Recommended Turntable Accessories
What’s a poor audiophile to do? You’ve saved your hard earned money for a beautiful new turntable and are spending your beer money on albums at every opportunity, but you’re not sure it’s all set up [...]
The Beatles Remastered – The New CD Collection
The Beatles CDs first appeared in 1987 in disappointing sound, vastly inferior to the original vinyl pressings from the 60's. That's what we've been stuck with for over 20 years. Until now that is. Finally a [...]
Dolby Pro Logic IIz and Audyssey DSX Technologies Explained and Reviewed
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 [...]
Getting High Resolution Audio From a Blu-ray Player
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 [...]
iPod Docking Ideas!
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 [...]
Multi-room Sound System Options
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 [...]
Dolby Plus, Dolby TrueHD, DTS-HD and DTS-HD Master Audio: Next Generation Audio
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 [...]
Two-channel Solid State Music Systems Group Test (Cambridge Audio, NAD, ARCAM and more)
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 [...]
The Home Theatre Experience: An Introduction
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 [...]
DTS Surround Music
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 [...]