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McIntosh C2700 Valve & Semiconductor Pre-Amplifier — McIntosh C2700 Valve & Semiconductor Pre-Amplifier Cutting edge digital music capabilities combined with time tested vacuum tube performance – enter the McIntosh C2700 Valve & Semiconductor Pre-Amplifier. A Little Background About This Highly Revered Audiophile Company. Based in Binghamton, NY with over 150 employees, McIntosh Laboratory, founded in 1949, continues to […]

McIntosh C2700 Valve & Semiconductor Pre-Amplifier

October 31, 2019 in Audio / Equipment / News tagged C2700 / McIntosh / Tube Pre-Amplifier by fromvinyltoplastic

Love Over Gold - 180 Gram Vinyl Review — This post contains affiliate links. Please see my full disclosure here. Love Over Gold – 180 Gram Vinyl Review Vinyl surface noise: 4 Dynamic Range: 4+ Stereo Imaging: 4+ Image depth/perspective: 4 Overall frequency response: 4 Side One Telegraph Road Private […]

Love Over Gold – 180 Gram Vinyl Review

October 25, 2019 in Reviews / Vinyl tagged 180gram / Dire Straits / Love Over Gold / MoFi / Vinyl / Vinyl Review by fromvinyltoplastic

8K CTA TV Certification — 8K CTA TV Certification The Consumer Technology Association (CTA) has confirmed the official industry definition and logo for 8K TV’s. The new logo and certification process will come into effect with 2020 TV’s that meet its definition of 8K Ultra High-Definition, the “next-generation” of high-resolution video. This new standard was […]

8K CTA TV Certification

October 23, 2019 in Equipment / News / Video tagged 8K / Consumer Technology Association / CTA / TV by fromvinyltoplastic

Panasonic UB9000 News Flash — Panasonic UB9000 News Flash Panasonic UB9000 News Flash: It is strongly rumored that a firmware upgrade is available that enables the UB9000 to play SACD plastic discs. This is tremendous news for all audiophiles like myself. All we need now is for the palyer to support Hi-Res audio on DVDA. […]

Panasonic UB9000 News Flash

October 2, 2019 in Audio / Equipment / News tagged Firmware / Panasonic / UB9000 / upgrade by fromvinyltoplastic

Integra DRC-R1.3, DRX-R1.3, DRX-7.3 – First Look Introduction The day I decided to buy my first amplifier (1987) I purchased an Onkyo Integra A-8190 stereo 100 watt amplifier and remained loyal to Onkyo Integra for years purchasing many of their products until I graduated to the Denon AVP-A1HDCI. With it […]

Integra DRC-R1.3, DRX-R1.3, DRX-7.3 – First Look

September 21, 2019 in Audio / Equipment / News tagged DRC-R1.3 / DRX-7.3 / DRX-R1.3 / Integra by fromvinyltoplastic

Panasonic UB9000 News Flash — Panasonic UB9000 & JVC DLA-NX9 Demo On March the 15th JVC announced that they were collaborating with Panasonic to use the HDR metadata contained in 4K UHD discs and available over the HDMI connection in order to optimize the display of HDR material. One of […]

Panasonic UB9000 & JVC DLA-NX9 Demo

March 24, 2019 in Equipment / Equipment / News / Reviews tagged DLA-NX9 / DLA-RS3000 / JVC / Panasonic / UB9000 / Value Electronics by fromvinyltoplastic

Oppo HDR10plus and DV Passthrough Official Firmware Release — Oppo HDR10+ and DV Passthrough Official Firmware Release Latest Firmware Update Oppo have just released the official version of the public Beta test software that added support for; HDR10+ Dolby Vision pass through for the external HDMI input Release Date: February 8, 2019 […]

Oppo HDR10plus and DV Passthrough Official Firmware Release

February 10, 2019 in Equipment / Firmware Updates / News tagged Dolby Vision / Firmware Update / HDR10+ / Oppo / UDP203 / UDP205 by fromvinyltoplastic

Panasonic DP-UB450 and DP-UB150 and Sony UBP-X800M2 — Panasonic DP-UB450 and DP-UB150 and Sony UBP-X800M2 @ CES 2019 What is happening to plastic physical media? Sales of vinyl media are sky rocketing and we saw at CES 2019 a good showing of new turntables from companies like Cambridge, VPI, Audio-Technica, Technics and Sony to name just a few. […]

Panasonic DP-UB450 and DP-UB150 and Sony UBP-X800M2

January 26, 2019 in Equipment / News tagged CES 2019 / DP-UB150 / DP-UB450 / Panasonic / Sony / UBP-X800M2 by fromvinyltoplastic

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8K Association is Formed-But Why? Overview During CES 2019 the newly formed 8K Association held its inaugural meeting where its Executive Director, Chris Chinnock, is hoping to create a series of events to get the video industry on the same 8K page. The newly-formed 8K Association (8KA, for short) is currently […]

8K Association is Formed-But Why?

