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Monthly Archives: February 2021

Optical Turntables and Laser Cartridges-Are They The Future? — DS Audio Optical Phono Cartridge Schematics Digital Stream (DS) Audio is an audio business group within Digital Stream Corporation (DSC). DSC has been in the laser optics market over 25 years is known as the provider of industrial laser optics systems in the optical disc market, in Medial testing systems, and for various laser optical […]

DS Audio Optical Phono Cartridge Schematics

February 27, 2021 in Audio / Equipment / News tagged DS Audio / DS-E1 / Optical Cartridge by fromvinyltoplastic

The Thelonious Monk Quartet – Monk’s Dream – Vinyl Review Vinyl surface noise: Side A: 5; Side B: 5- Dynamic Range: 5- Stereo Imaging: 4+ Image depth/perspective: 4- Overall frequency response: 4+ Please see here for my comments on reviewing […]

The Thelonious Monk Quartet – Monks Dream – Vinyl Review

February 25, 2021 in Reviews / Vinyl tagged 180gram / Columbia / Impex / Monk's Dream / The Thelonious Monk Quartet / Vinyl / Vinyl Review by fromvinyltoplastic

Spotify Hi-Fi – An Oxymoron? Spotify has officially announced its lossless Hi-Fi streaming tier as a Premium add-on to its compressed Ogg Vorbis service. Considering the competition for HQ audio services I was a little surprised when they announced that this new premium service is to only provide “lossless CD-quality […]

Spotify Hi-Fi – An Oxymoron?

February 25, 2021 in Audio / News tagged Hi-Fi / Spotify / Streaming by fromvinyltoplastic

Plastic vs Vinyl – No Contest A Personal Comment…… Many months ago my regular Wednesday evening and Sunday afternoon vinyl listening sessions stopped, much to the dismay of my wife Michele. I had become annoyed by the effort involved in continually changing sides when spinning 45RPM audiophile discs and I […]

Plastic vs Vinyl – No Contest

February 25, 2021 in Personal Views & Comments tagged Album / CD / plastic / Vinyl by fromvinyltoplastic

Acoustic Sounds Series – Audiophile Jazz Reissues This is just a quick reminder to all you audiophile jazz fans, in fact any jazz fans, that you can still buy many of the vinyl Acoustic Sounds Series released in 2020 with more to follow in 2021. Seeking to offer definitive audiophile grade […]

Acoustic Sounds Series – Audiophile Jazz Reissues

February 20, 2021 in Audio / News / Vinyl tagged 180gram / AAA / Acoustic Sounds / Master Tape / QRP / Quality Record Pressings / Reissues / Ryan K. Smith / Sterling Audio / Vinyl by fromvinyltoplastic

Mike Scott – Collecting Things – 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 here for my […]

Mike Scott – Collecting Things – CD Review

February 18, 2021 in Mouthpiece Music / Plastic - Music / Reviews tagged CD Review / Collecting Things / Mike Scott / Mouthpiece Music / Off The Beaten Track / plastic by fromvinyltoplastic

Blue Note Records – Tone Poet Audiophile Vinyl Reissue Series Blue Note Records is an American jazz record label that is owned by the Universal Music Group. It was established in 1939 by Alfred Lion and Max Margulis deriving its name from the blue notes of jazz and the blues. The label […]

Blue Note Records – Tone Poet Audiophile Vinyl Reissue Series

February 11, 2021 in News / Vinyl tagged Audiophile Recordings / Blue Note Records / Reissue / Tone Poet / Vinyl by fromvinyltoplastic

Samoa Wilson & Jim Kweskin – I Just Want To Be Horizontal – 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- […]

Samoa Wilson & Jim Kweskin – I Just Want To Be Horizontal – CD Review

February 8, 2021 in Kari-On Productions / Plastic - Music / Reviews tagged CD Review / I Just Want To Be Horizontal / Jim Kweskin Band / Kari-On Productions / Off The Beaten Track / plastic / Samoa Wilson by fromvinyltoplastic

Craft Recordings Small Batch – Vinyl Reissues California based record label, Craft Recordings, has launched a vinyl limited-edition series of high-quality pressings. This ‘Small Batch’ series of releases is promised to be “the highest quality vinyl reissues” of some of Crafts huge catalog of legendary recordings. Rather than using the […]

Craft Recordings Small Batch – Vinyl Reissues

February 7, 2021 in News / Vinyl tagged Audiophile Recordings / Craft Recordings / John Coltrane / Lush Life / Vinyl by fromvinyltoplastic