The benefits of watching a movie or listening to music in a 5.1-channel home theatre are undeniable. A well mixed movie soundtrack can make you feel like you're part of the on-screen action. A well mixed [...]
Now that the high definition disc format war has come to a close, the number of Blu-ray players in consumer homes' is steadily climbing. The benefits that a 1080p Blu-ray picture can bring to our television [...]
Think that every iPod docking system is pretty much the same? Not so my friend. There are more models of iPod docking systems than coffee flavours at Starbucks - tons more infact! What separates one docking [...]
It used to be that networks and the Internet were the lingo of nerds in computer labs. These days, terms like downloading and WiFi have become part of our daily vocabulary. Maybe I hang out in [...]
These are exciting times for home theatre enthusiasts. The goal of replicating the movie theatre experience in our own homes is becoming increasingly possible. Unfortunately competing standards and formats are making it difficult for consumers to [...]
It's truly remarkable just how different the same CD album can sound on different two-channel music systems. Every amplifier and every CD player has their own sound characteristics and qualities. Sometimes these characteristics are subtle and [...]
Home theatre has come a long way since the days of hooking up a Dolby Surround processor to your stereo receiver and HiFi VCR. Maybe you were such an enthusiast in the late 80s that you [...]
It seems that the record label industry has gone "format-happy". Perhaps "format-crazy" is a more appropriate term. The introduction of all of the new audio formats has left us at Toronto HiFi scratching our heads. Most [...]
With the introduction of the MP3 file format in the mid 90s the music industry was turned on its head. MP3 refers to MPEG 1 Audio Layer 3. It is an audio encoding and compression format [...]
Digital technology has the ability to make good products better. It gives us the opportunity to develop previously unthinkable devices and reinvent analog products as digital ones of smaller size that have offer increased functionality and [...]