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dCS Varese Music System – First Look All Image Credit: DCS dCS of Cambridge, UK. manufacture very high-end bespoke audiophile equipment, with a matching price tag. The dCS Varèse Music System is this British HiFi brand’s most advanced flagship music system to date arriving with a sleek and minimalistic form. […]

dCS Varese Music System – First Look

August 26, 2024 in Audio / Equipment / News tagged dCS / Streaming / Streaming DAC / Varese / Wireless Music System by fromvinyltoplastic

Roon And KKBOX Announce Partnership Image Credit: KKBOX & Roon Roon has announced its support for KKBOX, Asia’s premier music streaming service that is now Roon’s first music streaming service partner in Asia. The two powers have joined forces to integrate music content with lossless sound quality and support cross-device […]

Roon And KKBOX Announce Partnership

July 25, 2023 in Audio / News tagged KKBOX / Roon / Services / Streaming by fromvinyltoplastic

Bluesound – New Powernode Edge Streaming Amp All Image Credit: Bluesound Bluesound has expanded their range of hi-res wireless audio players, with the Bluesound POWERNODE EDGE. It is a single zone, wireless music streaming amplifier..…an entry-level “just add speakers” device. Combining streaming sources, control, and amplification all in one sleek […]

Bluesound – New Powernode Edge Streaming Amp

September 7, 2022 in Audio / Equipment / News tagged Bluesound / POWERNODE EDGE / Streaming / Streaming Amplifier by fromvinyltoplastic

Musical Fidelity MX-STREAM – First Look All Image Credit: Musical Fidelity The MX-STREAM is a new universal streamer from Musical Fidelity and is their first stand-alone model. It is a network bridge, or transport, that combines local and internet based streaming features and is capable of transmitting any online or […]

Musical Fidelity MX-STREAM – First Look

July 7, 2022 in Equipment / News tagged Bluetooth / Musical Fidelity / MX-Stream / Streaming / Wi-Fi by fromvinyltoplastic

20 Sure Fire Hit Stocking Stuffers For Vinyl Lovers — Christmas & Holiday Gifts For HT & Vinyl Lovers This post contains affiliate links. Please see my full disclosure here. After the less than joyful holiday season in 2020, this year hopefully will be more normal with a well earned happy time for friends and families to get together and celebrate the […]

Christmas & Holiday Gifts For HT & Vinyl Lovers

December 1, 2021 in Audio / Equipment / News / Vinyl tagged 1080P / 2021 / 4K / Audiophile / Christmas / Gifts / Holiday / HT / LED Projector / Mini Projector / Soundbar / Streaming / Subwoofer / Vinyl by fromvinyltoplastic

Spotify Hi-Fi – An Oxymoron? Spotify has officially announced its lossless Hi-Fi streaming tier as a Premium add-on to its compressed Ogg Vorbis service. Considering the competition for HQ audio services I was a little surprised when they announced that this new premium service is to only provide “lossless CD-quality […]

Spotify Hi-Fi – An Oxymoron?

February 25, 2021 in Audio / News tagged Hi-Fi / Spotify / Streaming by fromvinyltoplastic

Physical Media Takes Another Hit! — Physical Media Takes Another Hit! The Rumor Mill It is strongly rumored by Bill Hunt, the Editor in Chief of The Digital Bits that Disney is going to be restricting the release of their existing live action catalog and that of the recently purchased 20th Century Fox Film company, to 4K only […]

Physical Media Takes Another Hit!

August 12, 2020 in News / Plastic tagged 4K / Death of Physical Media / Disney+ / Physical Media / Streaming / Ultra HD / Walt Disney / Warner Media by fromvinyltoplastic

Qobuz Still In Beta - See Them at Florida Audio Expo — Qobuz Still In Beta – See Them at Florida Audio Expo Qobuz and Florida Expo Qobuz, one of this shows sponsors, and its first show in the America, will be announced at the Audio Expo as the first certified Hi-Res streaming and download service. The show is to be held […]

Qobuz Still In Beta – See Them at Florida Audio Expo

February 4, 2019 in News tagged Florida / Florida Audio Expo / Qobuz / Streaming by fromvinyltoplastic

Qobuz Is Coming Soon-Streaming On Steroids — Qobuz Is Coming Soon-Streaming On Steroids Coming to your inbox soon. This French based music streaming service is active in 11 European countries and Coming to America this fall. Will this French streaming service be the death knell for Tidal and MQA? Arriving this fall and armed with over two […]

Qobuz Is Coming Soon-Streaming On Steroids

September 11, 2018 in Audio / News tagged Hi-Res Audio / Qobuz / Streaming 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