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2021 RIAA Year-End Music Industry Revenue Report All Image Credit: RIAA According to the RIAA, in 2021 recorded music revenues in the United States grew 23% to an estimated $15.0 billion retail value. While the 2021 music wholesale value rose 22% to $9.8 billion. With the exception of a decrease […]

2021 RIAA Year-End Music Industry Revenue Report

March 30, 2022 in Audio / News / Plastic / Vinyl tagged 2021 / Music Revenue / RIAA / Year End by fromvinyltoplastic

Dirac Live Auto Target Curve Released On March 24th 2022 Dirac, the Swedish digital audio pioneer, announced a new auto target curve functionality for its Dirac Live solution that makes it easier for inexperienced consumers to get better sound quality from their HiFi and AV systems. This free new software […]

Dirac Live Auto Target Curve Released

March 25, 2022 in Acoustics / Audio / Firmware Updates / News tagged Auto Target Curve / Dirac / Dirac Live / Firmware Upgrade by fromvinyltoplastic

Audyssey ACM1-X Calibrated Microphone This post contains affiliate links. Please see my full disclosure here. Audyssey has just released the new ACM1-X calibrated microphone as a companion accessory to its recently announced MultEQ-X room-correction software. The microphone enables measurements to be corrected to a near-perfect match to those of a “type 1” […]

Audyssey ACM1-X Calibrated Microphone

March 17, 2022 in Audio / Equipment / News tagged ACM1-X / Audyssey / Denon / Marantz / Microphone / MultEQ-X by fromvinyltoplastic

Epson LS11000 4K Laser Projector – Preview Just released, the LS11000 is Epson’s lower cost brother to the $4,999.99 Pro Cinema LS12000 4K projector that was introduced last month. Coming in at $3,999.99 it is almost a clone of the LS12000 in terms of technical features, but has a slightly […]

Epson LS11000 4K Laser Projector – Preview

March 16, 2022 in News / Video tagged 4K / Epson / LASER / LCD / LS11000 / UHD by fromvinyltoplastic

Vinyl Album Sales Surpass CD – USA They say that if you wait around long enough things will come back into style. Well that is certainly true for the lovers of vinyl. The introduction of the plastic CD devastated vinyl album sales starting around 1986, not due to its superior […]

Vinyl Album Sales Surpass CD – USA

March 15, 2022 in News / Vinyl tagged 2021 / CD Sales / Resurgence / Vinyl / Vinyl Comeback / Vinyl Sales by fromvinyltoplastic

Reavon UBR-X110 Universal 4K Blu-ray player – Preview All Images Credit: Reavon French company Reavon have released a new 4K universal disc player, the UBR-X110. This new player is essentially a clone of the original UBR-X100 with the additional capacity to play SACD discs in addition to the original UHD […]

Reavon UBR-X110 Universal 4K Blu-ray player – Preview

March 8, 2022 in Equipment / News tagged 4K Blu-ray Player / Preview / Reavon / UBR-X110 / Universal / Zappiti by fromvinyltoplastic

Arcam AVR11, AVR21, AVR31 and AV41 – Preview All Image Credit: Arcam Arcam of Cambridge, UK, has premiered its AVR11, AVR21 and AVR31 home theater receivers together with the AV41 high-performance AV processor. These new receivers and processor are claimed to be their most comprehensively equipped AV hardware released to-date. […]

Arcam AVR11, AVR21, AVR31 and AV41 – Preview

March 1, 2022 in Audio / Equipment / News tagged 8K / Arcam / AV41 / AVR / AVR11 / AVR21 / AVR31 / HDCP 2.3 / HDMI 2.1 / Home Theater / Processor by fromvinyltoplastic

Masimo Enters Into Agreement To Acquire Sound United I have followed the continued growth of Sound United over the years as it brought together under its wings many well known and very established audiophile companies to include; Denon, Marantz, Definitive Technology, Classe, Polk, HEOS, Boston Acoustics and recently Bowers & […]

Masimo Enters Into Agreement To Acquire Sound United

February 22, 2022 in Equipment / News tagged Masimo / Sound United by fromvinyltoplastic

McIntosh MX180 16-channel, 8K AV Processor Released All Image Credit: McIntosh The latest high end home theater A/V processor offering from McIntosh is the MX180, supporting 9.1.6 surround and 8K on all seven HDMI ports. This beast of a processor offers 16 balanced audio outputs for 15.1 or 9.1.6 surround […]

McIntosh MX180 16-channel, 8K AV Processor Released

February 17, 2022 in Audio / Equipment / News tagged 8K / AV Processor / McIntosh / MX180 by fromvinyltoplastic

RSD 2022 Titles Released For all of us vinyl junkies the 15th annual celebration of Record Store Day 2022 is Saturday April 23rd and it is shaping up to be another great release, party and fun day. Also RSD is already designating June 18th as the RSD Drops date that […]

RSD 2022 Titles Released

February 17, 2022 in News / Vinyl tagged Record Store Day / RSD 2022 by fromvinyltoplastic

Epson LS12000 4K UHD Laser Projector – First Look All Image Credit: Epson Epson has just announced a new 3-chip LCD Laser Projector that combines improved pixel-shifting with a new multi-array laser design. Together with the improved video processing algorithms this new model is said to provide better 4K performance […]

Epson LS12000 4K UHD Laser Projector – First Look

February 16, 2022 in Equipment / News tagged 4K / Epson / LASER / LCD / LS12000 / Projector / UHD by fromvinyltoplastic

Velodyne MicroVee X Subwoofer – First Look All Images Credit: Velodyne As living spaces and apartments seem to be the trending towards smaller, the demand for small, high performance speaker systems, in particular subs, seems to be on the rise. The MicroVee was originally launched in 2006 and saw a […]

Velodyne MicroVee X Subwoofer – First Look

February 10, 2022 in Audio / Equipment / News tagged Micro / MicroVee X / Powered Subwoofers / Subwoofer / Velodyne by fromvinyltoplastic

HDMI 2.1 & 2.1a Compliance Certification – Utter Confusion! I have never hidden my disdain for BOTH HDMI and HDCP but now I have good reason to truly despise the entire set of standards. At CES 2022 yet another version of HDMI was introduced, 2.1a. The point here is that […]

HDMI 2.1 & 2.1a Compliance Certification – Utter Confusion!

January 27, 2022 in Equipment / News tagged 2.1 / 2.1a / HDMI / SBTM / Source Based Tone Mapping by fromvinyltoplastic

Vinyl Passion Revolution LP12 PSU Upgrade All Image Credit: Vinyl Passion Originally developed back in 2019 by Mark Sears of Vinyl Passion, the VP Revolution Power Supply is a high performance, two-speed supply designed to replace internal power supplies fitted to the iconic Linn Sondek LP12, such as the Valhalla […]

Vinyl Passion Revolution LP12 PSU Upgrade

January 24, 2022 in Audio / Equipment / News tagged LP12 / PSU / Russ Andrews / Vinyl Passion / VP Revolution by fromvinyltoplastic

M&K Sound V+ Sealed Sub Series – First Look All Image Credit: M&K Sound M&K have justly announced an update to their V Series of sealed subwoofers. These updated V+ models are said to be ‘décor-friendly’ designs feature manageable cube sizes with new curved and tapered external housings, with the […]

M&K Sound V+ Sealed Sub Series – First Look

January 20, 2022 in Audio / Equipment / News tagged M&K Sound / Powered Subwoofers / Sealed / Subwoofer / V+ Series by fromvinyltoplastic