Vinyl Sales Up 94% In 2021 Vinyl continues to manage a remarkable resurgence. After yet another year of lock down in 2020 vinyl seems to be continuing its exceptional winning streak in 2021. The Record Industry Association of America (RIAA) has just posted its mid-year music revenue report, showing that […]

Vinyl Sales Up 94% In 2021

RSD 2021 Full List of Black Friday Vinyl Releases Many more exclusive vinyl album releases coming Friday, November 26th. Black Friday, the first Friday after Thanksgiving, has traditionally been the unofficial start of the holiday shopping season. It’s all about real low cost deals on a vast range of mass-produced […]

RSD 2021 Full List of Black Friday Vinyl Releases

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Onkyo, Pioneer, and Integra Get Dirac Live Onkyo, Pioneer, Pioneer Elite and Integra AV receivers upgrade to Dirac Live. Read the announcement from Dirac here. The Swedish software development company Dirac has announced that it will be supplying its patented room correction technologies and software, Dirac Live, to the latest […]

Onkyo, Pioneer, and Integra Get Dirac Live

Denon AVS-3 and Marantz VS3003 8K HDMI 2.1 3 Port Switchers All Image Credit: Denon & Marantz Do you own one of the latest 8K AVR’s from Denon or Marantz that only have one HDMI 2.1 compliant 8K input? Tired of swapping HDMI cables for your PS5, Xbox Series X, […]

Denon AVS-3 and Marantz VS3003 8K HDMI 2.1 3 Port Switchers

Linear Low Noise Analog Power Supplies – DIY This post contains affiliate links. Please see my full disclosure here. Updated test results – 09/28/2021, replaced original 9VAC transformer with 14VAC transformer. As a young teenage electronics enthusiast and licensed UK radio amateur (G8GBL), and all the way up to my early forties, […]

Linear Low Noise Analog Power Supplies – DIY

G.I.Joe: Retaliation – 4K Blu-ray Review         Paramount Pictures | 2013 PG13 | 1hrs 50 min | Action | Adventure | Thriller | Sc-Fi HD | 1080P | Dolby TrueHD 7.1 Upscaled 4K | 2160P | Dolby Vison | HDR10 | Dolby TrueHD 7.1 Aspect Ratio 2.39:1 […]

G.I.Joe: Retaliation – 4K Blu-ray Review

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JVC Releases Three 8K HDMI 2.1 Laser Projectors – First Look I just sat through an very informative on-line presentation of this new range of 8K laser, HDMI 2.1 projectors that was arranged by The Screening Room, Chris Deutsch of JVC and Kris Deering of Deep Dive AV. See the […]

JVC Releases Three 8K HDMI 2.1 Laser Projectors – First Look

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

Vinyl Production Quality – What Happened? A Personal Rant. What has/is happening to the quality control and pressing quality of todays vinyl albums? Several of my recent vinyl album purchases have been returned several times to get one that is acceptable….. with no luck! Note that I said acceptable, not […]

Vinyl Production Quality – What Happened?

Phoenix Falcon Turntable Speed Controller – Power Supply Upgrade               As with many Hi-Fi and audiophile products designers often have to hit a price point. One of the most common ways of cutting costs is to use an external and inexpensive switched mode power […]

Phoenix Falcon Turntable Speed Controller – Power Supply Upgrade

MX-VYNL Analog Power Supply – Upgrade UPDATED: 8/28/2021. During my original review of the MX-VYNL phono pre-amplifier I discovered that its external, inexpensive switched mode supply, caused noise problems which I improved with the addition of a couple of ferrite beads on the DC power supply cord feeding the pre-amp. […]

MX-VYNL Analog Power Supply – Upgrade

Roseanna Vitro – Listen Here – 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: No More Blues You Go […]

Roseanna Vitro – Listen Here – CD Review

Amazon Starts Monthly Vinyl Subscription Service This post contains affiliate links. Please see my full disclosure here. Always looking out for another way to make a buck, and never wanting to miss out on an opportunity, Amazon has just announced, and is trialling, its new vinyl subscription service here in America. I […]

Amazon Starts Monthly Vinyl Subscription Service

GATTACA – 4K Blu-ray Review         Sony Pictures | 1997 PG13 | 1hrs 46 min | Drama |  Thriller | Sc-Fi HD | 1080P | Dolby TrueHD 5.1 Native 4K | 2160P | HDR10 | Dolby Atmos | Dolby TrueHD 7.1 | DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 Aspect […]

GATTACA – 4K Blu-ray Review

The Gil Evans Orchestra – Out Of The Cool – Vinyl Review           Vinyl surface noise: 5 Dynamic Range: 5 Stereo Imaging: 5- Image depth/perspective: 4 Overall frequency response: 5-             Side 1: La Nevada Where Flamingos Fly Side 2: Bilboa […]

The Gil Evans Orchestra – Out Of The Cool – Vinyl Review