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Vinyl and CD Review: I've Got The Music In Me - Sheffield Lab 2 — Vinyl and CD Review: I’ve Got The Music In Me – Sheffield Lab 2 – Thelma Houston and Pressure Cooker – Released 1975 Vinyl Surface noise: 4 Dynamic Range: 5 Stereo Imaging: 4+ Image depth/perspective: 4 Overall frequency response: 5 […]

Vinyl and CD Review: I’ve Got The Music In Me – Sheffield Lab 2

September 20, 2017 in Plastic - Music / Reviews / Vinyl tagged Album / CD / D2D / Direct to Disc / LP / Sheffield Lab / Thelma Houston / Vinyl by fromvinyltoplastic

My Home Theater Room Construction Techniques — This second post in my quest for audio nirvana presents my home theater room construction techniques, and the acoustic absorption materials selected for the room. I thought that it may be more interesting to see how the room was built before reviewing my thought process for its design. Introduction The […]

My Home Theater Room Construction Techniques or My Quest For Audio Nirvana

September 15, 2017 in Acoustics / Home Theater Construction / My A/V Room tagged Acoustics / Construction by fromvinyltoplastic

Vinyl Review: Lincoln Mayorga and Distinguished Colleagues - Sheffield Lab 1 — Vinyl Review: Lincoln Mayorga and Distinguished Colleagues – Sheffield Lab 1 – Volume III – Released 1974 Surface noise: 3+ Dynamic Range: 4+ Stereo Imaging: 4 Image depth/perspective: 3+ Overall frequency response: 4 Side One The Perfect Song – My Love America That […]

Vinyl Review: Lincoln Mayorga and Distinguished Colleagues – Sheffield Lab 1

September 10, 2017 in Reviews / Vinyl tagged Album / D2D / Direct to Disc / Lincoln Mayorga / LP / Sheffield Lab / Vinyl by fromvinyltoplastic

My Home Theater Design and Construction — After years of using the family living areas as make do listening and viewing rooms I finally had the opportunity to build my own dedicated home theater, or as I prefer to call it My A/V Room, and so I started my home theatre design and construction project. The room is not […]

My Home Theater Design and Construction

September 10, 2017 in Acoustics / Home Theater Construction / My A/V Room tagged Acoustics / Construction by fromvinyltoplastic

Vinyl Review: The Missing Linc - Sheffield Lab S10 — Vinyl Review: The Missing Linc – Sheffield Lab S10 – Lincoln Mayorga and Distinguished Colleagues Volume II – Released 1972 Surface noise: 4 Dynamic Range: 3+ Stereo Imaging: 4 Image depth/perspective: 3 Overall frequency response: 3+ Side One Chopin: Prelude In C […]

Vinyl Review: The Missing Linc – Sheffield Lab S10

September 6, 2017 in Reviews / Vinyl tagged Album / D2D / Direct to Disc / Lincoln Mayorga / LP / Sheffield Lab / Vinyl by fromvinyltoplastic

Vinyl Review: Lincoln Mayorga & Distinguished Colleagues - Sheffield Lab S9 — Vinyl Review: Lincoln Mayorga and Distinguished Colleagues – Sheffield Lab S9 – Released 1971 Vinyl surface noise: 3 (not pops and clicks) Dynamic Range: 3 Stereo Imaging: 3+ Image depth/perspective: 3- Overall frequency response: 3 Side One Grand […]

Vinyl Review: Lincoln Mayorga and Distinguished Colleagues – Sheffield Lab S9

September 4, 2017 in Reviews / Vinyl tagged Album / D2D / Direct to Disc / Lincoln Mayorga / LP / Sheffield Lab / Vinyl by fromvinyltoplastic

Sheffield Lab Direct To Disc Album Reviews — Sheffield Lab Direct To Disc Album Reviews With respect to Sheffield Lab direct to disc album reviews I would like make a brief comment at the outset about some of the recordings. I am aware that some listeners, including myself, have felt that some recordings, which were done in fairly […]

