Bryston BDP-1 Digital Player and BDA-1 DAC

The ways in which we enjoy music have changed rapidly during the last few years.  The advent of the mp3 file format and portable digital music players revolutionized our ability to purchase and play music.  Adding a new album to your music collection today is as easy as a few taps of an iPhone… Continue Reading

Reev Designs Aatma Loudspeakers Review

As a publisher of a Canadian audio video magazine I’m always delighted to hear of a new Canadian manufacturer – especially one that presents itself as well as Reev Designs.  My first encounter with Reev Designs, which took place at the first Toronto Audio Video Entertainment Show (TAVES) at the end of September 2011,… Continue Reading

Monitor Audio Gold GX200 Speakers Review

My first encounter with the Monitor Audio Gold GX series speakers was at the Salon Son & Image, which took place earlier this year in Montreal.  It was their good looks that first attracted me, but it was the engaging sound presentation that inspired me to bring these speakers in for review.  The model demonstrated… Continue Reading

The Avengers – Watch the Official Trailer After the Jump!

One of my favourite childhood comic books has finally come to life!  The official Avengers movie trailer has just been released online and it kicks butt.  And to make things even better the soundtrack for the trailer is courtesy of Nine Inch Nails – another favourite of mine.  It sent chills through me the first… Continue Reading

Paradigm Reference MilleniaOne 5.0 Speakers and MilleniaSub Subwoofer Review

Let’s face it – most music lovers and movie buffs would like to own a set of full size speakers because they realize the benefits that large speaker enclosures bring to the performance table.  If you’re anything like me, you’d be quick to place full size speakers in every room in your house.  But… Continue Reading

2011 Salon Son & Image, Montreal, Coverage

The twenty fourth edition of Salon Son & Image (www.salonsonimage.com) took place at the end of March during an unexpectedly warm weekend in Montreal, Quebec. As last year, the event was held at the Hilton Bonaventure hotel in the heart of downtown Montreal. This annual event provides a fantastic opportunity for manufacturers, distributors,… Continue Reading

Sinclair Audio Brighton Series

New Sony AV Receivers

Sony has just revealed a trio of entry level, 3D capable AV receivers which will go on sale this spring. The new models include the STR-DN1020, the STR-DH720 and the STR-DH520 7.1.
The flagship STR-DN1020 receiver is a gateway to streaming music with access to Internet audio services including vTuner when connected to… Continue Reading

Apple Officially Announces iPad 2

Steve Jobs, who has been on medical leave since the end of January, enthusiastically hit the stage yesterday in San Francisco to reveal the details of the second generation iPad. Starting at $499 US, the iPad 2 will be thinner than the iPhone 4, offers double the power of the first iPad and comes… Continue Reading

Anthem Ships MRX 300 AV Receiver and Releases 3D Update For All MRX Models

Anthem has just announced that its most affordable AV receiver, the MRX 300, priced at $1,099 CAD is now shipping.  This receiver is joining the highly regarded MRX 500 and 700 models – the reviews of these are just beginning to trickle out.  In fact, we just posted our own MRX 500 review which… Continue Reading

Panasonic Announces 2011 TV and Blu-ray Players

This past January, Panasonic revealed its 2011 line-up of product at the CES.  Yesterday during an event in New York, the company revealed the suggested US pricing of all of these products. Most of the TVs in this year’s line-up will offer a more advanced VieraConnect (connected TV) feature.  At launch time some 30… Continue Reading

CANADA HiFi “App” On Your Smartphone!

The CANADA HiFi website can now be accessed on most smartphones including the iPhone and the Blackberry. When you access www.canadahifi.com on any mobile device, you will automatically be forwarded to the mobile version of the website which is suitably scaled to fit the screen of the device.
Accessing our website on an… Continue Reading

Highlights From the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show

The Consumer Electronics Show is over for another year and if the products demonstrated are any indication, the upcoming year will be a great one for home theatre fans. While in the past, it took a few years for technology to trickle down into consumers’ living rooms, the lag from prototype to booth demonstration… Continue Reading

Anthem MRX 500 AV Receiver Review

   From a technical standpoint, the most exciting feature of the new MRX receivers is the ARC system, which is the same system that’s found in Anthem’s high-end components like the AVM 50v/D2v AV processors.  The key difference is that the AV processors have twice the processing power of the MRX receivers… Continue Reading

Blessed Cables OMH-1 Speaker Cable

Blessed Cables is a brand new Canadian audio cable manufacturer. Its first product is the OMH-1 speaker cable available at an introductory price of $325 for a 6-foot pair. Of course other cable lengths are available.
Each Blessed cable is hand made in Canada and uses wire that is a perfectly balanced high… Continue Reading

Reference 3A MM de Capo i Speakers

Now here’s a speaker whose origins date back to the 1980s but which benefits from dozens of design improvements over the years to keep it at the leading edge of bookshelf designs. That type of longevity is given to very few audio components so there must be something special going on here, right? French… Continue Reading

Fujitsu Launches STYLISTIC Q550 Tablet

News about Tablets are continue to trickle out from the industry and the latest of these is from Fujitsu.  The company’s STYLISTIC Q550 is said to be an executive class slate PC designed for the high-security requirements of mobile enterprise computing.  It should be available worldwide starting in April 2011. The Fujitsu STYLISTIC Q550… Continue Reading

Apple To Launch New iPad On March 2nd

Apple is expected to launch its second generation iPad on March 2, contrary to speculation of a possible delay. The speculation over the timing of the new iPad comes from reports that this could be because of Steve Jobs’ faltering health combined with the fact that component makers had to change their manufacturing processes… Continue Reading

Naim Audio UnitiQute All-in-one Player and UnitiServe Hard Disk Player / Server

Digital convergence is really hitting its stride. This year I’ve come to know three products that bring it all together in exemplary fashion. First is the iPhone 4, which marries phone, email, GPS, internet, games and a whole lot more into a slender elegant package that’s a delight to use. Second, is the Sync… Continue Reading

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