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Vancouver Audio Festival 2017: A Hifi Centre Interview

July 9, 2017

Igor Kivritsky wanted to make a difference with the Vancouver Audio Festival, and bring some of the expertise that the staff at the Hifi Centre had to the uninitiated of high fidelity. The goal was to make an audio show accessible to the average [...]

Vancouver Audio Festival 2017: NAD shows off the power of a digital hub with Sonus Faber

June 29, 2017

Lifestyle. The phrase keeps creeping into the audiophile conversation. Seems that regular people are being courted by traditional, stalwart high-fidelity manufacturers more, and more. There’s been a realization that there’s a lot of [...]

Vancouver Audio Festival 2017: High Fives on Day Two

June 25, 2017

Smiles greeted me from a number of manufacturer representatives as I headed into HiFi Centre for the second, and final day of the inaugural Vancouver Audio Festival. Seems those tasked with room demos had been making “genuine, and positive [...]

Vancouver Audio Festival 2017: Opening Day

June 24, 2017

Waking up early to already warm temperatures, and sunlight slanting into my bedroom I couldn’t help but wonder if this rare sunny day in Vancouver would mean trouble. It’s slated to be the hottest day of the year here – not a cloud in [...]

AXPONA 2017: Trends, rants and John’s Best of Show

June 11, 2017

The audio-show year kicked off for me with an eardrum-flexing snare shot in Chicago at Audio Expo North America. If those three hectic days near the end of April are any indication, we’re in for a heck of a ride. AXPONA was the first of what will [...]

HiFi Centre steps in to fill void as Vancouver Audio Show pulled from Chester Group website

May 26, 2017

With the Vancouver Audio Show that was scheduled to run June 23rd to June 25th no longer appearing on show organizer The Chester Group’s website, Igor Kivritsky of Hifi Centre in downtown Vancouver is stepping in to put on a specialized high [...]

AXPONA 2017: NAD doesn’t forget past as it embraces future

May 12, 2017

NAD Electronics for years was best known for being the stalwart of an underserved audio niche — affordable high-end. Its receivers, integrated amps and separates didn’t offer a lot of bling or bells and whistles, just good parts quality and [...]

Review: Focal Spirit Professional and NAD Viso HP50 headphones

July 11, 2015

by Brian Hunter Headphones are continuing to see a surge at nearly every pricepoint, but none is so competitive as the mainstream “High End” of $300 clearly set up by Beats, followed in turn by big alternative manufacturers like Sennheiser, [...]

Updates from the bench

November 26, 2014

Thanksgiving is a weird holiday. Here in the US, it’s tied up with some Good Samaritan myths around the charity shown the settlers by the natives. Somewhat strangely, given the name of the holiday, it’s also wrapped in cellophane [...]

An evening at Gramophone: GoldenEar Triton One and new NAD Masters Series

September 28, 2014

One of the last things I worked on for Robert Harley, editor of The Absolute Sound, was his coffee-table opus, The Illustrated History of High-End Audio. My bit was a chapter on Sandy Gross, co-founder of Polk Audio and founder of Definitive [...]