Sheffield Lab Direct To Disc Album Reviews

September 2, 2017 in Audio / Reviews / Vinyl tagged Album / D2D / Direct to Disc / LP / Nitty Gritty / Sheffield Lab / Vinyl by fromvinyltoplastic

vinyl records and direct to disc — The Recording Process – my 2 Cents I have always had a preference for the sound of well recorded vinyl records and direct to disc recordings, especially when played back on an audiophile stereo system. Their level of realism and involvement is often difficult to improve upon. I cannot say […]

Vinyl Records and Direct To Disc

August 19, 2017 in Audio / Reviews / Vinyl tagged Album / D2D / Direct to Disc / LP / Neuman / Scully / Sheffield Lab / Vinyl by fromvinyltoplastic

Thorens TD160S, Hadcock GH228S and Lentek Head Amp Upgrade and Rebuild — Thorens TD160S, Hadcock GH228S and Lentek Head Amp Upgrade and Rebuild For those wanting to improve their turntable systems this is a brief overview of my Thorens TD160S, Hadcock GH228S and Lentek Head Amp upgrade and rebuild. I have owned my Thorens TD160 Super, Hadcock GH228 Super, Lentek Entre 1 […]

Thorens TD160S, Hadcock GH228S and Lentek Head Amp Upgrade and Rebuild

August 7, 2017 in Audio / Equipment Rebuilds and Upgrades tagged Cartdridge / Entre / Falcon PSU / GH228 / Hadcock / Head Amplifier / Lentek / Nitty Gritty / Phoenix / RoadRunner / Thorens by fromvinyltoplastic

Audio Formats on CD, SACD, DVD, DVDA and Blu-ray — High Definition Sound Formats on Plastic – The Sound of Music Plastic Digital Audio – The Format Wars Video and Audio Formats on Plastic – Part 3 is an introduction to audio formats on CD, SACD, DVD, DVDA and Blu-Ray. Mono audio was the first of all the (analog) audio formats and […]

Introduction to Audio Formats on CD, SACD, DVD, DVDA and Blu-Ray

July 28, 2017 in Audio tagged Blu-Ray / CD / DVD / DVDA / Plastic / SACD by fromvinyltoplastic

The Dreaded HDMI & HDCP HDMI & HDCP Versions The dreaded HDMI and HDCP was originally introduced in 2002 to simplify the connectivity between media devices due to the ever-increasing number of connections. However, as this connection was uncompressed a digitally perfect replica of the source material could be made. So […]

The Dreaded HDMI & HDCP

July 24, 2017 in Audio / Video tagged HDCP / HDMI / UltraHD Premium by fromvinyltoplastic

Introduction To Video And Audio Formats On Plastic — With the ever changing world of video and audio, I though that an introduction to video and audio formats on plastic – CD, SACD, DVD, DVDA and Blu-Ray may be in order to bring readers up to speed. This is not an in depth technical review of all the new […]

Introduction To Video And Audio Formats On Plastic

July 7, 2017 in Audio / Video tagged Blu-Ray / DVD / HD / UHD / Video Formats by fromvinyltoplastic

For those wanting to improve their turntable systems this is a brief overview of my Thorens TD160S, Hadcock GH228S and Lentek Head Amp upgrade and rebuild. — You know vinyl is making an impact and going mainstream when companies like Sony returns to vinyl, who amongst many others, have been out of the vinyl pressing and cutting business for years. Seeing the light, Sony returns to the business of vinyl. So why twenty-eight years ago in […]

Sony Returns To Vinyl

July 4, 2017 in News / Vinyl tagged Album / LP / Vinyl by fromvinyltoplastic

Welcome to From Vinyl to Plastic! My little corner of the web where audio and video are the thing. Have you ever dreamed of building your own home theater, or having a listening space with great sound? Do you wonder about some of that top notch gear you are dreaming about? […]

Welcome!

September 20, 2016 in Start Here tagged Welcome by fromvinyltoplastic