliate links. Please see my full disclosure here. Universal Studios 2018 PG13 | 1hrs 51 min | Sci-Fi | Fantasy | Action | Adventure HD | 1080P | Dolby Atmos | Dolby TrueHD 7.1 Upscaled 4K | […]

Pacific Rim Uprising – 4K Blu-ray Review

September 16, 2020 in Plastic - Movies / Reviews tagged 4K / 4K Review / Pacific Rim Uprising / plastic / UHD by fromvinyltoplastic

San Gabriel 7 & Femi Knight - Red Dress - CD Review — San Gabriel 7 & Femi Knight – Red Dress – CD Review This post contains affiliate links. Please see my full disclosure here. Plastic – CD Surface noise: N/A Dynamic Range: 5- Stereo Imaging: 5- Image depth/perspective:4+ Overall frequency response: 5- […]

San Gabriel 7 & Femi Knight – Red Dress – CD Review

September 9, 2020 in Mouthpiece Music / Plastic - Music / Reviews tagged CD / Femi Knight / Jazz / Mouthpiece Music / Off The Beaten Track / plastic / Progressive Funk Jazz / Red Dress / review / San Gabriel 7 by fromvinyltoplastic

EMM Labs DS-EQ1 Phono Pre-amp — EMM Labs DS-EQ1 Phono Pre-amp EMM Labs of Canada has released their new optical cartridge equalizer, the DS-EQ1 which is fully compatible with DS Audio optical cartridge range. Having auditioned the DS ES-1 optical cartridge, I am definitely an admirer of this cartridge technology. So it was with great interest […]

EMM Labs DS-EQ1 Phono Pre-amp

September 8, 2020 in Audio / Equipment / News tagged DS Audio / DS-EQ1 / Ed Meitner / EMM Labs by fromvinyltoplastic

Clifton Davis - Never Can Say Goodbye - CD Review — Clifton Davis – Never Can Say Goodbye – CD Review This post contains affiliate links. Please see my full disclosure here. Plastic – CD Surface noise: N/A Dynamic Range: 4+ Stereo Imaging: 4 Image depth/perspective: 4 Overall frequency response: 4 Please […]

Clifton Davis – Never Can Say Goodbye – CD Review

September 7, 2020 in Mouthpiece Music / Plastic - Music / Reviews tagged CD / Clifton Davis / Jazz / Mouthpiece Music / Never Can Say Goodbye / Off The Beaten Track / plastic / review / The Beggie Adair Trio by fromvinyltoplastic

Monoprice Tube Amplifiers - First Look — Monoprice Tube Amplifiers – First Look Introduction The tube amplifier has seen a resurgence in recent years due to the warm, pleasing sound that only a tube amplifier can offer. The Monoprice Pure Tube Amplifier, shown above, utilizes four EL84 tubes for the power output stage and three 6N3 tubes […]

Monoprice Tube Amplifiers – First Look

August 29, 2020 in Audio / Equipment / News tagged Class AB / Hybrid Tube Amplifier / Low Cost / Monoprice / Pure Tube Stereo Amplifier / Tube power Amplifier / Valve by fromvinyltoplastic

Mouthpiece Music - Jazz Reviews — Mouthpiece Music – Jazz Reviews ANNOUNCEMENT: From Vinyl To Plastic is pleased to announce that it has been selected by Mouthpiece Music of LA to be a reviewer for its Jazz music promotions. Mouthpiece Music provides a full suite of services to help new, upcoming and established jazz musicians, groups […]

Mouthpiece Music – Jazz Reviews

August 25, 2020 in Mouthpiece Music tagged Album Review / CD / Jazz / Mouthpiece Music / plastic by fromvinyltoplastic

Lentek Head Amplifier Adjustable Loading — Lentek Head Amplifier Adjustable Loading The original three loading positions that I added to this head amplifier worked just fine, but I wanted to see if I could make it even more versatile and flexible. I initially tried using a linear 1000 ohm dual gang 20% & 10% tolerance plastic film […]

Lentek Head Amplifier Adjustable Loading

August 23, 2020 in Equipment Rebuilds and Upgrades tagged Head Amplifier / Lentek / upgrade / Variable Loading by fromvinyltoplastic

Darbee 4K - PXLVision Coming Soon — Darbee 4K – PXLVision Coming Soon Introduction I was so skeptical when several years ago one of my readers sent me a message saying that; “his new Darbee Darblet provided a significant visual improvement to his HD image with little or no artifacts”. This I had to see to believe, […]

Darbee 4K – PXLVision Coming Soon

August 16, 2020 in Equipment / News tagged 4K / Darbee / Darblet / DVP5000S / DVPTM / Pixelgen Design / PXLVision by fromvinyltoplastic

Physical Media Takes Another Hit! — Physical Media Takes Another Hit! The Rumor Mill It is strongly rumored by Bill Hunt, the Editor in Chief of The Digital Bits that Disney is going to be restricting the release of their existing live action catalog and that of the recently purchased 20th Century Fox Film company, to 4K only […]

Physical Media Takes Another Hit!

August 12, 2020 in News / Plastic tagged 4K / Death of Physical Media / Disney+ / Physical Media / Streaming / Ultra HD / Walt Disney / Warner Media by fromvinyltoplastic

HANA Umami Red - MC Phono Cartridge — HANA Umami Red – MC Phono Cartridge All images credit: Excel Sound Corporation. HANA phono cartridges are manufactured by Japan’s Excel Sound Corporation. Since their introduction they have continued to attract a growing customer base, and deservedly so. (華) Hana, in Japanese means “Brilliant and Gorgeous”, a cartridge born from superb […]

HANA Umami Red – MC Phono Cartridge

August 4, 2020 in Audio / News tagged Hana / MC / Moving Coil Cartridge / Umami Red by fromvinyltoplastic