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Oppo UDP-205 4K UHD Player Review — OPPO Digital Closes Its Doors What a difference a day makes. After 14 years of outstanding products and service, OPPO Digital announced it is to close its doors due to what could be a possible growing migration of viewers to streaming. Or is it that, as a smaller […]

OPPO Digital Closes Its Doors

April 3, 2018 in News tagged OPPO Digital / OPPO Digital Closes / UDP203 / UDP205 by fromvinyltoplastic

Integra DRX-R1.1 and DRC-R1.1 11.2-Channel Atmos AV Receivers — Integra DRX-R1.1 and DRC-R1.1 11.2-Channel Atmos AV Receivers Introduction After building all my preamps and power amplifiers for decades, I was finally seduced by Onkyo Integra way back in the 80’s when I purchased my first stereo pre/power amplifier, an Onkyo Integra A-8190. Integra was founded as a sub-division of […]

Integra DRX-R1.1 and DRC-R1.1 11.2-Channel Atmos AV Receivers

March 31, 2018 in Equipment / News tagged Atmos / AV Receiver / Dolby / Dolby Vision / DRC-R1.1 / DRX-R1.1 / DTS:X / Integra / Onkyo / Pre-Amplifier / THX by fromvinyltoplastic

Is The CD on Life Support? — Is The CD on Life Support? I have been there for the birth of all music distribution formats since the introduction of vinyl. I have watched them rise and fall, and now eventually give way to the distribution of my favorite media music formats to digital down load. The good […]

Is The CD on Life Support?

March 10, 2018 in Audio / News tagged Audio Formats / CD / DVDA / HDCD / HFPA / MQA / Plastic / SACD by fromvinyltoplastic

Panasonic's Flagship DM UB9000 4K UHD Audiophile Player — Panasonics flagship DP UB9000 player offers HDR10, HDR10+ and Dolby Vision Panasonic’s 2018 UHD Blu-ray line-up comprises five models ranging from flagship to affordable. Two of them will support Dolby Vision, three will support HDR10+, and four of them will support Google Assistant and Amazon Alexa, enabling you to control […]

Panasonics Flagship DP UB9000 4K UHD Audiophile Player

February 18, 2018 in Equipment / News tagged 4K / Audiophile / Dolby Vision / DP UB9000 / HDR10+ / Panasonic / UB9000 / UHD by fromvinyltoplastic

Sound United Announces Acquisition of Classé Audio — Sound United Announces Acquisition of Classé Audio Sound United LLC, parent company of Denon, Marantz, Polk Audio, Definitive Technology, Polk BOOM, HEOS, and Boston Acoustics announced, on the eve of the CES 2018 show, its acquisition of Classé Audio, a leading manufacturer of high-performance music and home theater components who […]

Sound United Announces Acquisition of Classé Audio

January 21, 2018 in Audio / News tagged Audio / Charlesbank Capital Partners / Classe / DEI Holdings / Sound United LLC by fromvinyltoplastic

Optical Turntables and Laser Cartridges-Are They The Future? — Optical Turntables and Laser Cartridges-Are They The Future? Let There Be Light The ultimate pickup system for vinyl would be one that doesn’t touch the vinyl, so produces no wear, and the vinyl remains as pristine as the day you bought it, and sounds just as good as the best […]

Optical Turntables and Laser Cartridges-Are They The Future?

January 20, 2018 in Audio / Equipment / News / Technical Posts tagged BSR / CES 2018 / DS Audio / DS-W2 / ELP / Finial / IRENE / NEDCC by fromvinyltoplastic

Marantz AV8805 13.2CH 4K UHD AV Pre-Amplifier-First Look — Marantz AV8805 13.2CH 4K UHD AV Pre-Amplifier – First Look Product Model: AV8805 Manufacturer: Denon MSRP: $4499 Weight: 30 pounds Availability: February 2018 Overview In parallel with the release of the AVR-X8500H from Denon comes the AV8805 from the stables of Marantz, […]

Marantz AV8805 13.2CH 4K UHD AV Pre-Amplifier-First Look

January 17, 2018 in Audio / Equipment / News tagged 13.2 Channel / AV8805 / Marantz / Pre-Amplifier by fromvinyltoplastic

Denon AVR-X8500H World's First 13.2CH AV Receiver — Denon AVR-X8500H–The World’s First 13.2CH AV Receiver Product Model: AVR-X8500H Manufacturer: Denon MSRP: $3999 Weight: 51 pounds Availability: January 2018 Introduction I have been a loyal fanboy of Onkyo, and then Denon products for several decades, but after the Japanese Tsunami they scaled […]

Denon AVR-X8500H-The World’s First 13.2CH AV Receiver

January 12, 2018 in Audio / Equipment / News tagged 13.2 Channel / AV Receiver / AVR-X5800H / CES 2018 / Denon by fromvinyltoplastic

Oppo UDP-203 and UDP-205 Now Support HDR10+ — CES 2018 – HDR10+ Update Warner Bros. has announced that it is joining the HDR 10+ Alliance, together with the existing members: Samsung, Panasonic, 20th Century Fox, and Amazon. It will be interesting to see if Disney, who now owns 20th Century Fox, will also ‘join the party’. This new […]

CES 2018 – HDR10+ Update

January 11, 2018 in News / Video tagged 4K / BDA / CES 2018 / DP-UB820 / FZ800 / FZ950 / HDR-10 / MicroLED / OLED / Panasonic / Q9S / Samsung / SL-HDR2 by fromvinyltoplastic

High Resolution and Master Quality Authenticated Audio - MQA — An Introduction into High Resolution and Master Quality Authenticated Audio – MQA. A Little Historical Perspective It all started in 1982 when Phillips and Sony released the compact disc or CD. This was the introduction of digital audio to the public. Those early discs sounded awful, despite being uncompressed, due […]

High Resolution and Master Quality Authenticated Audio – MQA

December 27, 2017 in Audio / News / Technical Posts tagged Hi-Res Audio / Master Quality Authenticated / MQA / Tidal by fromvinyltoplastic

A Major Player in The Recording Industry Emerges: Miloco Studios — A Major Player in The Recording Industry Emerges: Miloco Studios Growing at the speed of sound and gobbling up studios at the speed of light, a major player in the recording industry has emerged – Miloco Studios, and it is has expanded to what is the largest independent owner and manager of […]

A Major Player in The Recording Industry Emerges: Miloco Studios

October 16, 2017 in News / The Recording Industry tagged Livingston Studios / Miloco Studios / recording studios / Studio of the Year Award 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