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Review: Monoprice SlimRun HDMI Fiber Optic Cable — Review: Monoprice SlimRun & C2G HDMI Fiber Optic Cables This post contains affiliate links. Please see my full disclosure here. So after ten years of using an active Accell UltraRun 10.2Gb/s HDMI copper cable that supported 1080P60 4:4:4, to drive my projector, I needed […]

Review: Monoprice SlimRun & C2G HDMI Fiber Optic Cables

May 2, 2018 in Cables & Interconnects / Reviews tagged 4:4:4 / C2G / Cables To Go / Fiber Optical / HDCP2.2 / HDMI / HDMI 2.0 / Monoprice / SlimRun by fromvinyltoplastic

Flat Panel TV and Projector Technology - Part 2 — Flat Panel TV and Projector Technology – Part 2 The first post examined the technologies used in the current modern day flat panel displays. We continue with a review of those technologies and techniques as used in today’s modern residential home theater projectors. Projectors LCD The first affordable residential projectors […]

Flat Panel TV and Projector Technology – Part 2

April 29, 2018 in Technical Posts / Video tagged DILA / DLP / DMD / LASER / LCD / LCoS / LED / SXRD by fromvinyltoplastic

Flat Panel TV and Projector Technology — Flat Panel TV and Projector Technology Display technologies have come a long way since those early black and white cathode ray tubes (CRT). This two-part post will review the latest display technologies and techniques and their advantages and disadvantages. This first post with provide an overview of both flat panel […]

Flat Panel TV and Projector Technology

April 22, 2018 in Technical Posts / Video tagged DILA / DLP / DMD / LCD / LCoS / LED / QLED / Quantum dot / SXRD by fromvinyltoplastic

Vinyl Review: Tower Of Power - Sheffield Lab 17 — Vinyl Review: Tower Of Power – Sheffield Lab 17 – Released 1981 Vinyl Surface noise: 5 (not pops and clicks) Dynamic Range: 4+ Stereo Imaging: 4 Image depth/perspective: 4 Overall frequency response: 4 Plastic -CD Vinyl surface noise: N/A Dynamic Range: […]

Vinyl Review: Tower Of Power – Sheffield Lab 17

February 25, 2018 in Reviews / Vinyl tagged Album / D2D / Direct to Disc / LP / Sheffield Lab / Vinyl Review by fromvinyltoplastic

Vinyl and CD Review: Growing Up In Hollywood Town - Sheffield Lab 13 — Vinyl and CD Review: Growing Up In Hollywood Town – Sheffield Lab 13 – Released 1980 Vinyl Vinyl surface noise: 5- (not pops and clicks) Dynamic Range: 5- Stereo Imaging: 5- Image depth/perspective: 4+ Overall frequency response: 4+ […]

Vinyl and CD Review: Growing Up In Hollywood Town – Sheffield Lab 13

January 5, 2018 in Plastic - Music / Reviews / Vinyl tagged Album / CD / D2D / Direct to Disc / LP / Sheffield Lab / Vinyl by fromvinyltoplastic

4K UHD HDR-10 Calibration — 4K UHD HDR-10 Calibration – A Brief Introduction Calibrating 4K UHD video display systems is anything but simple, even for the professional, as there is no truly accurate way to calibrate them yet. Calibrating projector systems is even more challenging as they can’t produce anywhere near the required brightness, or […]

4K UHD HDR-10 Calibration

November 26, 2017 in Video tagged 4K Calibration / Diversified Video Solutions / HDR-10 / Spears & Munsil / UHD Test Disc / VideoForge by fromvinyltoplastic

Acoustics 101-Designing Porous, Resonant and Reflective Sound Treatments — My A/V Room was finally built out and the initial acoustic treatment installed, so the next task for my home theater was installing the equipment and cabling it all up. A full list of equipment that the room contains is also provided here in the first post. A/V […]

My Home Theater: The Equipment and Cabling It All Up

November 4, 2017 in Home Theater Construction / My A/V Room tagged Construction / Home theater equipment by fromvinyltoplastic

Is 4K4U Yet? — So how ready are we all to plunge into the world of 4K? Is 4K4U yet? I am often dismayed by both professional and consumer manufactures who, in their rush to turn a profit, release products to ‘shaky’ standards that are just not ready for prime time or the […]

Is 4K4U Yet With 8K Just Around The Corner?

September 29, 2017 in Personal Views & Comments / Video tagged 4K / UHD by fromvinyltoplastic

vinyl records and direct to disc — The Recording Process – my 2 Cents I have always had a preference for the sound of well recorded vinyl records and direct to disc recordings, especially when played back on an audiophile stereo system. Their level of realism and involvement is often difficult to improve upon. I cannot say […]

Vinyl Records and Direct To Disc

August 19, 2017 in Audio / Reviews / Vinyl tagged Album / D2D / Direct to Disc / LP / Neuman / Scully / Sheffield Lab / Vinyl by fromvinyltoplastic

Vinyl and Plastic Reviews – My Approach Audio – Albums I am not a musician and cannot play any instrument. My love of music is really based upon its production, how well it was recorded and transferred to the replay medium. My taste in music is eclectic from Classical to […]

Reviewing Vinyl & Plastic

June 24, 2017 by fromvinyltoplastic

Da-Lite Electrol Screen Review — Projector and Screen I have never been overly fond of projectors that require alignment of multiple panels due to pixel registration issues and the resulting fringing and softening of the image. I therefore tend to gravitate to single chip DLP projectors and currently use a THX professionally aligned (ISFTV, Kevin […]

Projector and Screen

February 12, 2017 by fromvinyltoplastic

Plastic discs encompass – DVD, Blu Ray, UHD Blu Ray 4K, CD, DVDA, SACD, Blu Ray Audio. So what do I review those shiny Plastic discs on? Denon DBP-A100 + Denon Link4 Oppo BDP 103 Oppo UDP 203 Oppo UDP 205 Even though these players have all their video […]

Plastic

February 12, 2017 by fromvinyltoplastic

If you, the reader, are to have any idea as to the validity of any of my reviews, in particular BluRays and vinyl, yes I am a real vinyl enthusiast (with an original turntable and all!), you should first have a detailed view of my listening and viewing environment that […]

Listening and Viewing Environment

February 12, 2017 by fromvinyltoplastic

Welcome to From Vinyl to Plastic! My little corner of the web where audio and video are the thing. Have you ever dreamed of building your own home theater, or having a listening space with great sound? Do you wonder about some of that top notch gear you are dreaming about? […]

Welcome!

September 20, 2016 in Start Here tagged Welcome by fromvinyltoplastic