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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

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

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

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

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

Bluesound Streaming Hub For Legacy Devices All Image Credit: Bluesound So for all of you streamers out there who have older equipment that doesn’t support streaming the Bluesound streaming HUB comes to your rescue with few equipment upheavals. Bluesound, the sister company of Canada’s NAD Electronics and PSB Speakers specialize […]

Bluesound Streaming Hub For Legacy Devices

May 12, 2022 in Audio / Equipment / News tagged Bluesound / BluOS / Streaming Hub by fromvinyltoplastic

Fozgometer V2 Azimuth Range Meter – Quick Look For many, whether you are a long time audiophile or just a vinyl enthusiast, correctly aligning a phono cartridge azimuth can often be time consuming and a little hit or miss, especially if you do it by “eyeball” and do not have […]

Fozgometer V2 Azimuth Range Meter – Quick Look

May 9, 2022 in Audio / Equipment / News / Vinyl tagged Azimuth / Cartridge Alignment / Fozgometer by fromvinyltoplastic

“Organik” DAC Upgrade For Linn Klimax Range Recently the Scottish manufacturer Linn has developed their first, in-house, home grown DAC, the Organik. This new D/A converter can be retrofitted to all the variants of Klimax streamers and Klimax integrated speakers. This new Organik D/A converter was originally introduced in ’21 […]

“Organik” DAC Upgrade For Linn Klimax Range

May 5, 2022 in Audio / Equipment / News tagged DAC / Linn / Organik by fromvinyltoplastic

Pro-Ject Announces E1 Series Of Lower Cost Turntables All Image Credit: Pro-Ject The growth of vinyl continues to accelerate and it would appear that the public can’t get enough of it as vinyl sales outstrip CD’s. Even pressing plants are having difficulty keeping up with demand causing vinyl releases to […]

Pro-Ject Announces E1 Series Of Lower Cost Turntables

May 4, 2022 in Audio / Equipment / News / Vinyl tagged E1 / E1 BT / E1 Phono / Pro-Ject / Sumiko by fromvinyltoplastic

8K TV Take-Up Is Looking Bleak My support for and opinions of 8K have been well documented on this web-site. I see absolutely no reason for it, see the links below. Well according to the research company Omdia the worldwide general public seem to be in the same boat as […]

8K TV Take-Up Is Looking Bleak

May 3, 2022 in Equipment / News / Video tagged 8K / TV by fromvinyltoplastic

2″ Diamond Wafer Stores A Billion Blu-Ray’s Image Credit: New Atlas Above image: An ultra-pure diamond wafer measuring 2″ (5cm) in diameter that could be used for very high-density data storage. The small square to the left is the usual size of diamond wafers possible using older manufacturing techniques. […]

2″ Diamond Wafer Stores A Billion Blu-Ray’s

May 2, 2022 in News / Video tagged Adamant Namiki Precision Jewelery Co. / Blu-Ray / Disc Storage / Quantum Storage / Saga University by fromvinyltoplastic