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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

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

My Home Theater: The Original Acoustic Measurements — My last post reviewed My A/V Rooms equipment and the cabling. Lets see how the room originally measured using some basic and easy to use Studio Six Digital iPhone and iPad applications. Introduction During my early days of testing the rooms acoustics I used a suite of tools […]

My Home Theater: The Original Acoustic Measurements

November 13, 2017 in Acoustics / Home Theater Construction / My A/V Room tagged Acoustic Measurements / Acoustics / Audyssey / REW / Room Equalization Wizard / Studio Six Digital 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

My Home Theater Design and Construction — After years of using the family living areas as make do listening and viewing rooms I finally had the opportunity to build my own dedicated home theater, or as I prefer to call it My A/V Room, and so I started my home theatre design and construction project. The room is not […]

My Home Theater Design and Construction

September 10, 2017 in Acoustics / Home Theater Construction / My A/V Room tagged Acoustics / Construction by fromvinyltoplastic

Thorens TD160S, Hadcock GH228S and Lentek Head Amp Upgrade and Rebuild — Thorens TD160S, Hadcock GH228S and Lentek Head Amp Upgrade and Rebuild 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. I have owned my Thorens TD160 Super, Hadcock GH228 Super, Lentek Entre 1 […]

Thorens TD160S, Hadcock GH228S and Lentek Head Amp Upgrade and Rebuild

August 7, 2017 in Audio / Equipment Rebuilds and Upgrades tagged Cartdridge / Entre / Falcon PSU / GH228 / Hadcock / Head Amplifier / Lentek / Nitty Gritty / Phoenix / RoadRunner / Thorens by fromvinyltoplastic

My system has eleven satellite monitors manufactured by Genelec. Why? Because I am relatively familiar with their speakers in professional rooms and wanted a core five channel audio system that was representative of what is used in the recording and music production industry. The five 1038 monitors are professional PM3 […]

Speaker System

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

My A/V Room & Equipment Click one of the following links to learn more: Listening and Viewing Environment Speaker System Projector and Screen Additional Video Processing Vinyl Playback Hardware Plastic Disc Playback Hardware Reviewing Vinyl & Plastic My A/V Rack Equipment: Rack UPS Rack monitors […]

My A/V Room & Equipment

February 12, 2017 by fromvinyltoplastic