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Monthly Archives: June 2022

McIntosh MR89 AM/FM Tuner – First Look All Image Credit: McIntosh Despite the huge growth in digital streaming, free over the air radio stations still play an important role in many peoples lives keeping them connected to music, news and general programming. Clearly McIntosh have acknowledged the continued need for […]

McIntosh MR89 AM/FM Tuner – First Look

June 28, 2022 in Equipment / News tagged AM / FM / McIntosh / MR89 / Radio by fromvinyltoplastic

Semiconductors and Transistors 101 – The BJT In the previous post we saw what a semiconductor, depletion layer and p-n junction are. Let’s now see how they are they used to make transistors? The above image is a replica of the first working point contact single transistor! Huge isn’t it? […]

Semiconductors and Transistors 101 – The BJT

June 24, 2022 in Technical Posts tagged Base / BJT / Collector / Emitter / NPN / PNP by fromvinyltoplastic

McIntosh LB200 Light Box – Really! All Image Credit: McIntosh Yes, it’s just an empty box, well almost. This new product is a matching storage box for all your unsightly, odd ball, bits and pieces and includes an IR interface. So for all those McIntosh aficionados here is the matching […]

McIntosh LB200 Light Box – Really!

June 24, 2022 in Audio / Equipment / News tagged LB200 / McIntosh / Storage by fromvinyltoplastic

Fidelity Record Pressing Launches Q1 2023 Image Credit: musicdirect A new vinyl pressing plant is being constructed from the ground up in Oxnard, California by Fidelity Record Pressing (Fidelity) who aims to make it this country’s “premier vinyl production facility.” In order to meet that claim, the new plant’s co-owners […]

Fidelity Record Pressing Launches Q1 2023

June 23, 2022 in News / Vinyl tagged Mobile Fidelity / MoFi / musicDirect / Vinyl by fromvinyltoplastic

LEGO Jazz Quartet & Fender Stratocaster Kits All Images Credit: LEGO And now for something completely different. It’s summer, so time for a little fun and relaxation! Out of the huge range of LEGO kits I saw a couple of new music related builds that might appeal to all those […]

LEGO Jazz Quartet & Fender Stratocaster Kits

June 22, 2022 in Equipment / News / Plastic tagged Fender / Jazz Quartet / LEGO / plastic / Princeton / Startocaster by fromvinyltoplastic

CyberPower PR750LCDRM1U – UPS Review When I lived in California, noisy, unstable power and loss of power was never an issue for my home theatre. However, after moving to New Jersey loss of power and unstable voltage has been a regular event. So, as I have always used a bulb […]

CyberPower PR750LCDRM1U – UPS Review

June 21, 2022 in Equipment / Reviews tagged CyberPower / Simulated Sine Wave / Sine Wave / Uninterruptible Power Supply / UPS by fromvinyltoplastic

New Linn Arko Tonearm & Kendo MC Cartridge All Image Credit: Linn Linn has just announced two new upgrades for all that have owned a Sondek LP12 turntable since 1973. The first is the Arko, Linn’s first high performance in-house tone-arm design since 2006 and second, the Kendo, an elite […]

New Linn Arko Tonearm & Kendo MC Cartridge

June 20, 2022 in Equipment / News tagged Arko / Kendo / Linn / LP12 / MC Cartridge / Sondek / Tonearm by fromvinyltoplastic

Semiconductors and Transistors 101 As a professor I would occasionally have a student ask, “but how can something be a SEMI conductor, surely it either conducts or insulates”, a not unreasonable question. Well, you are about to find out what a semiconductor is and discover how it is used to […]

Semiconductors and Transistors 101

June 18, 2022 in Technical Posts tagged Depletion Layer / Electrons / Extrinsic / Holes / Intrinsic / N-Type / P-Type / Semiconductors / Valence by fromvinyltoplastic

The Thing – 4K UHD Blu-ray Review This post contains affiliate links. Please see my full disclosure here. Universal Studios | 1982 R | 1hrs 49 min | Action | Adventure | Thriller | Sc-Fi HD | 1080P | DTS-X | DTS-HD Master Audio 7.1 Native 4K […]

The Thing – 4K UHD Blu-ray Review

June 18, 2022 in Plastic - Movies / Reviews tagged 4K / 4K Review / Kurt Russell / plastic / The Thing / UHD by fromvinyltoplastic

McIntosh Group Acquired by Highlander Soon there will be just a handful private mega investment firms owning everything! Well that is sure what it seems like. The McIntosh Group has just been acquired by Highlander Partners, a Dallas-based private investment firm that manages over $2 billion in assets. They released […]

McIntosh Group Acquired by Highlander

June 17, 2022 in Audio / News tagged Highlander Partners / Investment Group / McIntosh / Sonus by fromvinyltoplastic

Auro Technologies Files For Bankruptcy According to the German media magazine Heise Medien the Belgian sound specialist Auro Technologies has just filed for bankruptcy after a recent new investment deal fell through. Auro Technologies is best known for its internationally known Auro-3D immersive sound format that competes with DTS:X and […]

Auro Technologies Files For Bankruptcy

June 16, 2022 in Audio / News tagged Auro 3D / Auro Technologies by fromvinyltoplastic

HDMI Cable Power – HDMI 2.1a Amendment 1 Currently HDMI cables only support the transport of 5VDC@50mA for handling CEC/EDID. Their primary function is to carry digital data and signaling, not DC power. For those that need long HDMI cable runs, especially for 18 and now 48Gbps, this meant one […]

HDMI Cable Power – HDMI 2.1a Amendment 1

June 12, 2022 in Equipment / News tagged Amendment 1 / HDMI / HDMI2.1a / Power Cable by fromvinyltoplastic

Moonfall – 4K UHD Blu-ray Review This post contains affiliate links. Please see my full disclosure here. Lionsgate Films | 2022 PG13 | 2hrs 10 min | Sci-Fi | Thriller | Adventure | Fantasy | Action HD | 1080P | Dolby Atmos | Dolby TrueHD 7.1 Native 4K […]

Moonfall – 4K UHD Blu-ray Review

June 11, 2022 in Plastic - Movies / Reviews tagged 4K / 4K Review / Halle Berry / Moonfall / plastic / UHD by fromvinyltoplastic

Uninterruptible Power Supplies (UPS) – An Introduction Uninterruptible Power Supply or UPS. The questions are what are they, where are they used, do I need one or more and what type? What Are They? The function of a UPS is to mask or remove any changes to your AC supply […]

Uninterruptible Power Supplies (UPS) – An Introduction

June 3, 2022 in Technical Posts tagged Backup / Double Conversion / Line Interactive / Simulated Sine Wave / Sine Wave / Single Conversion / Uninterupted Power Supply / UPS by fromvinyltoplastic