If you consider yourself an audio enthusiast than chances are that you’re already familiar with French speaker maker Focal (previously known as Focal JMlab). During the last few years I’ve had the chance to listen to [...]

Living in a condo in downtown Toronto, I am reminded every day of the many things we pass up in the name of convenience and location. A lawn, a deck, a BBQ, a backyard to throw [...]

Montreal-based Dimexs is one of Canada's premier importers of audio brands from around the world. The company is responsible for the Canadian distribution of brands including Naim, PS Audio, Nagra, Avid, Verity Audio, Atoll and Acoustic [...]

Ahh, there's nothing like a fresh speaker scent. That's exactly how I felt when I opened the Axiom Audio Epic Midi 125 home theatre speaker system. Perhaps it's because the speakers were manufactured probably only a [...]

If you don't want to be tempted by one of the greatest audiophile bargains I have ever encountered, stop reading now. Model-1, the first speaker from Montreal's Totem Acoustic made an awfully big impression, especially for [...]

You could say that Xindak is a company of many talents. For more than 20 years this Chinese company has been in the business of manufacturing amplifiers, integrated amplifiers, CD players, DACs, speakers, cables, power conditioners [...]

As speakers get more expensive, they generally get bigger, go louder and deeper and often get easier to drive. Well here's a speaker that bucks the trend. The $15,395 X1 and its bigger brother the X2 [...]

While perusing products at the 2008 Festival Son et Image this past April in Montreal, I stumbled across a number of products that captured my attention. One of these products was a set of 5.1-channel speakers [...]

Do you remember the days when a personal computer could only beep and produce a few single tones? The computer's musical abilities have come a long way in the past 15 years. The development of sophisticated [...]

Our first encounter with Canadian-based Sinclair Audio was more than two years ago when the company asked us to review their very first product offering, the Brighton Series speakers. We enjoyed the speakers enough that we [...]

High fidelity stereo performance from an affordable and compact system? Many audiophiles would turn up their noses. The average person would call it a bluff. Most people assume that a high fidelity stereo experience requires big, [...]