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Filmmaker Mode Unveiled By UHD Alliance — Filmmaker Mode Unveiled By UHD Alliance At a recent press event at the Screen Actors Guild, Martin Scorsese, members of the UHD Alliance, several major consumer electronics manufacturers, and leading Hollywood filmmakers including Christopher Nolan, Paul Thomas Anderson, Ryan Coogler, Rian Johnson, and Patty Jenkins officially announced a new partnership […]

Filmmaker Mode Unveiled By UHD Alliance

September 1, 2019 in Equipment / News tagged 4K / Amazon Prime Video / Filmmaker Mode / LG / Panasonic / TV / UHD / UHD Alliance / UHDA / Universal / Vizio / Warner Bros by fromvinyltoplastic

Abbey Road 50th Anniversary Release — This post contains affiliate links. Please see my full disclosure here. Abbey Road 50th Anniversary Release I was just eighteen when this album was first released and lived just north of The Beatles home town, Liverpool. My wife and I were, and still are, Beatles fans. My wife buying almost every […]

Abbey Road 50th Anniversary Release

August 17, 2019 in News / Plastic / Vinyl tagged Abbey Road / Beatles / Dolby Atmos / Hi-Res / Plastic / Remix / Vinyl by fromvinyltoplastic

Discogs Presents Crate Diggers Crate Diggers is the worlds largest international series of music festivals dedicated to promoting vinyl, collectability and physical music. They are at the forefront of the vinyl resurgence, offering consumers parties, live performances, DJs, vinyl vendors, merchandising and live experiences from world class acts and brands […]

Discogs Presents Crate Diggers

July 24, 2019 in Audio / News / Vinyl by fromvinyltoplastic

Spears & Munsil UHD HDR Benchmark Disc Its been a long time coming but last week Spears & Munsil released their hotly anticipated professional 4K HDR video calibration disc. Just as their HD Benchmark discs became the goto HD calibration disc for many users, myself included, I am sure […]

Spears & Munsil UHD HDR Benchmark Disc

July 6, 2019 in News / Plastic / Video tagged 4K / HDR / Spears & Munsil / UHD / UHD Benchmark Disc / UHD Test Disc by fromvinyltoplastic

DS Audio DS-E1 Optical Cartridge — DS Audio DS-E1 Optical Phono Cartridge – Preview I have just been fortunate enough to be present at a demonstration of the new DS Audio DS-E1 optical cartridge at Audio Connection, Verona, NJ. held on Saturday 8th June. This long established audio retailer was presenting its 9th annual Analog Day. […]

DS Audio DS-E1 Optical Phono Cartridge – Preview

June 11, 2019 in Audio / Equipment / Equipment / News / Reviews tagged DS Audio / DS-E1 / Hana ML / Hana SL / Optical Cartridge / Preview by fromvinyltoplastic

Paradigm, Anthem, MartinLogan Purchased by Bagby's — Paradigm, Anthem, MartinLogan Purchased by Bagby’s Scott and John Bagby Secure 100 Percent Interest in Three Iconic Audio Brands With many years of combined audio and innovative experience and a strong commitment to the industry, Scott Bagby and John Bagby announced that effective from May 10th, 2019, […]

Paradigm, Anthem, MartinLogan Purchased by Bagby’s

May 19, 2019 in Audio / News tagged Anthem / John Bagby / MartinLogan / Paradigm / Scott Bagby by fromvinyltoplastic

Sound United To Aquire Pioneer & Onkyo Brands — Sound United To Aquire Pioneer & Onkyo Brands Sound United To Aquire Pioneer & Onkyo Brands – You will be assimilated! Sound United who currently owns Denon, Polk Audio, Marantz, Definitive Technology, HEOS, Classé, and Boston Acoustics have finalized plans to aquire Onkyo, Integra and Pioneer. This preliminary agreement will enable […]

Sound United To Aquire Pioneer & Onkyo Brands

May 19, 2019 in Audio / Equipment / News tagged Monopoly / Onkyo / Pioneer / Sound United LLC by fromvinyltoplastic

