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2018 Holiday Gift Guide – Gifts Under $300
Happy Holidays From Suave Kajko & George de Sa! Sonos One Speaker with Alexa Voice Control, $249 USSonos is the world’s favorite wireless, multi-room speaker brand because the products are attractively priced, offer fantastic performance and [...]
Watching Movies with JVC: A Visit to JVC’s Canadian Headquarters
JVC recently announced six remarkably good home theater projectors. Three of these projectors are part of JVC's Procision series, and include the DLA-NX5 ($7,500), DLA-NX7 ($10,000) and DLA-NX9 ($23,000). The other three models are part of [...]
McIntosh Celebrates 70th Anniversary with Limited Edition Commemorative System
Our sister site NOVO High-End just posted news about the awesome McIntosh 70th Anniversary Limited Edition Commemorative System - available for pre-order starting today. Just 70 of these systems will be produced, but after this limited [...]
2018 Holiday Gift Guide – Gifts Under $100
Happy Holidays From Suave Kajko & George de Sa! Mighty Vibe Spotify Music Player $86 US The Mighty Vibe is the world’s first standalone Spotify music player designed for the streaming generation. This tiny player lets [...]
NOVO November/December 2018 Digital Issue
Check out the latest issue of the NOVO Magazine! Features inside this issue: When Black Mirror Comes Alive: Looking at Black Mirror Technology That Already Exists Meet the Maker: Kirmuss Audio NOVO’s 2018 Holiday Gift Guide [...]
Gold Note PH-10 Phono-Stage and Gold Note PSU-10 A/C Power Supply Review
Hear what you've been missing from your vinyl playback with this superbly good sounding Gold Note PH-10 Phono-stage and matching PSU-10 power supply. Our sister publication just published a review of these two components by Douglas [...]
Product News: McIntosh XRT1.1K Loudspeaker
McIntosh has just revealed the XRT1.1K loudspeaker, a sibling to the company's larger-than-life XRT2.1K loudspeaker. Featuring a 1,200 Watt power rating, the full range XRT1.1K is an exceptional speaker in its own right. With its more [...]
Meet Refractor and NOVO High-End – A Message From the Publisher
Audio has always been my first love, and as many of you know, I've been successfully publishing audio magazines for over 15 years. TAVES taught me a lot about the business. It was a show meant [...]
Toronto Audio Fest 2018 – Part 3
Welcome to part 3 of our Toronto Audio Fest 2018 coverage. If you've missed the previous parts, you can read them here: Part 1 and Part 2. Yamaha Yamaha was set up in one of the [...]
Product News: Thorens TD 201 and TD202 Turntables
Erikson Consumer, Canadian distributor for Thorens has just revealed two new turntables - just in time for the holidays - the Thorens TD 201 and TD 202. The new TD 201 and TD202 turntables are ideal [...]
Audio Excellence to Host McIntosh and Sonus faber Event – Saturday, November 3 in Markham, Ontario
Audio Excellence, one of the top high-end audio retailers in the Toronto area, will be hosting manufacturer events inside their Markham store every Saturday between Nov. 3rd and Dec. 1st (from noon until 5pm). This Saturday, [...]
Toronto Audio Fest 2018 – Part 2
Charles Kirmuss of Kirmuss Audio proudly demonstrates how well his Ultrasonic Vinyl Restoration System works at the show. Welcome to part 2 of our Toronto Audio Fest 2018 coverage. In this part, we start off with [...]
The Journey to Higher Quality Audio With Nordost Leif Cables: Part 3 of 3
Following the Ideal Path to Upgrading Cables. Part 3 of 3: USB Interconnects and Speaker Cables I recently watched English indie band ALT-J perform at Echo Beach in Toronto and what an incredible sonic and visual [...]
Toronto Audio Fest 2018 – Part 1
Kevro International hosted a fabulous sounding Monitor Audio / Roksan Audio system inside their room. The Toronto Audio Fest ran from Oct. 21 to Oct. 23 this year at the Westin Airport Hotel near the Pearson [...]
Product News: exaSound Intros New DACs and Network Audio Players / Servers
Canadian manufacturer exaSound has just introduced three new high-end audio products: a DAC/Network Audio Server, an MQA DAC and a Network Audio Player / Server. Here are the details about each. PlayPoint DM Dual-Mono D/A Converter [...]
1877-Phono Zavfino Silver Dart Interconnects and Speaker Cables Review
When thinking about bargains, the statement “hell hath no fury like a woman who misses a 50% off designer shoe sale” readily springs to mind. And just like disobedient dogs who so instinctively enjoy chewing on [...]
Meet the Maker: An Interview with Charles Kirmuss of Kirmuss Audio
Charles Kirmuss and Michael Fremer from Stereophile, standing in front of Michael's 30,000+ record collection. Kirmuss Audio has been making some big waves in the audio world over the last several months, since the introduction of [...]
Audeze LCD-2 Classic Headphones Review
During a phone interview with Evan Grimm, Audeze’s Head of Product Training, he admitted that when they’d released their new “Fazor” headphone waveguide technology in 2013, they’d expected near universal praise for the sound. Such was [...]
