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Vinyl and CD Review: Growing Up In Hollywood Town - Sheffield Lab 13 — Vinyl and CD Review: Growing Up In Hollywood Town – Sheffield Lab 13 – Released 1980 Vinyl Vinyl surface noise: 5- (not pops and clicks) Dynamic Range: 5- Stereo Imaging: 5- Image depth/perspective: 4+ Overall frequency response: 4+ […]

Vinyl and CD Review: Growing Up In Hollywood Town – Sheffield Lab 13

January 5, 2018 in Plastic - Music / Reviews / Vinyl tagged Album / CD / D2D / Direct to Disc / LP / Sheffield Lab / Vinyl by fromvinyltoplastic

Movie Review: The Dark Tower — Blue-ray Movie Review: The Dark Tower Sony Pictures 2017 PG13 | 1hrs 35 mins | Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi HD | 1080P | DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 4K | 2160P | HDR10 | Dolby Vision | Dolby Atmos | Dolby TrueHD7.1 | DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 […]

Blu-ray Movie Review: The Dark Tower

January 5, 2018 in Plastic - Movies / Reviews tagged Blu-Ray / movies / plastic / review / The Dark Tower by fromvinyltoplastic

Vinyl and DVDA Review: Diana Krall - When I Look in Your Eyes — Vinyl and DVDA Review: Diana Krall – When I Look in Your Eyes Vinyl Surface noise: 4+ (not pops & clicks) Dynamic Range: 4 Stereo Imaging: 4+ Image depth/perspective: 4 Overall frequency response: 4+ Plastic – DVDA Surface noise: N/A Dynamic Range: […]

Vinyl and DVDA Review: Diana Krall – When I Look in Your Eyes

January 4, 2018 in Plastic - Music / Reviews / Vinyl tagged Album / Diana Krall / DVDA / LP / plastic / Vinyl by fromvinyltoplastic

Blue-Ray Review: Kong-Skull Island — Blue-ray Review: Kong-Skull Island Warner Brothers 2017 PG13 | 1hrs 58 mins | Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi HD | 1080P | Dolby Atmos 4K | 2160P | HDR10 | Dolby Atmos | Dolby TrueHD7.1 | DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 2.40:1 Aspect Ratio Starring: Tom Hiddleston, Samuel […]

Blue-ray Review: Kong-Skull Island

December 14, 2017 in Plastic - Movies / Reviews tagged Blu-Ray / Kong Skull Island / movies / plastic / review by fromvinyltoplastic

HDMI 2.1 is here – for better or worse. So what is all the hoopla all about? Before you launch yourself into this wondrous new standard maybe you should read my earlier post on HDMI 2.0 and HDCP first. HDMI 2.1 Introduction and Overview The good news – It’s […]

HDMI 2.1 Is Here For Better or Worse

December 2, 2017 in Video tagged 10K / 48 Gbps / 8K / ALLM / HDMI 2.1 / QFT / QMS by fromvinyltoplastic

4K UHD HDR-10 Calibration — 4K UHD HDR-10 Calibration – A Brief Introduction Calibrating 4K UHD video display systems is anything but simple, even for the professional, as there is no truly accurate way to calibrate them yet. Calibrating projector systems is even more challenging as they can’t produce anywhere near the required brightness, or […]

4K UHD HDR-10 Calibration

November 26, 2017 in Video tagged 4K Calibration / Diversified Video Solutions / HDR-10 / Spears & Munsil / UHD Test Disc / VideoForge by fromvinyltoplastic

Blue-Ray Review: Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales — Blue-ray Review: Pirates Of The Caribbean-Dead Men Tell No Tales Walt Disney Pictures 2017 PG13 | 2hrs 9 mins | Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi HD | 1080P | Dolby Atmos 4K | 2160P | HDR10 | Dolby Atmos 2.40:1 Aspect Ratio Starring: Johnny Depp, Javier Bardem, […]

Blue-ray Review: Pirates Of The Caribbean-Dead Men Tell No Tales

November 24, 2017 in Plastic - Movies / Reviews tagged Blu-Ray / movies / Pirates of the Caribbean / plastic / review 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

Blu-Ray Review: Ghost In The Shell — Blu-ray Review: Ghost In The Shell Paramount Pictures 2017 PG13 | 1hrs 46 mins | Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi HD | 1080P | Dolby Atmos 4K | 2160P | HDR10 | Dolby Atmos 2.40:1 Aspect Ratio Starring: Scarlett Johnasson, Pilou Asbeak, Takeshi Kitano and Micheal Pitt Directed […]

Blu-ray Review: Ghost In The Shell

November 4, 2017 in Plastic - Movies / Reviews tagged Blu-Ray / Ghost in the Shell / movies / plastic / review by fromvinyltoplastic

Vinyl Review: Harry James. Comin' From A Good Place - Sheffield Lab 6 — Vinyl Review: Harry James. Comin’ From A Good Place – Sheffield Lab 6 – Released 1977 Vinyl surface noise: 5 (not pops and clicks) Dynamic Range: 5 Stereo Imaging: 5 Image depth/perspective: 5 Overall frequency response: 5 […]

Vinyl Review: Harry James. Comin’ From A Good Place – Sheffield Lab 6

October 30, 2017 in Reviews / Vinyl tagged Album / D2D / Direct to Disc / Harry James / LP / Sheffield Lab / Vinyl by fromvinyltoplastic

My Home Theater: Initial Acoustic Tests, Design and Acoustic Treatments — Now we have seen how the room was built, let’s review my home theater initial acoustic tests, design and acoustic treatments. Once the shell was complete and the doors installed and sealed I decided to see how the isolation performed, and what the rooms decay characteristics were like in its […]

My Home Theater: Initial Acoustic Tests, Design and Acoustic Treatments

October 29, 2017 in Acoustics / Home Theater Construction / My A/V Room tagged Acoustics / Construction by fromvinyltoplastic

Blu Ray Review: Transformers The Last Knight — Blu-ray Review: Transformers The Last Knight Paramount Pictures 2017 PG13 | 2hrs 34 mins | Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi HD | 1080P | Dolby Atmos | Dolby TrueHD 7.1 4K | 2160P | HDR10 | Dolby Vision | Dolby Atmos | Dolby TrueHD 7.1 1.90:1 Aspect Ratio Starring: […]

Blu-ray Review: Transformers The Last Knight

October 22, 2017 in Plastic - Movies / Reviews tagged Blu-Ray / movies / plastic / reviews / The Last Knight / Transformers by fromvinyltoplastic

Vinyl Review: Dave Grusin - Sheffield Lab 5 - Released 1976 — Vinyl Review: Dave Grusin Discovered Again – Sheffield Lab 5 – Released 1976 Vinyl surface noise: 3+ (not pops and clicks) Dynamic Range: 4 Stereo Imaging: 4 Image depth/perspective: 4 Overall frequency response: 4 Side One A Child Is […]

Vinyl Review: Dave Grusin Discovered Again – Sheffield Lab 5

October 19, 2017 in Reviews / Vinyl tagged Album / D2D / Dave Grusin / Direct to Disc / LP / Sheffield Lab / Vinyl by fromvinyltoplastic

My Home Theater: Installing the doors, HVAC and electrical systems — The next challenge for my home theater was installing the doors, HVAC and electrical systems. I mentioned in my second post in this series that any small holes or significant air leaks from either the inside or outside walls will significantly reduce its ability to reduce sound transmission. The […]

My Home Theater: Installing the Doors, HVAC and Electrical Systems

October 4, 2017 in Acoustics / Home Theater Construction / My A/V Room tagged Acoustics / Construction by fromvinyltoplastic