Lentek Entre 1 Phono Cartridge History As I am close to replacing my steadfast 40+ year old Entré 1 cartridge I thought that I would just pen a few words about its pedigree before it takes a ‘back seat’. The above image is of my beloved Lentek Entré 1 with […]

Lentek Entre 1 Phono Cartridge History

May 5, 2019 in Audio / News tagged Entre / Head Amplifier / Lentek / Matsudaira / Moving Coil / My Sonic Lab / Phono Cartridge / Soltear Acoustics by fromvinyltoplastic

TD1600 and TD1601 Turntables By Thorens - First Look — TD1600 and TD1601 Turntables By Thorens – First Look This post contains affiliate links. Please see my full disclosure here. Introduction & Some History On 1st May 2018 Thorens returned to Germany when Gunter Kürten, Thorens new CEO, took the company back to the newley formed Thorens GMbH in Bergisch Gladbach […]

TD1600 and TD1601 Turntables By Thorens – First Look

April 27, 2019 in Audio / Equipment / News / Vinyl tagged TD160 / TD160 Super / TD1600 / TD1601 / Thorens / Turntables by fromvinyltoplastic

US Blu-ray Sales Decline In 2020 — Physical Media Sales Seriously Decline It is with a heavy heart that I have to say that convenience and video mediocrity is catching us all up. With a drop in physical media sales of 50% between 2014 and 2018 things do not look too bright for the 4K […]

Physical Media Sales Seriously Decline

April 24, 2019 in News / Plastic tagged 4K / DVD / MPAA / Physical Media / Plastic / Sales Decline / UHD by fromvinyltoplastic

McIntosh MPC500 Power Controller | Clean Power — McIntosh MPC500 Power Controller | Clean Power My 2 Cents It happens to many. A lighting strike or electrical surge damages your most prized piece(s) of HT equipment. The cost of good surge and over and under voltage protection can pay for itself in just one disastrous second. Or at […]

McIntosh MPC500 Power Controller | Clean Power

April 10, 2019 in Equipment / News tagged APC / Clean Power / CyberPower / First Look / McIntosh MPC500 / Power / Tripp Lite / UPS by fromvinyltoplastic

Record Store Day - RSD 2019 — Record Store Day – RSD 2019 On April 13, Record Store Day is back for its 12th year with over 500 releases only available at independent record stores. See the list here. This year’s list is arguably the best one since RSD started in 2012. Record Store Day is an […]

Record Store Day – RSD 2019

April 4, 2019 in News / Vinyl tagged CD / Record Store Day / RSD / Vinyl by fromvinyltoplastic

TechDAS – Air Force Turntables My 2 Cents I cannot imagine paying more money for a turntable than you can pay for a high end home in many regions of the civilized world…….but you can. Well at least somebody can! So why am I posting something that is probably […]

TechDAS – Air Force Turntables

March 31, 2019 in Audio / Equipment / News tagged Air Force / Air Force One / Air Force Zero / TechDAS / Turntables by fromvinyltoplastic

Tidal Releases MQA Android and iOS App — Tidal Releases MQA Android and iOS App Introduction Let me first say that I am not a big fan of MQA. I have tried it at home using Tidal and was not impressed when compared to 24bit 96/128KHz Linear Pulse Code Modulation (LPCM), Free Lossless Audio Compression (FLAC) or […]

Tidal Releases MQA Android and iOS App

March 27, 2019 in Audio / Equipment / News tagged Android / App / Apple / iOS / MAC / MQA / Tidal by fromvinyltoplastic

Panasonic UB9000 News Flash — Panasonic UB9000 & JVC DLA-NX9 Demo On March the 15th JVC announced that they were collaborating with Panasonic to use the HDR metadata contained in 4K UHD discs and available over the HDMI connection in order to optimize the display of HDR material. One of […]

Panasonic UB9000 & JVC DLA-NX9 Demo

March 24, 2019 in Equipment / Equipment / News / Reviews tagged DLA-NX9 / DLA-RS3000 / JVC / Panasonic / UB9000 / Value Electronics by fromvinyltoplastic