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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

“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

JBL 4305P – Compact Active Bookshelf Studio Monitor All Image Credit: Haman HARMAN Luxury Audio has recently introduced the JBL 4305P Studio Monitor Powered Bookshelf Loudspeaker System that features both high-resolution streaming and prosumer connectivity. This is their first powered compact model in a new range of consumer Studio Monitors. […]

JBL 4305P – Compact Active Bookshelf Studio Monitor

April 4, 2022 in Audio / Equipment / News tagged 4305P / Active Speakers / Bookshelf / JBL / Speakers / Studio Monitor by fromvinyltoplastic

Lenco 400 Series Turntables Released – First Look All Image Credit: Lenco New to vinyl and wonder why audiophiles say that those 12″ black shinny frisbees contain the best sounding music? Competing with manufacturers like Crossley, Andover Audio, […]

Lenco 400 Series Turntables Released – First Look

April 2, 2022 in Audio / Equipment / News tagged All-In-One / Lenco / LS-410 / LS-430 / LS-440 / Plu-and-Play / Turntable by fromvinyltoplastic

My Genelec Music and Movie Speaker System Recently I have had a number of readers enquire about the speaker systems and acoustic performance of my music and HT room. As I result I have put together this brief overview. I do hope that it answers most of your questions, if […]

My Genelec Music and Movie Speaker System

March 29, 2022 in Home Theater Construction / My A/V Room / Sub EQ tagged Acoustics / Genelec / SMS-1 / SVS / X10 / XT32 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

Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City – 4K Blu-ray Review This post contains affiliate links. Please see my full disclosure here. Sony Pictures | 2021 R | 1hrs 47 min | Sci-Fi | Action | Horror HD | 1080P | DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 Native 4K | […]

Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City – 4K Blu-ray Review

March 5, 2022 in Plastic - Movies / Reviews tagged 4K / 4K Review / Kaya Scodelario / plastic / Resident Evil / UHD / Welcome To Raccoon City 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

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

Dune (2021) – 4K Blu-ray Review This post contains affiliate links. Please see my full disclosure here. Warner Bros | 2021 PG13 | 2hrs 35 min | Sci-Fi | Epic | Action | Fantasy | Adventure | Drama HD | 1080P | Dolby Atmos | Dolby TrueHD7.1 Native […]

Dune (2021) – 4K Blu-ray Review

January 24, 2022 in Plastic - Movies / Reviews tagged 4K / 4K Review / Dune (2021) / Part One / Pastic / UHD 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

Audio Return Channel (ARC/eARC) – Explained So what exactly does HDMI ARC do, how is it used, and do we need it? Read on. A Little Background The High Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI) connection was forced upon us over 15 years ago. Over time many of its technical problems have […]

Audio Return Channel (ARC/eARC) – Explained

December 24, 2021 in Audio / General Posts tagged ARC / Audio Return Channel / eARC / Enhanced Audio Return Channel by fromvinyltoplastic

Viktor Haraszti – Equanimity – CD Review Plastic – CD Surface noise: N/A Dynamic Range: 4+ Stereo Imaging: 4+ Image depth/perspective: 4- Overall frequency response: 4+ Please see here for my comments on reviewing albums. Track List: Intro Chapter One Chapter Two […]

Viktor Haraszti – Equanimity – CD Review

December 18, 2021 in Plastic - Music / Reviews tagged CD / CD Review / Equanimity / Lisa Marie Simmons / plastic / Viktor Haraszti / ViOmusic by fromvinyltoplastic

Audyssey MultEQ-X for Denon and Marantz AVRs Sound United (Denon & Marantz) have announced their support for a new, advanced, Audyssey PC software application. The new software, MultEQ-X, gives users additional and expanded control and flexibility to calibrate existing and new home AVR’s, together with early access to new Audyssey […]

Audyssey MultEQ-X for Denon and Marantz AVRs

December 16, 2021 in Audio / Equipment / News tagged Audyssey / Denon / Marantz / Microsoft / MultEQ-X / PC / Sound United / Windows by fromvinyltoplastic