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Darbee 4K - PXLVision Coming Soon — Darbee 4K – PXLVision Coming Soon Introduction I was so skeptical when several years ago one of my readers sent me a message saying that; “his new Darbee Darblet provided a significant visual improvement to his HD image with little or no artifacts”. This I had to see to believe, […]

Darbee 4K – PXLVision Coming Soon

August 16, 2020 in Equipment / News tagged 4K / Darbee / Darblet / DVP5000S / DVPTM / Pixelgen Design / PXLVision by fromvinyltoplastic

Physical Media Takes Another Hit! — Physical Media Takes Another Hit! The Rumor Mill It is strongly rumored by Bill Hunt, the Editor in Chief of The Digital Bits that Disney is going to be restricting the release of their existing live action catalog and that of the recently purchased 20th Century Fox Film company, to 4K only […]

Physical Media Takes Another Hit!

August 12, 2020 in News / Plastic tagged 4K / Death of Physical Media / Disney+ / Physical Media / Streaming / Ultra HD / Walt Disney / Warner Media by fromvinyltoplastic

HANA Umami Red - MC Phono Cartridge — HANA Umami Red – MC Phono Cartridge All images credit: Excel Sound Corporation. HANA phono cartridges are manufactured by Japan’s Excel Sound Corporation. Since their introduction they have continued to attract a growing customer base, and deservedly so. (華) Hana, in Japanese means “Brilliant and Gorgeous”, a cartridge born from superb […]

HANA Umami Red – MC Phono Cartridge

August 4, 2020 in Audio / News tagged Hana / MC / Moving Coil Cartridge / Umami Red by fromvinyltoplastic

US Blu-ray Sales Decline In 2020 — US Blu-ray Sales Decline In 2020 Over the past years physical media sales have continued to decline as reported by me here and confirmed by The Digital Entertainment Group’s quarterly Home Entertainment Reports and Media Play news in-house home entertainment market research. For the last decade physical media sales, read […]

US Blu-ray Sales Decline In 2020

August 1, 2020 in News / Plastic tagged Blu-Ray / Disc Rentals / Netflix / News / Plastic / Sales Decline by fromvinyltoplastic

DS Audio Release Grand Master Optical Cartridge — DS Audio Grand Master Optical Cartridge (All Images Credit: DS Audio) Introduction When I decided to replace my Lentek Entre 1 I seriously considered DS Audio’s DS-E1 model, and auditioned it and the Hana SL and ML. The Hana SL, for me, was the better option but I still thought that the […]

DS Audio Grand Master Optical Cartridge

August 1, 2020 in Audio / Equipment / News tagged DS Audio / Grand Master / Optical Cartridge by fromvinyltoplastic

US Vinyl Album Sales Grow In 2020 — US Vinyl Album Sales Grow In 2020 Despite the Corona virus, and maybe because of it, the mid-year figures show an almost 10% increase in vinyl sales during the first half of 2020 as people hunker down and shelter in place. According to the new Nielsen Music/MRC Data midyear report, […]

US Vinyl Album Sales Grow In 2020

July 25, 2020 in News / Vinyl tagged 2020 / Vinyl Sales by fromvinyltoplastic

Marantz 8K SR-Series AV receivers - First Look — Marantz 8K SR-Series AV Receivers – First Look (Images Credit: Marantz) Hot on the heels of the Denon 8K receiver release we knew that Marantz would not be too far behind, especially as both compnaies share the same technical stable and are owned by […]

Marantz 8K SR-Series AV Receivers – First Look

July 25, 2020 in Audio / Equipment / News tagged First Look / Marantz / SR Series / SR5015 / SR6015 / SR7015 / SR8015 by fromvinyltoplastic

H.266 Versatile Video Codec — H.266 Versatile Video Codec The electrical engineering and computer science division of the esteemed German research organization, The Fraunhofer – Heinrich Hertz Institute (HHI), has just announced VVC, a new video CODEC standard that promises to provide an additional 50 percent compression efficiency in streaming video compression. The codec’s, full name is […]

H.266 Versatile Video Codec

July 17, 2020 in News / Video tagged AV1 / AVC / H.265 / H.266 / HEVC / VVC 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

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

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

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

VPI Produces Coronavirus Protection Products VPI Industries, a New Jersey based high-end turntable manufacturung firm will manufacture and distribute hand sanitizer, face shields and intubation hoods all free of charge in the US. This family-run company has temporarily downed tools and repurposed its factory to produce a range of personnel […]

VPI Produces Coronavirus Protection Products

April 9, 2020 in Audio / Equipment / News tagged Coronavirus / Covid 19 / Donate / VPI by fromvinyltoplastic