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Beatles - Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - Yesteryear Vinyl — Beatles – Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band – Yesteryear Vinyl Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band is the eighth studio album by the English rock band the Beatles. It was produced by George Martin and released on 26th May 1967 in the United Kingdom and 2nd June 1967 in […]

Beatles – Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band – Yesteryear Vinyl

July 4, 2020 in Reviews / Vinyl of Yesteryear tagged Beatles / Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band / Vinyl / Vinyl Review / Yesteryear by fromvinyltoplastic

Sound United Closes Deal On Acquisition Of Bowers & Wilkins — Sound United Acquires Bowers & Wilkins Sound United, the parent company of Denon, Marantz, Polk Audio and many more audio-video brands has announced its intention to acquire audiophile speaker manufacturer Bowers & Wilkins. Kevin Duffy, CEO at Sound United, said in a statement: “Over the course of five decades Bowers […]

Sound United Acquires Bowers & Wilkins

June 23, 2020 in Audio / News tagged Bowers & Wilkins / Sound United LLC by fromvinyltoplastic

Denon X6700H & X4700H 8K Receivers If you are a regular visitor to my site you will already know my views regarding 8K video. But here we go again, ‘if they build it, many will buy it’. Denon’s world first 8K-ready AVRs are feature-packed and future-proofed. They build on the […]

Denon X6700H & X4700H 8K Receivers

June 11, 2020 in Equipment / News tagged 8K / AVR X2700H / AVR X3700H / AVR X4700H / AVR X6700H / Denon / HDCP2.3 by fromvinyltoplastic

Pink Floyd – Animals – Yesteryear Vinyl Animals is the tenth studio album by English rock band Pink Floyd. It was released in January 1977 through Harvest and Columbia Records and recorded at the band’s Britannia Row Studios in London throughout 1976. The album continues the longform compositions that made […]

Pink Floyd – Animals – Yesteryear Vinyl

June 7, 2020 in Reviews / Vinyl of Yesteryear tagged Animals / Pink Floyd / Vinyl / Vinyl Review / Yesteryear by fromvinyltoplastic

Leak Is Back. What's Next Radford? — Leak Is Back. What’s Next Radford? Introduction The UK was the birth place of many of the original audiophile companies like Leak, Quad, Wharfdale, Radford, Celestion, Decca, EMI, English Electric etc. to name but a few. Many of these very […]

Leak Is Back. What’s Next Radford?

June 6, 2020 in Audio / Equipment / News tagged AIG / CDT / Leak / Stereo 130 by fromvinyltoplastic

Stockfisch DMM-Dubplate Vol. 1 — Stockfisch DMM-Dubplate Vol. 1 So in the never ending attempt for the vinyl audiophile to get even closer to the analog source, Stockfisch Records have got just about as close as you can. Stockfisch Records & Pauler Acoustics are a niche high end mastering and cutting company, based in Germany, […]

Stockfisch DMM-Dubplate Vol. 1

June 3, 2020 in Audio / News / Vinyl tagged DMM-Dubplate / Pauler Acoustics / Stockfisch by fromvinyltoplastic

lentek head amp — MX-VYNL & Lentek Head Amp Introduction. So after being very happy with my MX-VYNL and Hana pairing for a while now, I decided to modify my rebuilt Lentek head amp to correctly load the Hana and see how it would sound when paired to the MX-VYNL running in unbalanced moving […]

MX-VYNL & Lentek Head Amp

May 31, 2020 in Audio / Equipment / Equipment Rebuilds and Upgrades / Reviews tagged Head Amplifier / Lentek / MX-VYNL / Phono Pre-Amplifier by fromvinyltoplastic

Queen - News Of The World - Yesteryear Vinyl — Queen – News Of The World – Yesteryear Vinyl News of the World – takes its album title from the British Newspaper of the same name – and is the sixth studio album by the British rock band Queen. The album was released in October 1977 by EMI Records in […]

