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Dire Straits Dire Straits - Review Update — Dire Straits Dire Straits – Review Update Vinyl surface noise: 5 Dynamic Range: 4+/5 Stereo Imaging: 5- Image depth/perspective: 4 Overall frequency response: 5 Update 2/28/2020 This is just a brief update to the albums full review that […]

Dire Straits Dire Straits – Review Update

February 28, 2020 in Reviews / Vinyl tagged 180gram / Album Review / Dire Straits / Mobile Fidelity / MoFi / Vinyl / Vinyl Review by fromvinyltoplastic

Terminator: Dark Fate - Blu-ray 4K Review — Terminator: Dark Fate – Blu-ray 4K Review Paramount Pictures | 2019 R | 2hrs 8 mins | Action | Adventure HD | 1080P | Dolby Atmos | Dolby TrueHD 7.1 Upscaled 4K | 2160P | HDR10 | Dolby Vision | Dolby Atmos | Dolby TrueHD 7.1 […]

Terminator: Dark Fate – Blu-ray 4K Review

February 22, 2020 in Plastic - Movies / Reviews tagged 4K / 4K Review / Dark Fate / Plastic / Terminator / UHD by fromvinyltoplastic

Star Wars Saga In 4K — Star Wars Saga In 4K This post contains affiliate links. Please see my full disclosure here. All ‘Star Wars’ feature films will be available on 4K Blu-ray during March By March 31st all eleven Star Wars movies should be available digitally and in 4K UHD with Dolby Atmos sound. No mention […]

Star Wars Saga In 4K

February 22, 2020 in News / Plastic tagged 4K / Dolby Atmos / Star Wars / The Skywalker Saga / UHD by fromvinyltoplastic

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Vinyl Alliance Is Formed After being almost devastated by the plastic CD and more recently digital downloads, vinyl, after almost 15 years, is now on the road to recovery as it continues year in, year out to make excellent gains in the market place. At some point around 2007, vinyl […]

Vinyl Alliance Is Formed

February 15, 2020 in News / Vinyl tagged Bryan Ekus / Vinyl Alliance by fromvinyltoplastic

Dire Straits Dire Straits - Review Update — Dire Straits Dire Straits – Mo-Fi 45RPM Vinyl Review Vinyl surface noise: 5 Dynamic Range: 4+/5 Stereo Imaging: 5- Image depth/perspective: 4 Overall frequency response: 5- Track List: Side One Down To The Waterline Water Of Love […]

Dire Straits Dire Straits – Mo-Fi 45RPM Vinyl Review

February 15, 2020 in Reviews / Vinyl tagged 180gram / 45RPM / Dire Straits / Mobile Fidelity / MoFi / Vinyl Review by fromvinyltoplastic

Apollo/Transco Lacquer Production Facility Destroyed Housed in a warehouse in Banning, California, Apollo/Transco produced lacquer discs that form the bases to the vinyl disc mastering process. It was one of only two companies in the world supplying the global vinyl industry. The other company is MDC Master Lacquer, it’s based […]

Apollo/Transco Lacquer Production Facility Destroyed

February 11, 2020 in Audio / Equipment / News / Vinyl tagged Apollo / DMM / Lacquer / MDC / Transco / Vinyl by fromvinyltoplastic

Rane ME30B Equalizer Use — Rane ME30B Equalizer Use After many attempts at equalizing my system with Audyssey MultEQ XT32 using numerous different Audyssey mic positions, plus the Audyssey Pro kit and edit functions, I could not sufficiently reduce the equalized over bright/hard upper mid-range to a level that I was comfortable with. That was […]

Rane ME30B Equalizer Use

February 9, 2020 in Audio / Equipment / Reviews tagged Equalizers / ME30B / Rane by fromvinyltoplastic

Venom - Blu-ray 4K Review — Venom – Blu-ray 4K Review Sony Pictures 2018 PG13 | 1hrs 52 mins Action | Sci-Fi | Thriller | Comic Book HD | 1080P | DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 Upscaled 4K | 2160P | Dolby Vision | HDR10 | Dolby Atmos | Dolby TrueHD 7.1 2.39:1 Aspect […]

