Subscribe to our mailing list to hear about new products, events and sales. Your e-mail: subscribe unsubscribe New audio discussion forum called SeriousAudioTalk.com! We are proud to announce a new audio discussion forum called SeriousAudioTalk.com. The name says it all. We have been working on this to fill a void on the Internet for a quality audio chat room. Expert moderators will answer your questions and make sure there is a minimum of preaching, advertising and harassing which is so common on most forums. As well, each user will have a "Karma" rating which other users can raise or lower depending on how thoughtful their posts are. It's all about making a higher quality discussion forum so you can get the most from your system! We hope you will find some like-minded audiophiles to chat with and look forward to seeing you on the site. Now carrying Beyerdynamic Headphones! Founded in 1924 in Germany, Beyerdynamic is one of the world's premiere headphone manufacturers. Due to decades of experience and a commitment to continuous research and innovative developments, their headphones enjoy a peerless reputation throughout the world in both consumer and professional markets. Unlike most other companies, Beyerdynamic products are designed and handcrafted in Germany with a particular passion and attention to detail that distinguishes German manufacture throughout the world. Class-leading sound, comfort and durability are the hallmarks of this great headphone company. Harbeth releases the new P3ESR speakers! The new P3ESR features Harbeth's exclusive RADIAL driver material which provides unparalleled accuracy and detail. The improvement over the already class-leading HL-P3-ES2 is shocking. Alan Shaw has managed to maintain the same perfect tonal balance but increase texture, detail and naturality to an astonishing degree, no doubt a result of the switch to RADIAL technology. We are confident to say that for it's size, the P3ESR has no equal. Available in 4 finishes: Cherry, Black Ash, Maple and Rosewood. Now Carrying Castle Speakers! Castle has worked hard since 1973 to earn the reputation as one of the UK's finest consumer loudspeaker brands. Priced in the affordable range, Castle is rare in that they not only manufacture the drive units and electronic components found in their speakers but also the beautifully hand crafted real wood veneered cabinets used to enclose them. The combination of sound, price and finish are unique in today's market place. We are expecially excited about the Knight 1 ($399) and Knight 5 ($1299) both of which offer a new level of value at their price points. Now Carrying Heed Audio! Heed is a relatively new company which is continuing the vision started by certain "flat-earthers" of the 80s who have since moved more mainstream. The Heed sound is of "musical integrity" first and foremost with supreme attention paid to pacing, rhythm and timing (PRaT). Minimalist, low powered designs are upgradeable with outboard power supplies. Heed products look like audio components and don't pretend to be lifestyle accoutrements. They exist to make music happen, pure and simple. We think many dissillusioned flat-earthers will be pleasantly shocked at the kind of sound that is again available at such affordable prices. Now Carrying Perreaux Electronics! We are pleased to bring back a name familiar to many Canadian audiophiles-- Perreaux. Hailing from New Zealand, Perreaux has a long history of making some of the finest solid state amplifiers on the planet. Their reputation for performance is equalled by unrivaled build quality. The story from Perreaux users of 20 and 30 years is of unanimous loyalty. The new generation of Perreaux products showcases what continuous research can bring to amplifier design. The result is effortless power with none of the traditional drawbacks of large amplifiers, user friendly features and a minimalist style to suit even the fussiest taste. Perreaux--for those who don't like to compromise. Now Carrying Wadia 170 iTransport iPod Dock! The 170 iTransport ($489) converts your iPod into an audiophile music server. Through special licensing with Apple, the iTransport delivers bit-perfect digital audio via a coaxial S/PDIF output so you can match it with a DAC such as the Benchmark or Audio Research DAC7. The limitation is only on what kind of DAC you pair with it. With the iTransport as the source and a DAC your iPod can rival the top performing digital source components available regardless of price. Additional functionality includes standard analog outputs (which pass the internal analog signal of the iPod) for those just getting started, video output and remote control. Now Carrying REL Subwoofers! REL Acoustics Ltd of Great Britain designs and manufactures high quality, award-winning sub-bass systems for use in two-channel and multi-channel music and multi-channel home theatre systems. A properly designed sub-bass system will not only reproduce low frequency movie effects with accuracy, it will also augment the output of conventional stereo and surround loudspeakers with very low frequency bass that is felt rather than heard. The result is greater fidelity. REL Acoustics only builds sub-bass systems. For over ten years, the evolving range of REL products has delighted audiophiles and cinephiles around the world, and received universal critical acclaim. Its superiority remains unchallenged, proving that genuine sub-bass is a rare commodity, and only available from a specialist. New Pro-Ject Dock Box iPod Dock The new Pro-Ject Dock Box iPod dock is finally here and it's a killer! No degradation of sound quality because it completely bypasses the iPod's headphone output. The supplied remote works very nice too, letting you go through the menus, etc... It also has an S-Video output to stream video content (pictures, video podcasts, movies etc.) to a TV screen. The perfect compliment to the Amp Box. It's now possible to put together an audiophile micro system for an unheard of low price. Suitable for any iPod with the standard dock connector. MSRP of $169.00. Now Carrying Quad Speakers For over 50 years, Quad has been making some of the finest speakers money can buy. The legendary ESL-57 electrostatic revolutionized the way speakers were made and are still considered a reference today, 50 years after their debut. Today, Quad makes a whole range of heritage-rich loudspeakers including the affordable L2 series of bookshelf and floorstanding speakers. Finished in gorgeous gloss finishes including piano black and rosewood, they provide a beautifully organic yet powerful sound free of boxy colourations. As well, Quad is still pushing the envelope of high performance in electrostatic design with the world-class 2805 and 2905. Stop by for an audition today! Now Carrying Benchmark Digital Converters Computer audio is fast becoming the new standard for digital playback but the quality of the built in outputs on most sound cards is extremely low. How do you get the thousands of albums you've transferred to the computer back out and sounding their best? Benchmark has the answer. Reference quality USB DAC, DAC Pre-amp, and even ADC (analogue to digital converter). Stemming from a long studio heritage, Benchmark offers the highest fidelity, jitter-free conversion with the convenience of plug and play for both Mac and Windows computers. Up to 24 bit/192KHz sampling brings you master tape quality reproduction of your computer audio files. 47 Labs Lens Speakers on demo With the single driver speaker craze in full swing, we thought it was time to bring in our favourite single driver speaker, the 47 Labs 4722 Lens. Single driver speakers have some undeniable advantages over multi-way designs. They are phase accurate which means that the sound stage is sublime. Also, they "time" very well as there is no mismatch between when the sound of one driver gets to your ear in relation to a second driver. One driver tends to sound very immediate with transients that are just like a real instrument. The Lens also sidesteps the main faults of most single driver speakers. It is very balanced in frequency response, meaning that the tone of a piano sounds just like a piano. And, it's nearly full range so you make no compromises in choice of music. But the best part of all is the size. For all of you who have small condos (like they do in Japan), there is no speaker of this size which sounds better. Perfect as a main system with the matching 47 Labs gear, or as a second system for the office, these 10" tall speakers must be heard to be believed! Logitech Squeezebox Duet In Stock! Logitech has just released the revolutionary Squeezebox Duet wireless music device. This little gizmo sends all the music that's on your computer wirelessly to your stereo in any other room of the house. It's pure digital quality so there are no lags or dropouts. But, the best part of it is the handy remote control which shows you the album art and other graphical information about your music collection. Sound quality is excellent too, on par with a $500-$1000 CD player. There is no longer any reason to keep CDs around. Just copy them to your hard drive and have your entire music collection in the palm of your hand! For those wanting even higher quality sound, add an external DAC to rival the sound of even the most expensive CD players. Finally, you can make playlists for parties, have multiple receiving units for listening all around the house and you can tune into internet radio at the press of a button. All this for $499.99! Now carrying Simon Yorke Record Players! Simon Yorke has been hand building the world's finest turntables for 25 years. Always outspoken, his designs bring together a regimented sense of minimalism in appearance, obssession to craft and production and the most musical sounds that the analogue medium can provide. In short, one man's take on the perfect turntable. Each Simon Yorke turntable is hand built and shipped in a sturdy crate. Customers include the US Library of Congress and the Library and Archives of Canada. Suitable for the most exacting audiophile or for transcription of priceless historical vinyl, owning a Simon Yorke puts you amongst exclusive company. Starting at $8999.99. Introducing the Pro-Ject Debut III USB Turntable. The vinyl revival is in full swing and Pro-Ject is leading the way with a new turntable featuring a USB connection. The Debut III USB allows you to transfer your old LPs directly onto your computer where you can then stream to a Squeezebox or convert the files to MP3 for use on your iPod. Other USB turntables can't compete with Pro-Ject's design and engineering. Remember, to make a good USB turntable you have to start with a good turntable. Whereas other turntables have cheap plastic bases and tonearms, Pro-Ject offers damped MDF, metal and extruded aluminum machined to the highest tolerances. Engineering pays off, and the Debut III USB sounds every bit as good as its $549.00 price tag suggests. For archiving your vinyl, there is no easier option. Now carrying 47 Laboratory! I recently had the pleasure of visiting Japan and meeting Junji Kimura, the designer of 47 Laboratory audio equipment. Kimura-san has worked for top Japanese audio companies since 1963 - Pioneer, Kenwood, Kyocera and Luxman. Sitting and listening in his home-workshop, it quickly became apparent that I was in the presence of a true grand-master of audio design. His vision for hi-fi is now honed to perfection - "only the simplest can accommodate the most complex." Music is the most complex form of communication, and the recorded arts frequently fail to bring us close