Queen – News Of The World – Yesteryear Vinyl

May 24, 2020 in Reviews / Vinyl of Yesteryear tagged News Of The World / Queen / Vinyl / Vinyl Review / Yesteryear by fromvinyltoplastic

Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd - Yesteryear Vinyl — Wish You Were Here – Pink Floyd – Yesteryear Vinyl Wish You Were Here is the ninth studio album by the English rock band Pink Floyd, released on 12 September 1975 through Harvest Records and Columbia Records. Based on material Pink Floyd composed while performing in Europe, Wish You Were […]

Wish You Were Here – Pink Floyd – Yesteryear Vinyl

May 17, 2020 in Reviews / Vinyl of Yesteryear tagged Pink Floyd / Vinyl / Vinyl Review / Wish You Were Here / Yesteryear by fromvinyltoplastic

Jelco Tonearm Manufacturer Closes So far this is just a strong rumor, but the Jelco web site and various industry professionals are indicating that there are problems ahead. Has the Ichikawa Jewel Company – the Japanese manufacturer behind Jelco, which has been manufacturing phono cartridges, tonearms and turntable accessories for almost a […]

Jelco Tonearm Manufacturer Closes

May 16, 2020 in Equipment / News tagged Ichikawa Jewel Company / Jelco / Tonearms by fromvinyltoplastic

Carole King – Tapestry – Yesteryear Vinyl Tapestry is the second studio album by American singer-songwriter Carole King. It was released in 1971 on Ode Records and produced by Lou Adler. It is one of the best-selling albums of all time, with over 25 million copies sold worldwide to date. The […]

Carole King – Tapestry – Yesteryear Vinyl

May 14, 2020 in Reviews / Vinyl of Yesteryear tagged Carole King / Tapestry / Vinyl / Vinyl Review / Yesteryear by fromvinyltoplastic

Network Cables & Switches - Myths & BS — Network Cables & Switches – Myths & BS Introduction I have worked at the pointed or origination end of audio and video all my professional life (40+ years) from professional recording studios to professional radio and TV broadcast and production. So I couldn’t let the following comments evaporate into the […]

Network Cables & Switches – Myths & BS

May 10, 2020 in Audio / Personal Views & Comments / Technical Posts / Video tagged Audio / COTS / Data / Denon Link / Digital / Jitter / Pioneer PQLS / Video by fromvinyltoplastic

TOTO - Yesteryear Vinyl — TOTO – Yesteryear Vinyl TOTO was an American rock band from Van Nuys, LA, the town in which I first lived when I moved to America in 1993. Just in time for the 1994 Northridge earthquake that virtually totaled my newly purchased home. Luckily I had taken out earthquake insurance……but that […]

TOTO – Yesteryear Vinyl

May 8, 2020 in Reviews / Vinyl of Yesteryear tagged TOTO / Vinyl / Vinyl Review / Yesteryear by fromvinyltoplastic

Roxy Music -Avalon - Yesteryear Vinyl — Roxy Music – Avalon – Yesteryear Vinyl Avalon is the eighth and final studio album by English rock band Roxy Music. Released in May 1982, by E.G. Records, it was recorded between 1981–1982 at Compass Point Studios in Nassau, Bahamas, the Power Station, NYC and was mastered by Robert Ludwig […]

Roxy Music – Avalon – Yesteryear Vinyl

May 4, 2020 in Reviews / Vinyl of Yesteryear tagged Avalon / Roxy Music / Vinyl / Vinyl Review / Yesteryear by fromvinyltoplastic

RSD 2020 Update — RSD 2020 Update I suppose it was only to be expected. Record Store Day 2020 that had been re-schedulled for June 2020, due to the Corona Virus, has now been cancelled and replaced with three “RSD DROPS” of limited edition vinyl records. The records on the official Record Store Day release […]

RSD 2020 Update

May 2, 2020 in News / Vinyl tagged Record Store Day / RSD 2020 by fromvinyltoplastic