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2.1 To 11.1.8 What Does It All Mean? – A Refresher Thru the years sound reproduction has really ratchet itself up. From the good old days of mono, on to stereo and now the skies the limit for the number of speakers that your want to surround yourself with to […]

2.1 To 11.1.8 What Does It All Mean? – A Refresher

December 1, 2021 in Audio tagged Audio Formats / Auro 3D / Dolby / Dolby Atmos / Dolby Vision / DTS / DTS:X / Immersive Configurations / Video Formats by fromvinyltoplastic

Denon and Marantz AV Receivers HDMI 2.1 Bug Permanently Fixed It’s been a while coming, but wait no longer, you can now go out and buy a Denon or Marantz AV Receiver with the full confidence that it will not have the reported 4K 120Hz HDMI bug issue. Forbes and […]

Denon and Marantz AV Receivers HDMI 2.1 Bug Permanently Fixed

August 16, 2021 in Equipment / News tagged Denon / Fix / HDMI 2.1 bug / HDMI 2.1 bug fix / Marantz / Sound United by fromvinyltoplastic

HDMI 2.1 4K/120Hz Bug Fix? At the beginning of November, From Vinyl To Plastic reported the discovery of a potential chipset bug in the latest HDMI 2.1 chipsets sourced by Panasonic and used in the new Denon, Marantz, and Yamaha HDMI 2.1 8K AV Receivers. As reported on the German web site […]

HDMI 2.1 4K/120Hz Bug Fix?

December 10, 2020 in Audio / Equipment / News tagged 4K/120Hz / Bug / Denon / Fix / HDMI 2.1 / Marantz / Sound United by fromvinyltoplastic

HDMI 2.1 Bug – 4K/120Hz Failure As the video industry continues to strive for ever higher resolutions and faster frame rates an obstacle has hit several AV receiver models. Driven primarily by the gaming world, the new HDMI 2.1 standard supports features to include; 4K resolution at frame rates of […]

HDMI 2.1 Bug – 4K/120Hz Failure

November 3, 2020 in Audio / Equipment / News tagged 4KP120 / 8KP60 / Denon / Fixed Rate Link / FRL / HDMI 2.1 / Marantz / Panasonic Solutions / Sound United / Yamaha by fromvinyltoplastic

John Daversa - Cuarantena: With Family At Home - CD Review — John Daversa – Cuarantena: With Family At Home – CD Review This post contains affiliate links. Please see my full disclosure here. Plastic – CD Surface noise: N/A Dynamic Range: 5- Stereo Imaging: 4+ Image depth/perspective: 4+ Overall frequency response: 5- Please see […]

John Daversa – Cuarantena: With Family At Home – CD Review

September 27, 2020 in Mouthpiece Music / Plastic - Music / Reviews tagged CD / CD Review / Cuarantena: With Family At Home / Jazz / John Daversa / Off The Beaten Track / plastic by fromvinyltoplastic

Ariston RD11E - My Loss! — Ariston RD11E – My Loss! I thought that after 40 years I would just relate a heart felt regret to my readers and how I got onto the audiophile bandwagon. At the tender age of 23 and an entrenched “radio ham”, I visited a friends home amateur radio shack and […]

Ariston RD11E – My Loss!

March 28, 2020 in Personal Views & Comments tagged Ariston RD11E / Ariston RD11S / Entre / Hana SL / Lentek / Maudant Short / MS500 / MS600 / Sugden BC1 / Sugden SAU2 by fromvinyltoplastic

Room Equalization Technologies 101 – Part 1 Introduction You have done your best at treating your rooms acoustics with all those broadband absorber panels, diffusers and bass absorbers so what’s next? Very few rooms even if professionally designed for commercial use provide a frequency and time response that can be […]

Room Equalization Technologies 101 – Part 1

December 30, 2019 in Acoustics / Audio tagged Analog / Audio / Digital / Equilization / Room Correction / Room Equalization 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

Qobuz Is Coming Soon-Streaming On Steroids — Qobuz Is Coming Soon-Streaming On Steroids Coming to your inbox soon. This French based music streaming service is active in 11 European countries and Coming to America this fall. Will this French streaming service be the death knell for Tidal and MQA? Arriving this fall and armed with over two […]

Qobuz Is Coming Soon-Streaming On Steroids

September 11, 2018 in Audio / News tagged Hi-Res Audio / Qobuz / Streaming by fromvinyltoplastic

Vinyl Review: James Newton Howard & Friends - Sheffield Lab 23 — Vinyl Review: James Newton Howard & Friends – Sheffield Lab 23 – Released1983 Vinyl Vinyl surface noise: 4+ (not pops and clicks) Dynamic Range: 5- Stereo Imaging: 4+ Image depth/perspective: 4 Overall frequency response: 5- Plastic – CD Surface […]

Vinyl Review: James Newton Howard & Friends – Sheffield Lab 23

May 19, 2018 in Plastic - Music / Reviews / Vinyl tagged Album / D2D / Direct to Disc / LP / review / Sheffield Lab / Vinyl by fromvinyltoplastic

Cabling and Grounding for Audio, Video, Speakers and Power. Part 2 — Cabling and Grounding for Audio, Video, Speakers and Power. Part 2 Part 1 provided an insight into my views regarding cables and how to provide power and a grounding system that will prevent hum loops and sink electrical interference. In this post I discuss the various types of audio and […]

Cabling and Grounding for Audio, Video, Speakers and Power. Part 2

March 24, 2018 in Audio / Personal Views & Comments / Technical Posts / Video tagged Audio / Cables / Electrical Interference / Ground Loops / Power / Safety Ground / Signal Noise / Speaker / Technical Ground by fromvinyltoplastic