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Monthly Archives: September 2021

Vinyl Sales Up 94% In 2021 Vinyl continues to manage a remarkable resurgence. After yet another year of lock down in 2020 vinyl seems to be continuing its exceptional winning streak in 2021. The Record Industry Association of America (RIAA) has just posted its mid-year music revenue report, showing that […]

Vinyl Sales Up 94% In 2021

September 17, 2021 in News / Vinyl tagged 2021 / Black Friday / RIAA / RSD 2021 / Vinyl Sales by fromvinyltoplastic

RSD 2021 Full List of Black Friday Vinyl Releases Many more exclusive vinyl album releases coming Friday, November 26th. Black Friday, the first Friday after Thanksgiving, has traditionally been the unofficial start of the holiday shopping season. It’s all about real low cost deals on a vast range of mass-produced […]

RSD 2021 Full List of Black Friday Vinyl Releases

September 17, 2021 in News / Vinyl tagged Black Friday / Record Store Day / RSD 2021 by fromvinyltoplastic

Onkyo, Pioneer, and Integra Get Dirac Live Onkyo, Pioneer, Pioneer Elite and Integra AV receivers upgrade to Dirac Live. Read the announcement from Dirac here. The Swedish software development company Dirac has announced that it will be supplying its patented room correction technologies and software, Dirac Live, to the latest […]

Onkyo, Pioneer, and Integra Get Dirac Live

September 12, 2021 in Audio / Equipment / Firmware Updates / News tagged Dirac / Dirac Live / DRX-3.4 / DRX-5.5 / Firmware Upgrade / Integra / Onkyo / Pioneer / TX-NR7100 / TZ-RZ50 / VSX-LX305 / VSX-LX505 by fromvinyltoplastic

Denon AVS-3 and Marantz VS3003 8K HDMI 2.1 3 Port Switchers All Image Credit: Denon & Marantz Do you own one of the latest 8K AVR’s from Denon or Marantz that only have one HDMI 2.1 compliant 8K input? Tired of swapping HDMI cables for your PS5, Xbox Series X, […]

Denon AVS-3 and Marantz VS3003 8K HDMI 2.1 3 Port Switchers

September 11, 2021 in Equipment / News tagged 8K / AVS-3 / Denon / HDMI Switcher / HDMI2.1 / Marantz / VS3003 by fromvinyltoplastic

Linear Low Noise Analog Power Supplies – DIY This post contains affiliate links. Please see my full disclosure here. Updated test results – 09/28/2021, replaced original 9VAC transformer with 14VAC transformer. As a young teenage electronics enthusiast and licensed UK radio amateur (G8GBL), and all the way up to my early forties, […]

Linear Low Noise Analog Power Supplies – DIY

September 7, 2021 in Equipment Rebuilds and Upgrades tagged Analog Power Supplies / Audiophile / DIY / Linear / Low Noise by fromvinyltoplastic

G.I.Joe: Retaliation – 4K Blu-ray Review This post contains affiliate links. Please see my full disclosure here. Paramount Pictures | 2013 PG13 | 1hrs 50 min | Action | Adventure | Thriller | Sc-Fi HD | 1080P | Dolby TrueHD 7.1 Upscaled 4K | 2160P | Dolby […]

G.I.Joe: Retaliation – 4K Blu-ray Review

September 7, 2021 in Plastic - Movies / Reviews tagged 4K / 4K Review / G.I.Joe / Plastic / Retaliation / review / UHD by fromvinyltoplastic

JVC Releases Three 8K HDMI 2.1 Laser Projectors – First Look I just sat through an very informative on-line presentation of this new range of 8K laser, HDMI 2.1 projectors that was arranged by The Screening Room, Chris Deutsch of JVC and Kris Deering of Deep Dive AV. See the […]

JVC Releases Three 8K HDMI 2.1 Laser Projectors – First Look

September 3, 2021 in Equipment / News tagged 8K / BLU-Escent / DLA-NZ7 / DLA-NZ8 / DLA-NZ9 / DLA-RS2100 / DLA-RS3100 / DLA-RS4100 / HDMI 2.1 / JVC / LASER by fromvinyltoplastic