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Monthly Archives: May 2022

Marantz CD60 & Denon DCD-900NE CD Players – Quick Look Image Credit: Marantz and Denon Forty years ago the CD format introduced the public to digital music physical media. The latest statistics from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) show that sales of CDs increased by 21% to more […]

Marantz CD60 & Denon DCD-900NE CD Players – Quick Look

May 28, 2022 in Audio / Equipment / News tagged CD Player / CD60 / DCD-900NE / Denon / Marantz by fromvinyltoplastic

Analog Amplifiers. Are You Sure? — Valves Or Tubes To You – An Introduction Just like vinyl, valve or tube amplifiers rapidly went out of fashion as solid state semiconductors, CD’s and streaming became the new, lower cost norm. In reality all that happened was that vinyl and tube amplifiers took a back seat for a […]

Valves Or Tubes To You – An Introduction

May 23, 2022 in Audio / General Posts / Technical Posts tagged Beam Tetrode / Diode / Pentode / Tetrode / Triode / Tubes / Valves by fromvinyltoplastic

Onkyo Home Entertainment Files For Bankruptcy Over the last year or so we’ve watched Onkyo’s continuing fight for survival. From the potential Sound United acquisition to Onkyo USA closing down and their AV business being taken over by the Klipsch parent company Vox, to finally the company’s insolvency several months […]

Onkyo Home Entertainment Files For Bankruptcy

May 17, 2022 in Equipment / News tagged Bankrupt / Onkyo / Premium Audio Co. / Sharp / Vox International by fromvinyltoplastic

McIntosh MCD12000 CD/SACD Player & DAC – First Look All Image Credit: McIntosh Clearly McIntosh strongly believe in the longevity of the CD/SACD format as they have just released a truly high-end, flagship, reference player that also doubles as a high-end DAC and is Roon compliant. This new “plastic” player […]

McIntosh MCD12000 CD/SACD Player & DAC – First Look

May 12, 2022 in Audio / Equipment / News tagged CD Player / DAC / MCD12000 / McIntosh by fromvinyltoplastic

Bluesound Streaming Hub For Legacy Devices All Image Credit: Bluesound So for all of you streamers out there who have older equipment that doesn’t support streaming the Bluesound streaming HUB comes to your rescue with few equipment upheavals. Bluesound, the sister company of Canada’s NAD Electronics and PSB Speakers specialize […]

Bluesound Streaming Hub For Legacy Devices

May 12, 2022 in Audio / Equipment / News tagged Bluesound / BluOS / Streaming Hub by fromvinyltoplastic

Fozgometer V2 Azimuth Range Meter – Quick Look For many, whether you are a long time audiophile or just a vinyl enthusiast, correctly aligning a phono cartridge azimuth can often be time consuming and a little hit or miss, especially if you do it by “eyeball” and do not have […]

Fozgometer V2 Azimuth Range Meter – Quick Look

May 9, 2022 in Audio / Equipment / News / Vinyl tagged Azimuth / Cartridge Alignment / Fozgometer by fromvinyltoplastic

“Organik” DAC Upgrade For Linn Klimax Range Recently the Scottish manufacturer Linn has developed their first, in-house, home grown DAC, the Organik. This new D/A converter can be retrofitted to all the variants of Klimax streamers and Klimax integrated speakers. This new Organik D/A converter was originally introduced in ’21 […]

“Organik” DAC Upgrade For Linn Klimax Range

May 5, 2022 in Audio / Equipment / News tagged DAC / Linn / Organik by fromvinyltoplastic

Pro-Ject Announces E1 Series Of Lower Cost Turntables All Image Credit: Pro-Ject The growth of vinyl continues to accelerate and it would appear that the public can’t get enough of it as vinyl sales outstrip CD’s. Even pressing plants are having difficulty keeping up with demand causing vinyl releases to […]

Pro-Ject Announces E1 Series Of Lower Cost Turntables

May 4, 2022 in Audio / Equipment / News / Vinyl tagged E1 / E1 BT / E1 Phono / Pro-Ject / Sumiko by fromvinyltoplastic

8K TV Take-Up Is Looking Bleak My support for and opinions of 8K have been well documented on this web-site. I see absolutely no reason for it, see the links below. Well according to the research company Omdia the worldwide general public seem to be in the same boat as […]

8K TV Take-Up Is Looking Bleak

May 3, 2022 in Equipment / News / Video tagged 8K / TV by fromvinyltoplastic

2″ Diamond Wafer Stores A Billion Blu-Ray’s Image Credit: New Atlas Above image: An ultra-pure diamond wafer measuring 2″ (5cm) in diameter that could be used for very high-density data storage. The small square to the left is the usual size of diamond wafers possible using older manufacturing techniques. […]

2″ Diamond Wafer Stores A Billion Blu-Ray’s

May 2, 2022 in News / Video tagged Adamant Namiki Precision Jewelery Co. / Blu-Ray / Disc Storage / Quantum Storage / Saga University by fromvinyltoplastic

Yamaha Aventage AVR Update – HDMI 2.1 Gaming Features & HDR10+ Image Credit: Yamaha Yamaha has just released a firmware update for its Aventage RX-A4A, RX-A6A, RX-A8A – Firmware Update Ver.1.65 that includes several long awaited HDMI 2.1 gaming and display features plus a few bug fixes. When Yamaha originally […]

Yamaha Aventage AVR Update – HDMI 2.1 Gaming Features & HDR10+

May 1, 2022 in Audio / Equipment / Firmware Updates / News tagged Aventage / Firmware Update / RX-A4A / RX-A6A / RX-A8A / Yamaha by fromvinyltoplastic