Venom – Blu-ray 4K Review

February 8, 2020 in Plastic - Movies / Reviews tagged 4K / 4K Review / Plastic / UHD / Venom by fromvinyltoplastic

HDMI 2.1 - A Quick Refresher — HDMI 2.1 – A Quick Refresher Introduction HDMI 2.1 is now being included in new receivers, displays and TV’s . So let’s see what this HDMI development provides us with: We see that the HDMI 2.1 native bit rate caps out at 48Gbps. After that it is all compressed using […]

HDMI 2.1 – A Quick Refresher

February 2, 2020 in Cables & Interconnects / News / Personal Views & Comments tagged 10K / 48Gbps / 8K / ALLM / eARC / HDMI 2.1 / HDR / QFT / QMS / VRR by fromvinyltoplastic

FSR Fiber Optic HDMI Cable Review — FSR Fiber Optic HDMI Cable Review So after a couple of years my CablesToGo 10.2Gbps active fiber optic HDMI cable has become intermittent when pushed to 1080P60. It’s fine at 1080P24. Not too stellar at $233.99 for a 33 footer. I also use a Monoprice SlimRun HDMI active fiber optic […]

FSR Fiber Optic HDMI Cable Review

February 1, 2020 in Cables & Interconnects / Reviews / Video tagged 18Gb/s / 4:4:4 / 4KP60 / CoilGuard / Fiber HDMI / Fiber Optical / FSR / HDCP2.2 / HDMI 2.0 by fromvinyltoplastic

ATSC 3.0 Is Finally Here — ATSC 3.0 Is Finally Here So what’s all the hoopla about? Advanced Television Standards Committee 3.0 (ATSC 3.0) or Next Gen TV is all about getting TV station over the air (OTA) broadcasts to a point where they can better compete with both cable and internet media delivery. It will support 4K UHDTV, […]

ATSC 3.0 Is Finally Here

January 26, 2020 in News / Video tagged ATSC 1.0 / ATSC 3.0 / NextgenTV / OTA / OTT / Over The Air by fromvinyltoplastic

Ania Pro MC Cartridge Rega Launch the Ania Pro MC Cartridge Rega, a highly respected British Hi-Fi manufacture, has added a new cartridge option to boost the performance of its mid-range Planar turntables. The new £750 Ania Pro moving coil model sits between the Ania ($795.00) and the Apheta 2 ($1,895.00) […]

Ania Pro MC Cartridge

January 18, 2020 in Audio / Equipment / News tagged Ania Pro / Audio / Moving Coil Cartridge / Rega by fromvinyltoplastic

Room Equalization Technologies 101 – Part 2 Introduction In the last post introducing this topic we saw that virtually all AV receiver and sound processor manufacturers now include automated equalization or room correction in most of their products even those costing as little a $500.00. The good news is that […]

Room Equalization Technologies 101 – Part 2

January 18, 2020 in Acoustics / Audio tagged Audio / Audyssey / Equilization / MultEQ / MultEQ Pro / REW / Room Equalization / SMS-1 / Velodyne Acoustics / XT / XT32 by fromvinyltoplastic

Analog Amplifiers. Are You Sure? — Analog Amplifiers. Are You Sure? A Pause for Thought You wanted an all analog signal chain for stereo or even multi-channel sound……well think again! When you buy your new ‘analog’ amplifier or home theater receiver, ask yourself, how analog is it? In order to build cost-effective amplifiers and receivers manufacturers […]

Analog Amplifiers. Are You Sure?

January 12, 2020 in Audio / Personal Views & Comments tagged Analog / Audio / Audio Amplifiers / AV Receiver / Digital / Potentiometer / Receiver / Switch / Switched Mode Power Supply / Volume Control by fromvinyltoplastic

VXN 2 & 3 Way Active Crossover - First Look — VXN 2 & 3 Way Active Crossover – First Look Introduction I am a very strong believer and user of active speaker crossovers and have been using them for all my speaker systems since 1976. Why you may ask? They can be easily designed to provide the exact frequency and […]

VXN 2 & 3 Way Active Crossover – First Look

January 12, 2020 in Audio / News tagged Active Crossover / Audio / Exposure / VXN / VXN Active Crossover / VXN Power Supply by fromvinyltoplastic