enough to the live performance to suspend disbelief. With the world's shortest signal paths, fewest and highest quality components, 47 Labs equipment succeeds where almost all others have failed. From the physical appearance to the peerless construction, to the immediacy and "correctness" of the sound, Kimura-san has achieved a type of magic that any appreciative person will immediately recognize. Owning a 47 Labs system is something much more than just owning great audio equipment. It's about appreciating the genius behind each design each time you look at it, touch it and listen to it. Rarely in life does the full beauty of simplicity shine so brightly. As both a work of art and the pinnacle of engineering, it's about forgetting all the marketing and gratuitous features of other hifi and tapping into a purely enjoyable musical experience. Like having an on night if you're a musician, or feeling that you've hit a perfect tennis shot before the ball even lands, 47 Labs equipment puts together all the fleeting parts of music in a way that you instantly know is right. Pro-Ject Miniature Amplifiers are here! It's the holy grail of the stereo world. How do you get a tiny amplifier that sounds good? Pro-Ject has applied their phenomenal engineering knowledge gained from precision turntable design to making the world's smallest audiophile quality amplifier. Built in two separate boxes, each smaller than a CD, the Pre Box and Amp Box will revolutionize the term "mini system." The Pre Box features 2 inputs and remote control for $299. The Amp Box outputs a true 20 watts per channel which is enough to comfortably drive most speakers. It costs $349. A third version called the Amp Box Mono is a single channel version of the same that makes 28 watts and costs $299. The sound of these units can embarrass many amplifiers up to $3000. When you consider all this quality comes in something the size of a pack of cigarettes, it is remarkable how Pro-Ject is able to do it. Now carrying Harbeth Speakers! We’re proud to be carrying one of the UK’s classic speaker lines. Harbeth was founded in 1977 by a senior BBC Research Engineer and the engineering knowledge of two generations is encapsulated in every Harbeth loudspeaker. The 'Harbeth sound' flows from the unique blend of premium construction techniques and the advanced high-technology Harbeth UK-made RADIAL drive units. Harbeth's 'thin wall BBC style' cabinets may look deceptively simple but are by far the most complicated: think not of a rigid box, but of five critically damped and tuned panel sub-systems which dissipate unwanted energy for a truly "unboxy" sound. Owning Harbeths brings you into far more intimate contact with the music - it's as if they "breathe". The BBC chooses Harbeth as its reference monitor. New Teac Reference mini systems are here! Our number one request is for a great sounding small stereo. Teac has stepped up to the plate in a big way with 3 new systems including a CD Receiver, DVD receiver and mini Receiver and CD player separates. All of these are really well thought out designs with the features you want, like iPod connections, full remote control, amazing build quality and most importantly - great sound. Priced at $459, $499 and $659 respectively, there have never been such good products at such affordable prices. Any of the systems can be matched to a pair of speakers up to $1000. Not only do they have real power to play at loud levels, but the sound quality will embarrass many full size components. You have to hear these to believe how good they sound. Our music catalogue is now online! After many requests, we've finally brought the bulk of our music catalogue online. We added almost 300,000 items to choose from - everything from Alternative to Jazz to Classical. And we'll be adding more as the months go on. If you don't see something, just call us and we'll search for you personally. As well, we're choosing some of our favourites each month to showcase so you can keep up to date with the hottest new releases and reissues. We ship in high quality LP mailers or bubble envelopes for CDs & DVDs. Many popular titles will ship within about 7 days. Now carrying Shure! Shure is one of the most trusted names in audio, both in the consumer and professional fields. To reflect the huge growth in portable music listening, they created what are now the world's most popular in-ear headphones. Styled to match the iPod and other MP3 players, the "E" line of headphones offers a shocking improvment over the standard earbuds that came with your player. The Shure headphones function like earplugs so they block out almost all outside noise. This makes them ideal for air or bus travel by providing a silent background to listen to music by. Now carrying SurgeX! While most of the gear we sell is unfussy about AC power quality, we understand that the reality for our customers might be quite different. Not everyone can run dedicated lines and even then, depending on who else is on the same sub-grid as you, you can have noise from RFI and large appliances two houses away impacting your sound. We have finally found a power conditioner which is worth the money. It's well built, affordable and most importantly, fixes many of the problems our customers complain about. SurgeX power conditioners range from $350 to $595. Take one home and see if your power needs help! Now carrying Audio Research! Audio Research is one of the oldest continually operating manufacturers in American audio.The company was founded in 1970 in Minneapolis with one goal in mind: to advance the state-of-the-art in music reproduction. Today, Audio Research remains a performance-oriented company by philosophy and design. New product introductions are driven only by genuine advances in technology and performance -- the HIGH DEFINITION