Innovation can be simply defined as introducing something “new”, whether an idea, method, technology or product. A key way to innovate is to pull together talented individuals with broad perspectives and expertise, under a common objective. [...]
There’s an old adage about self-reliance that states: “Give a man a fish, and you’ll feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he’ll go bankrupt on the East coast.” Similar to commercial [...]
Founded in 1987, Unison Research is an Italian manufacturer of exquisitely designed hifi products. Much like Christopher Columbus explored the waters of the world, Unison Research has been allowing music lovers to explore the sonic landscapes [...]
Variations on a Theme by Sennheiser You may remember something I wrote here seven years ago: “These are the single greatest headphones in the history of the world.” I was writing about the new Sennheiser [...]
During the early 1990s, a ‘Quiet Revolution’ in audio cabling occurred. Audiophiles recognized that insulating cables from Radio Frequency Interference (RFI) and Electro-Magnetic Interference (EMI) could lower the noise floor and drastically elevate the sonic performance [...]
Denmark is world renowned as a leader in design and style, particularly when it comes to furniture, fashion and toys. It is also in Denmark where LEGO - the world’s greatest toy - was born. It [...]
Founded by Torakusu Yamaha, back in the late 1800’s, Yamaha had its beginnings making reed organs. Today, Yamaha is one of the largest manufacturers of musical instruments, well recognized worldwide for its pianos, string and percussion [...]
Mundorf and Accuton are two revered audio product companies, both having their start in Cologne, Germany in 1985. In 2015, to celebrate their 30th anniversaries, the two companies collaborated on a new speaker kit – the [...]
More Canadian than Darryl Sittler sipping a double-double from Tim Hortons while handing Terry Fox an autographed #27 Maple Leaf Jersey at the Toronto City Hall, Bryston has been manufacturing consumer electronics out of Peterborough Ontario [...]
During 2016, my editor Suave Kajko at NOVO magazine let me audition a pair of Skogrand’s Tchaikovsky interconnect cables ($6,950 US) for about 8 months. Within a very short time, I concluded that these were (indeed… [...]