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System Audio Aura 1 Bookshelf Loudspeaker Review
System Audio (SA) is a company that has been manufacturing loudspeakers for a few decades. The company was founded in 1984 by a musician Ole Witthøft, who is currently SA’s leader of product research and development. [...]
Focal Spirit One Headphones Review
Focal is a consumer and professional audio product company. It is the largest loudspeaker company in France, producing both finished loudspeakers as well as manufacturing loudspeaker drivers. The company has been in operation since 1979. In [...]
Chord Electronics Chordette QuteHD DAC Review
England’s Chord Electronics is one of those few firms that travels its own path, completely ignoring conventional wisdom. Among its many innovations are high frequency switching power supplies, MOSFET transistors made exclusively for Chord Electronics by [...]
Building an Affordable Multi-room Audio System | Sonos Review
Have you ever played air guitar to Guns’n’Roses’ “Sweet Child of Mine”? Or perhaps air drummed Phil Collins’ “In the Air Tonight” like that infamous Cadbury gorilla? Better still, maybe you’ve used the shampoo bottle in [...]
Bryston BHA-1 Headphone Amplifier Review
Here’s a very ambitious new product from Peterborough’s Bryston Limited. It’s a fair assumption that Bryston knows a thing or two about amplifiers. For most of its existence Bryston has majored in amps of all kinds [...]
Samsung UN55ES8000F 55-inch 3D LED TV Review
It was in the Aug/Sept 2012 issue of CANADA HiFi that I reviewed Samsung’s excellent flagship PN64E8000 plasma television. Equipped with many of the latest user technologies and delivering one of the finest images available, Samsung’s [...]
MK Sound MK150THX 5.1 Speaker System
Have you ever wondered about what kind of audio systems professional studios use for engineering movie soundtracks? MK Sound has long been a popular choice for professional studios and over the years has made its way [...]
Monitor Audio Gold GX 5.1 Speaker System Review
If you have an exceptional memory, you might recall reading about the Monitor Audio Gold GX series speakers in these pages before. I reviewed the GX200 floor standing loudspeakers ($4,995/pair) from this series back in the [...]
ModWright Instruments KWA 100SE Amplifier and LS 100 Tube Preamplifier
Earlier this year, in the April/May 2012 issue of CANADA HiFi, Phil Gold reviewed the ModWright Instruments KWA 150 Signature Edition Amplifier. He was so impressed by this amplifier that it ended up finding a permanent [...]
B&W C5 In-ear Headphones Review
Bowers & Wilkins (B&W) is an audio product company that is based in its home town of Worthing, West Sussex, England and is part of the B&W Group. The B&W Group owns B&W and Classé Audio, [...]
Totem Element Ember Compact Speakers Review
I have already reported on the phenomenal Totem Fire bookshelf speaker ($5,995) in the pages of CANADA HiFi. When I reviewed it last year it sat as the smallest offering in the Element range which extends [...]
Spin-Clean Record Washer MK II Review
Records and LPs are making a strong comeback in the music world and that’s no lie. I have personally re-introduced myself to playing records recently, thanks to the purchase of the fantastic sounding Rega RP3 turntable. [...]