that is the hallmark of the company's products. Audio Research products have demonstrated lasting residual value after purchase. More than a few models have acquired legendary "collector" status and continue to resell for as much or close to what they originally cost. The Audio Research customer does not have to fear instant, marked depreciation as is the case with most other audio components. Now carrying Stax Headphones! In 1959 STAX developed the world’s first electrostatic headphone. Today STAX continues their tradition by offering the finest headphones for both professional and audiophile applications. STAX prefers to call its headphones “EARSPEAKERS”; such Ultra-High Fidelity devices for reproducing music can only be compared with the best cost-no-object loudspeakers, not other headphones. The term ”EARSPEAKER” is therefore more descriptive of STAX’s contribution to today’s most advanced level of sonic reproduction. If you're serious about headphone listening, STAX is the ultimate. Now carrying Slim Devices Squeezebox & Transporter! Slim Devices products are the best way to put wireless music in every room of your house. They deliver pure digital sound without the hassle of shuffling through CDs. It takes just a few minutes to install. Slim Devices Squeezebox is the affordable way to stream digital music and Internet radio to your stereo. This award-winning product is perfect for any room. Squeezebox offers you the widest choice of listening options beyond your music collection. The product includes a directory of thousands of internet radio stations and features Pandora's personalized music service and Rhapsody's 2 million song collection. All internet streaming services are even available when your computer is turned off. Transporter was designed to appeal to the most discerning audiophiles and music lovers. It streams digital music with sound quality that surpasses even the most exotic compact disc players. At the heart of Transporter is a "no compromise" attitude to component selection and electronic design. Now carrying Sennheiser! Sennheiser is one of the oldest and most prestigious heaphone companies around. They make great value, great sounding products all the way from their ear buds to their reference series. The HD650 in particular has won countless awards and acclaim around the world. It features a lush sound, great detail and huge soundstage while being open and comfortable to wear. Sennheiser headphones demand top quality amplification and source material and are a natural match for the Creek OBH-21 headphone amplifier. Come in for a listen today! Now carrying Marantz! We've been trying to get Marantz into the store since we opened. Their entire line of products is great sounding and affordably priced and unlike other Japanese companies, they are still strongly supporting 2-channel stereo and SACD. If you've owned a Marantz product in the past you will feel comforted in knowing that their trademark sound still lives on. It's lush, big and above all musical. Now carrying Tivoli for Radio and iPods! The late great Henry Kloss is world renowned for his radio expertise and now you can buy his designs in the stylish and amazing sounding Tivoli radios. You won't believe the kind of room-filling sound these table top radios provide. The reception is top class. The ergonomics are perfect (check out the design awards). The appearance will enhance any decor. Check out some of the reviews here. Best of all, these radios have an external input jack for your iPod so you can listen to your music collection wherever you are. The PAL models even have a built in rechargeable battery for instant sound on the go. People are waking up to the hours of free entertainment on FM and there is no easier way to add speakers to your iPod. Come have a listen today. Now carrying Graham Slee! Graham Slee is a specialist hi-fi company from the UK which manufactures some of the best phono pre-amps made today. Until you hear a Graham Slee you will not believe the detail which is available from LPs. Prices range between $349 for the Gram amp up to $1599 for the Jazz Club (which we have on demo). they also make a stunning headphone amplifier in the form of the Solo ($1299) Now carrying the full line of Pro-Ject turntables! We have had such success in selling the entry level Pro-Ject Debut III ($379 with cartridge) that we decided it was time to take on the whole line of excellent tables from Pro-Ject. Pro-Ject is now the largest turntable manufacturer in the world and their commitment to quality engineering at unbeatable prices gets stronger every day. Acrylic plinths, carbon fibre arms and full adjustment/tweak potential have never been available so cheap. Once you hear one against a comparably priced CD player you will wonder why you didn't buy a turntable sooner. Now carrying Rega We are pleased to announce that we're now carrying Rega. Rega is one of the most well known turntable manufacturers. In 1975, they defined the art with the release of the Planar 2. The innovative thinking was so advanced most of the same construction principles are still used today. Their award winning RB250 and RB300 have become the basis for countless aftermarket tweaks and are used on a plethora of other manufacturers tables. Their turntables, amps, CD players and speakers are some of the best value in audio today. Now carrying Nitty Gritty We are pleased to announce that we're now an authorized dealer for Nitty Gritty record cleaning machines. If you haven't used one of these, you're in for a treat. Vacuum powered, these will lift all the grime and dust off your LPs and leave them sparkling like new. The sound difference is amazing. Just about all the surface noise as well as dirt-related pops and crackles are eliminated. 5 models to choose from starting at $395 CDN.