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Yearly Archives: 2022

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

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