A Series By Steve Graham As anyone who follows the Vinyl Café on CBC will know, host Stuart McLean is undergoing cancer treatment. All the […]
My Audio Life – Part 1 of a new series
By Steve Graham It is a fact of life that enthusiast magazines and web sites live and die on equipment reviews. Audio is no different. […]
HD Vinyl, anyone?
An interesting story appeared two days ago, that got my juices flowing. Digital Music News received an ‘exclusive’ about a new patent application for “High […]
A Store is Born. Ash Forest Hi-Fi of Kingston, Ontario rises up
When Kingston, Ontario (pop. 130,000) lost its only downtown brick-and-mortar hifi shop, Just HiFi, a few years ago, I wondered if someone would be brave […]
The Slow Audio Movement
by Noam Bronstein “So many toys – so little unstructured time.” ― Carl Honoré, In Praise of Slowness Lately my wife and I have been […]
TAVES 2015 Show Report
by Noam Bronstein Another TAVES already? The year since the last Toronto show sure flew by. This year, the show moved uptown – way up to […]
A Dozen Great Gift Ideas for Your Favourite Audiophile
It’s that time of year again: yup, time to leave your computer screen conspicuously on, displaying that desired “goodie” you’ve been thinking about….and […]
The Most Pristine Folk Recording You’ve Ever Heard (free download from Chesky)
Some of us received this Chesky Records email blast a few days ago, promoting a new record called From The Mountaintop, by folk ensemble The New […]
Vinyl: Quality, Quantity, and Trouble in Paradise
Blame it on those Portland hipsters. With every available vinyl press in the world running full out, the pressing plants are just not keeping up […]
Radian Crossover Mods, Part II: From the M-Cap MKP to Mundorf’s ‘EVO’ Silver/Gold/Oil
Lately I’ve come to see a certain parallel between the speaker crossover and an automotive powertrain: it’s that, without a gifted tuner at your disposal, there’s often […]