CANADA HiFi Magazine

JVC NX-BX3 iPod Speaker Dock / Stand

JVC just recently announced their new NX-BX3 integrated iPod speaker dock and stand. What’s rather unique about this new iPod speaker dock is that it’s been designed to integrate into a living space as a useable bedside nightstand, side table, or even a TV stand. The glass top stand has the capability to support… Continue Reading

Musical Fidelity Upsampling Digital-Analog Converter V-DAC II Review

As a civil design engineer, many years of formal training and work experience have conditioned me to look past the flashy facades and to focus on the important parts of the building like the foundation and superstructure. Not surprisingly, I also use this sort of logic when it comes to influencing my choices in… Continue Reading

Panasonic VIERA TC-P55VT30 55-inch Plasma TV Review

Much of the discussion about any flat panel television today is its ability to display true black, like the now historical CRT. There seems to be a race to the “bottom” between all technologies and a desire to move away from the milky-white black levels we’ve seen on most consumer flat panel displays since… Continue Reading

Lector Audio Digicode S-192 DAC

Lector Audio has just introduced a new DAC product – their new Digicode S-192. The Digicode S-192 is an async multi-input 24/192 DAC with USB. Based on Lector’s R2R high-resolution DAC, the analog output circuits are designed around the miniwatt vacuum tube type. Digital signals of up to 24-bit/192kHz are accepted on all inputs.… Continue Reading

PlayStation Vita Comes Out Tomorrow

Avid gamers will finally be able to get their hands on the new PlayStation Vita portable gaming system tomorrow!

The PS Vita incorporates a 5-inch multi-touch organic light emitting diode (OLED) display and a unique multi-touch pad on the rear. Together with the front touch screen and the rear touch pad, the Vita offers… Continue Reading

Bob Carver’s Amazing Line Source (ALS) Speaker

Bob Carver, LLC has just announced a radically new Amazing Line Source (ALS) Speaker to be debuted at the Axpona Trade Show in Florida, this March.

The new ALS is claimed to present a huge and majestic soundstage that extends well back and much wider than the speakers themselves.

A line source speaker… Continue Reading

Arcam FMJ D33 SuperDAC

Arcam will be officially releasing their new FMJ D33 SuperDAC at the Bristol Show in the UK, late February. The new DAC is Arcam’s highest performing DAC to date.

Arcam believes the performance of the D33 SuperDAC sets a new benchmark, even against much more expensive competitor products.

The D33 uses the latest high-end… Continue Reading

Sharp TV Line-up for 2012

At the 2012 CES, Sharp introduced nearly 20 new TV models with screen sizes of 60-inches and up, many featuring 3D in 120Hz or 240Hz panel options. The AQUOS Quattron models will feature the new Quad Pixel Plus II technology. Now the new models are about to start hitting the store shelves.

80-inch LC-80LE844U… Continue Reading

Antelope Audio Zodiac DAC

Antelope Audio’s Zodiac D/A converters are now compatible with iPad, allowing music lovers to enjoy pristine audio of up to 384 kHz, played and controlled from their iPad through the Zodiac DAC.

It is easy to connect and operate. Simply plug an Apple Camera Connection Kit jack into the iPad and then plug in… Continue Reading

Grace Digital Audio Mondo Wi-Fi Music Player

Grace Digital Audio has just announced the new Mondo Wi-Fi Music Player. With a large LCD display, Mondo brings an array of vibrant colours to your music experience. Extremely portable and packed with the best internet content available, Mondo provides music lovers with the music they want, where they want it. Mondo is available… Continue Reading

Trends Audio CQ-500 Audiophile Speaker Cable

Trends Audio has just introduced their new CQ-500 Audiophile Speaker Cable. This new cable product is constructed with Single Crystallized Copper (OCC) conductor material. OCC is a special type of high purity Oxygen Free Copper (OFC) in which the whole copper rope is a composite of a single copper crystal. Eliminating the boundary between… Continue Reading

Chordette Index Network Music Streamer & Internet Radio

Chord Electronics has just introduced its first-ever music streamer and internet radio, named the Chordette Index. The new network music streamer & internet radio device will be shown at the upcoming Bristol Sound & Vision Show in the U.K.

The Index can locate music on a NAS drive, networked computer or USB connected thumb… Continue Reading

New B&W Mini Theatre Systems

Bowers & Wilkins (B&W), the well renowned British loudspeaker company, has just updated its M-1 ultra compact loudspeaker, the speaker that pairs with their new PV1D subwoofer or ASW608 subwoofer in B&W’s new Mini Theater systems.

The new M-1 is designed to serve as a left, right, center and/or surround channel speaker and is… Continue Reading

CBC Music – A New, Free Canadian Digital Music Service

Yesterday CBC launched CBC Music and the CBC Music App – a free new digital music service designed to connect Canadians to the music they love. With a choice of 40 different web radio stations, 14 distinct genre-based communities, and music from nearly 1,000 major and independent music companies, CBC Music provides listeners with… Continue Reading

Onkyo 2012 Entry-level Home Theater Systems

Onkyo has just introduced two new packaged home theater systems for the first round of its 2012 model introductions. Each system combines an AV receiver with a matched set of speakers to take the guesswork out of purchasing an entry-level surround sound system.

Four HDMI inputs on both receivers facilitate Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD… Continue Reading

Onkyo 2012 Entry-level AV Receivers

Onkyo has just announced four new entry-level AV receivers, including three with network capability, including one with THX certification. The line includes the world’s first AV receivers to employ Silicon Image’s InstaPrevue and Mobile High-Definition Link (MHL) technologies. Furthermore, the three network capable models are the world’s first AVRs to include music ‘cloud server’… Continue Reading

TAD-E1 “Evolution Series” Loudspeaker

Technical Audio Devices Laboratories (TAD) has announced the realease of their new TAD-E1 (Evolution One) floor standing loudspeaker. The TAD-E1 has been designed and engineered entirley in-house by Director of Engineering Andrew Jones and an international team of audio engineers, artists and craftsmen.

As the first-ever loudspeaker in the Evolution Series, the TAD-E1 joins… Continue Reading

Apple iPad 3 New Feature Speculations Plus Smaller New Model?

According to analysts the Apple iPad 3 will be released in early March and although the company is as secretive as always about the details of the new tablet, analysts expect the new tablet to offer a new higher-resolution screen called the retina display (among other new features). The new 9.7 inch display is… Continue Reading

Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace in 3D In Movie Theaters Today!

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We don’t normally post about movies released in the theater on this blog but then again it’s not every day that a movie of this caliber comes out. Check out the video above!

For more info, please visit www.starwars.com.

Lilyhammer Original Series on Netflix

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Earlier this week, Netflix, the online video streaming provider, announced the premiere of its first original series called Lilyhammer. The new series stars The Sopranos mainstay and E Street Band guitarist Steven Van Zandt, and is available through the Netflix service in the USA, Canada… Continue Reading