January 19, 2019 in News / Video tagged 8K / 8K Association / 8KA by fromvinyltoplastic

Oppo UDP-203 and UDP-205 Now Support HDR10+ — Oppo UDP-203 and UDP-205 Now Support HDR10+ It is now official, the Oppo UDP-203 and Oppo UDP-205 4K UHD players now support HDR10+. The US public Beta firmware version UDP20X-60-0625 has just been made available on Oppo’s official web site. For those in the UK/EU click here for the […]

Oppo UDP-203 and UDP-205 Now Support HDR10+

December 29, 2018 in Equipment / News tagged HDR10+ Firmware / Oppo / Oppo 203 / Oppo 205 / UDP 203 / UDP-205 by fromvinyltoplastic

Pioneer UDP-LX500 & UDP-LX800 4K UHD Blu-ray Players-First Look — This post contains affiliate links. Please see my full disclosure here. Pioneer UDP-LX500 & UDP-LX800 4K UHD Blu-ray Players-First Look Introduction Manufacturers seem to be rushing in to fill the void left […]

Pioneer UDP-LX500 & UDP-LX800 4K UHD Blu-ray Players-First Look

September 22, 2018 in Equipment / News tagged 4K Blu-ray Player / Audiophile / Elite / Pioneer / UDP-LX500 / UDP-LX800 / UHD Player by fromvinyltoplastic

Denon IMAX Enhanced Receivers-First Look — Denon IMAX Enhanced Receivers-First Look Image Credit Denon During CEDIA 2018, San Diego, Denon released the industry’s first IMAX Enhanced-Ready 4K AV Receivers with HDMI 2.1 and HDCP2.2 support. So Denon seems to be leading the hardware race by releasing three new IMAX Enhanced-Ready receivers, the […]

Denon IMAX Enhanced Receivers-First Look

September 17, 2018 in Equipment / News tagged AV Receiver / AVR-6500H / AVR-8500H / AVR-X4500H / Denon / IMAX Enhanced by fromvinyltoplastic

JVC 4K Projectors Back In Production-Update — JVC Native 4K and Pseudo 8K Projectors Image Credit JVC 2016 saw the release of the DLA-RS4500K a high end 4K native projector, I am sure to test their latest native 4K panel technology. This projector was very expensive costing $34,995.95 list. Not something that the average HT enthusiast could […]

JVC Native 4K and Pseudo 8K Projectors

September 8, 2018 in Equipment / News tagged DILA / DLA-NX5 / DLA-NX7 / DLA-NX9 / DLA-RS1000 / DLA-RS2000 / DLA-RS3000 / E-Shift / JVC / Native 4K / Projectors / Pseudo 8K by fromvinyltoplastic

High Resolution and Master Quality Authenticated Audio - MQA — MQA Hi Res Audio – Streamings Holy Grail Introduction There are now enough articles, streaming services and CD’s that I thought that I would re-visit MQA encoding, particularly after several e-mail exchanges with David Elias, a Hawaii based Acoustic Music writer, producer and studio owner. David writes, produces and records […]

MQA Hi Res Audio – Streamings Holy Grail

September 2, 2018 in Audio tagged Bob Stuart / Hi-Res Audio / Meridian / MQA / Oppo 205 / Streaming / USBDAC by fromvinyltoplastic

Oppo UDP-205 4K UHD Player Review — Review: Oppo UDP-205 4K UHD Player Having snatched up one of the last UDP-203 players just before Oppo announced that they would make a final batch, I also put my name down for one of the final batches of 205 players. Well I was one of the lucky […]

Oppo UDP-205 4K UHD Player Review

July 22, 2018 in Equipment / Reviews tagged 4K Blu-ray Player / Audiophile / HDR / Master Quality Authenticated / MQA / Oppo / UDP-205 / UHD / USB DAC by fromvinyltoplastic