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San Gabriel 7 & Femi Knight - Red Dress - CD Review — San Gabriel 7 & Femi Knight – Red Dress – CD Review This post contains affiliate links. Please see my full disclosure here. Plastic – CD Surface noise: N/A Dynamic Range: 5- Stereo Imaging: 5- Image depth/perspective:4+ Overall frequency response: 5- […]

San Gabriel 7 & Femi Knight – Red Dress – CD Review

September 9, 2020 in Mouthpiece Music / Plastic - Music / Reviews tagged CD / Femi Knight / Jazz / Mouthpiece Music / Off The Beaten Track / plastic / Progressive Funk Jazz / Red Dress / review / San Gabriel 7 by fromvinyltoplastic

EMM Labs DS-EQ1 Phono Pre-amp — EMM Labs DS-EQ1 Phono Pre-amp EMM Labs of Canada has released their new optical cartridge equalizer, the DS-EQ1 which is fully compatible with DS Audio optical cartridge range. Having auditioned the DS ES-1 optical cartridge, I am definitely an admirer of this cartridge technology. So it was with great interest […]

EMM Labs DS-EQ1 Phono Pre-amp

September 8, 2020 in Audio / Equipment / News tagged DS Audio / DS-EQ1 / Ed Meitner / EMM Labs by fromvinyltoplastic

Monoprice Tube Amplifiers - First Look — Monoprice Tube Amplifiers – First Look Introduction The tube amplifier has seen a resurgence in recent years due to the warm, pleasing sound that only a tube amplifier can offer. The Monoprice Pure Tube Amplifier, shown above, utilizes four EL84 tubes for the power output stage and three 6N3 tubes […]

Monoprice Tube Amplifiers – First Look

August 29, 2020 in Audio / Equipment / News tagged Class AB / Hybrid Tube Amplifier / Low Cost / Monoprice / Pure Tube Stereo Amplifier / Tube power Amplifier / Valve by fromvinyltoplastic

Lentek Head Amplifier Adjustable Loading — Lentek Head Amplifier Adjustable Loading The original three loading positions that I added to this head amplifier worked just fine, but I wanted to see if I could make it even more versatile and flexible. I initially tried using a linear 1000 ohm dual gang 20% & 10% tolerance plastic film […]

Lentek Head Amplifier Adjustable Loading

August 23, 2020 in Equipment Rebuilds and Upgrades tagged Head Amplifier / Lentek / upgrade / Variable Loading by fromvinyltoplastic

Darbee 4K - PXLVision Coming Soon — Darbee 4K – PXLVision Coming Soon Introduction I was so skeptical when several years ago one of my readers sent me a message saying that; “his new Darbee Darblet provided a significant visual improvement to his HD image with little or no artifacts”. This I had to see to believe, […]

Darbee 4K – PXLVision Coming Soon

August 16, 2020 in Equipment / News tagged 4K / Darbee / Darblet / DVP5000S / DVPTM / Pixelgen Design / PXLVision by fromvinyltoplastic

HANA Umami Red - MC Phono Cartridge — HANA Umami Red – MC Phono Cartridge All images credit: Excel Sound Corporation. HANA phono cartridges are manufactured by Japan’s Excel Sound Corporation. Since their introduction they have continued to attract a growing customer base, and deservedly so. (華) Hana, in Japanese means “Brilliant and Gorgeous”, a cartridge born from superb […]

HANA Umami Red – MC Phono Cartridge

August 4, 2020 in Audio / News tagged Hana / MC / Moving Coil Cartridge / Umami Red by fromvinyltoplastic

Marantz 8K SR-Series AV receivers - First Look — Marantz 8K SR-Series AV Receivers – First Look (Images Credit: Marantz) Hot on the heels of the Denon 8K receiver release we knew that Marantz would not be too far behind, especially as both compnaies share the same technical stable and are owned by […]

