LATEST CONSUMER ELECTRONICS NEWS
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 [...]
Bel Canto FM1 Tuner
A famous lyric goes, “video killed the radio star”…but a couple decades out and I’m not quite sure that’s happened. Personally, I still love to listen to the radio, so new products in this space still [...]
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 [...]
Procella Audio P8 THX certified Loudspeakers
Procella Audio has just recently enhanced the performance of its THX P8 loudspeaker. The new P8 uses a new 1.5 inch neodymium compression driver and a new 8 inch woofer driver. These enhancements allow the P8 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 novo.press/ on any mobile device, you will automatically be forwarded to the mobile version of the [...]
PURE i-20, iPhone/iPod Dock
PURE just recently introduced is their next generation i-20 digital iPod dock. This dock sets itself apart from the common folk, as it taps directly into the raw digital audio stream of your iPhone/iPod/iTouch. [...]
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 [...]
Electrocompaniet PD-1 Balanced DAC
Lately all I seem to be hearing is DAC, DAC, DAC…kinda sounds like a duck. It’s just where the industry is going to meet consumer demands data streaming products. That said, it’s nice to see some [...]
Anthem MRX 500 AV Receiver Review
Anthem has long been considered as the “dream brand” by many home theatre buffs. Its components are the equivalent of exotic cars in the home theatre universe, and for a very good reason - Anthem produces [...]
Studio Electric Monitor
At one time or another, we all long for things great from the past. This sometimes takes the route of retro styling. Studio Electric is a company that seems to have retro in mind when it [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
V-MODA Crossfade LP Headphones – Customs Program
These days fashion expressions seem to be fully integrated with new products and so it goes with V-MODA’s new Crossfade Customs personalization option for its Crossfade LP headphones. It’s fun to play dress-up! The V-MODA Customs [...]
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 [...]
Cavalli Audio – Liquid Fire Headphone Amplifier
A quick peek at Wikipedia gives you the definition of liquid fire as: an ancient Greek hot oil / fire weapon; an ancient Chinese petroleum weapon; Napalm; an eight piece rock band from St Joseph Missouri [...]