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Masimo Enters Into Agreement To Acquire Sound United I have followed the continued growth of Sound United over the years as it brought together under its wings many well known and very established audiophile companies to include; Denon, Marantz, Definitive Technology, Classe, Polk, HEOS, Boston Acoustics and recently Bowers & […]

Masimo Enters Into Agreement To Acquire Sound United

February 22, 2022 in Equipment / News tagged Masimo / Sound United by fromvinyltoplastic

HDMI 2.1 & 2.1a Compliance Certification – Utter Confusion! I have never hidden my disdain for BOTH HDMI and HDCP but now I have good reason to truly despise the entire set of standards. At CES 2022 yet another version of HDMI was introduced, 2.1a. The point here is that […]

HDMI 2.1 & 2.1a Compliance Certification – Utter Confusion!

January 27, 2022 in Equipment / News tagged 2.1 / 2.1a / HDMI / SBTM / Source Based Tone Mapping by fromvinyltoplastic

Yamaha Aventage RX-A8A, RX-A6A and RX-A4A Yamaha’s new premium Aventage AV receiver range, the RX-A8A, RX-A6A and RX-A4A AVRs have taken one giant leap for mankind by offering full HDMI 2.1 connectivity and support for all of their seven HDMI 8K inputs. This is a major leap over all of […]

Yamaha Aventage RX-A8A, RX-A6A and RX-A4A

May 29, 2021 in Equipment / News tagged Aventage / AVR / HDMI 2.1 / RX-A4A / RX-A6A / RX-A8A / Yamaha by fromvinyltoplastic

AVR-X8500HA & AV8805A HDMI 8K Upgrade All Image Credit: Denon and Marantz. Well it looks like we are on a roll for 8K upgrades, HDMI 2.1 support and the fix for the HDMI 2.1 bug. This hardware and firmware upgrade for the Denon […]

AVR-X8500HA & AV8805A HDMI 8K Upgrade

May 28, 2021 in Equipment / News tagged AV8805 / AVR-8500H / Denon / HDMI Upgrade / Marantz by fromvinyltoplastic

Yamaha Reveals HDMI 2.1 Bug Fix Just as with Denon and Marantz, Yamaha found itself in the same HDMI 2.1 bug boat towards the end of 2020 that was plaguing their new HDMI 2.1 AV receivers. The problem prevented AVRs passing through 4K at 120Hz correctly from Xbox Series X […]

Yamaha Reveals HDMI 2.1 Bug Fix

May 26, 2021 in Equipment / News tagged Bug Fix / HDMI2.1 / RX-A2A / RX-V4A / RX-V6A / TSR-400 / TSR-700 / Yamaha 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

Sound United Closes Deal On Acquisition Of Bowers & Wilkins — Sound United Closes Deal On Acquisition Of Bowers & Wilkins Sound United LLC, the parent company to Boston Acoustics, Classé, Denon/HEOS, Definitive Technology, Polk Audio and Marantz has just announced that it has finalized the acquisition of Bowers & Wilkins, a leading British-based designer and manufacturer of premium home speakers, […]

Sound United Closes Deal On Acquisition Of Bowers & Wilkins

October 11, 2020 in Audio / Equipment / News tagged Acquisition / Bowers & Wilkins / Sound United by fromvinyltoplastic

Sound United Closes Deal On Acquisition Of Bowers & Wilkins — Sound United Acquires Bowers & Wilkins Sound United, the parent company of Denon, Marantz, Polk Audio and many more audio-video brands has announced its intention to acquire audiophile speaker manufacturer Bowers & Wilkins. Kevin Duffy, CEO at Sound United, said in a statement: “Over the course of five decades Bowers […]

Sound United Acquires Bowers & Wilkins

June 23, 2020 in Audio / News tagged Bowers & Wilkins / Sound United LLC by fromvinyltoplastic

Analog Amplifiers. Are You Sure? — Analog Amplifiers. Are You Sure? A Pause for Thought You wanted an all analog signal chain for stereo or even multi-channel sound……well think again! When you buy your new ‘analog’ amplifier or home theater receiver, ask yourself, how analog is it? In order to build cost-effective amplifiers and receivers manufacturers […]

Analog Amplifiers. Are You Sure?

January 12, 2020 in Audio / Personal Views & Comments tagged Analog / Audio / Audio Amplifiers / AV Receiver / Digital / Potentiometer / Receiver / Switch / Switched Mode Power Supply / Volume Control 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

Acoustics 101-Designing Porous, Resonant and Reflective Sound Treatments — Loudspeaker Basics 101 – Part 3 In Loudspeaker Basics 101 part 3, this final post in the series, we examine where your stereo/satellite speakers should be placed, and in particular the optimum locations for your sub-woofers. Introduction Life was so much easier years ago when we just had monophonic reproduction […]

Loudspeaker Basics 101 – Part 3

October 18, 2019 in Audio / Technical Posts tagged Atmos / Auro 3D / DTS:X / Immersive Sound / Loudspeaker Basics 101 / Multi-Channel Audio / Satellite Speakers / Stereo / Sub Placement / Subwoofers by fromvinyltoplastic

Sound United To Aquire Pioneer & Onkyo Brands — Sound United Terminates Onkyo Acquisition Talks between Sound United and Onkyo Consumer Audio have broken down resulting in both companies backing out of an acquisition agreement. In my earlier post in mid-May, Sound United LLC had announced the signing of a term-sheet agreement to acquire Onkyo Corporation’s consumer audio division […]

Sound United Terminates Onkyo Acquisition

October 8, 2019 in Audio / Equipment / News tagged Onkyo / Pioneer / Sound United LLC / Viper Holdings 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

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