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Marantz Cinema Series, AV 10 & AMP 10 – Preview All Image Credit: Marantz *UPDATED: 3/25/2023* – DIRAC Live now available, see end of post. Here is my unofficial, now official, information on the upcoming Marantz Cinema series and flagship separates releases. The official press release day was 9/26/2022. Marantz, […]

Marantz Cinema Series, AV 10 & AMP 10 – Preview

September 9, 2022 in Audio / Equipment / News tagged AMP10 / AV10 / Cinema / Cinema 40 / Cinema 50 / Cinema 60 / Cinema 70s / Marantz / Sound United / Stereo 70s by fromvinyltoplastic

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

Audyssey MultEQ-X for Denon and Marantz AVRs Sound United (Denon & Marantz) have announced their support for a new, advanced, Audyssey PC software application. The new software, MultEQ-X, gives users additional and expanded control and flexibility to calibrate existing and new home AVR’s, together with early access to new Audyssey […]

Audyssey MultEQ-X for Denon and Marantz AVRs

December 16, 2021 in Audio / Equipment / News tagged Audyssey / Denon / Marantz / Microsoft / MultEQ-X / PC / Sound United / Windows by fromvinyltoplastic

Denon and Marantz AV Receivers HDMI 2.1 Bug Permanently Fixed It’s been a while coming, but wait no longer, you can now go out and buy a Denon or Marantz AV Receiver with the full confidence that it will not have the reported 4K 120Hz HDMI bug issue. Forbes and […]

Denon and Marantz AV Receivers HDMI 2.1 Bug Permanently Fixed

August 16, 2021 in Equipment / News tagged Denon / Fix / HDMI 2.1 bug / HDMI 2.1 bug fix / Marantz / Sound United by fromvinyltoplastic

Denon & Marantz Solve HDMI 2.1 Bug With SPK618 With the release in 2020 of Denon’s and Marantz’s next generation of HDMI 2.1 receivers came a number of unexpected headaches. It turned out that they did not support the promised pass through of 8K signals or 4K/120Hz graphics from the […]

Denon & Marantz Solve HDMI 2.1 Bug With SPK618

April 27, 2021 in Equipment / News tagged Denon / HDMI 2.1 bug fix / HDMI bug / Marantz / Sound United / SPK618 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