Marantz 8K SR-Series AV Receivers – First Look

July 25, 2020 in Audio / Equipment / News tagged First Look / Marantz / SR Series / SR5015 / SR6015 / SR7015 / SR8015 by fromvinyltoplastic

Neil Young - Harvest - Yesteryear Vinyl — Neil Young – Harvest – Yesteryear Vinyl Harvest is the fourth studio album by Canadian/American musician Neil Young being released in February 1972 on Reprise Records. It featured the London Symphony Orchestra on two tracks and vocals by noted guests; David Crosby, Stephen Stills, Graham Nash, Linda Ronstadt, and James […]

Neil Young – Harvest – Yesteryear Vinyl

July 19, 2020 in Reviews / Vinyl of Yesteryear tagged Harvest / Neil Young / review / Vinyl / Vinyl Review / Yesteryear by fromvinyltoplastic

Lyn Stanley - The Moonlight Sessions Vol2 - SACD Review — Lyn Stanley – The Moonlight Sessions Vol 2 – SACD Review Plastic – SACD Surface noise: N/A Dynamic Range: 5- Stereo Imaging: 5 Image depth/perspective: 5- Overall frequency response: 5- Track List: Makin’ Whoopee The Very Thought Of You […]

Lyn Stanley – The Moonlight Sessions Vol 2 – SACD Review

July 12, 2020 in Plastic - Music / Reviews tagged Female Vocal / Lyn Stanley / plastic / review / SACD Review / The Moonlight Sessions Vol 2 by fromvinyltoplastic

Lentek Head Amplifier Upgrade Designed by Peter Baxandall for use with the Lentek Entre moving coil cartridge, this little gem has a lot to offer when paired with other moving coil cartridges and a high quality phono pre-amp like the MX-VYNL. With +28dB of gain and a low nose figure the […]

Lentek Head Amplifier Upgrade

July 12, 2020 in Audio / Equipment Rebuilds and Upgrades tagged Adjustable Cartridge Loading / Head Amplifier / Lentek / Moving Coil / Moving Coil Cartridge by fromvinyltoplastic

Beatles - Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - Yesteryear Vinyl — Beatles – Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band – Yesteryear Vinyl Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band is the eighth studio album by the English rock band the Beatles. It was produced by George Martin and released on 26th May 1967 in the United Kingdom and 2nd June 1967 in […]

Beatles – Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band – Yesteryear Vinyl

July 4, 2020 in Reviews / Vinyl of Yesteryear tagged Beatles / Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band / Vinyl / Vinyl Review / Yesteryear 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

Denon X6700H & X4700H 8K Receivers If you are a regular visitor to my site you will already know my views regarding 8K video. But here we go again, ‘if they build it, many will buy it’. Denon’s world first 8K-ready AVRs are feature-packed and future-proofed. They build on the […]

Denon X6700H & X4700H 8K Receivers

June 11, 2020 in Equipment / News tagged 8K / AVR X2700H / AVR X3700H / AVR X4700H / AVR X6700H / Denon / HDCP2.3 by fromvinyltoplastic

Pink Floyd – Animals – Yesteryear Vinyl Animals is the tenth studio album by English rock band Pink Floyd. It was released in January 1977 through Harvest and Columbia Records and recorded at the band’s Britannia Row Studios in London throughout 1976. The album continues the longform compositions that made […]

Pink Floyd – Animals – Yesteryear Vinyl

June 7, 2020 in Reviews / Vinyl of Yesteryear tagged Animals / Pink Floyd / Vinyl / Vinyl Review / Yesteryear by fromvinyltoplastic

Leak Is Back. What's Next Radford? — Leak Is Back. What’s Next Radford? Introduction The UK was the birth place of many of the original audiophile companies like Leak, Quad, Wharfdale, Radford, Celestion, Decca, EMI, English Electric etc. to name but a few. Many of these very […]

Leak Is Back. What’s Next Radford?

June 6, 2020 in Audio / Equipment / News tagged AIG / CDT / Leak / Stereo 130 by fromvinyltoplastic