New things at the Toronto audio show 2024

[@ThomasAndStereo]

Support Vincent kickstarter www.kickstarter.com/projects/1669379432/songe-le-violoncelle-au-coeur-dune-reverie I ran into copyright issues for this video because of background music. I used KZbin feature to remove it but it might sound weird. Sorry about that.

[@vincentbelanger5078]

Thanks Thomas! It works like a pre-sale, guaranteeing a personalized copy signed by me! 😇

[@plaubelmakina8916]

+1 for laughing out loud at ridiculously priced audio and asking if snake oil comes with the cables. A classic.

[@jedi-mic]

You pay extra for the snake oil for that slippery sound😂

[@soowat1190]

So many new products everything six month! Thanks for the tour Thomas. 😍💙

[@tubespring]

Fine coverage! I especially liked the way the speakers were described and demonstrated. Thank you.

[@ThomasAndStereo]

Glad you liked it!

[@thecat6062]

I appreciate your approach to exploring and gaining information on audio products. I can see why your products get such high praise. Looking forward to making a few purchases from you in the near future.

[@ThomasAndStereo]

@@thecat6062Awesome! Thanks

[@jwinstonh1926]

Thomas, thanks for sharing. I was out of town so I did not go to the show. However, I find that most of this gear is overblown and in many cases you end up with HQTV type unnaturalness, but for music. I am only interested in the music, not constantly worrying if it’s the best sound ever. The music is what drives me, how it makes me feel. Yes, I also get that I need good equipment (regardless of who is making it) to truly appreciate the music. I have four systems in my house, all of which I am satisfied with, regarding sound quality. Each having a different sound signature which, leaves me in the music’s embrace. That does not mean that I am not interested in hearing the new, constantly changing stuff that the industry has on offer. I can admit that I love hifi equipment, ever since I was a boy, thanks to my father. But there is a limit and common sense has to step in at some point. Having said that, I like watching your reviews. I watch Huff’s reviews some times, I feel for him and I mostly like what he does. However, what a restless soul, constantly changing gear. Thank you again, Thomas. Great stuff.

[@BobTrainor]

That was awesome Thomas. It was like spending the day at the show with you, one of the best audio KZbinrs - for sure. (Goat?)

[@roig8578]

Thanks for the video. The Toronto show looks like a very High End Audio show, just like the Pacific Audio Festival. I have been to Axpona twice and to the RMAF once in 2019 (their last year); the RMAF was the best show I have ever been to. The RMAF had a very good balance of expensive High End Audio and the more moderately priced audio set ups that most people can afford.

[@psyphonyxaudio]

Always good to see you at shows. Cheers!

[@wouterkolkman]

Great to see your item about the Elipson speakers - these were my first proper Hifi speakers late 80s. Their soundstage is special - sound is free from the box. Because of the shape you don’t have the standing waves. Mine also had the Helmholtz resonator, so they went down quite deep in a controlled fashion. My next speakers were the Elipson 1303 with more body and with Foster tweeters more resolution in the high frequencies - fond memories! Thank you, Thomas:-)

[@ThomasAndStereo]

Thanks for sharing.

[@khoi83]

@@wouterkolkman Elipson is very underrated here in North America.

[@scottyo64]

Nice and detailed. Thank you Thomas! I will check out the audio sensibility cables

[@ThomasAndStereo]

Yes, they are quite well known here in Canada

[@petekutheis3822]

I have an audio sensibility cable on my turntable for the last several years. Nice cable.

[@sauleomarova7730]

@@petekutheis3822 that is a definitive endorsement of the product ! "nice cable" ... LOVE IT!

[@montycaps8235]

I have my system fitted with Audio Sensibility cables right from the turntable, interconnects and powers cables. Very happy with them. Great company.

[@silkhead44]

I was at the show and saw Thomas doing his thing...certainly a show for people with a lot of disposable income....I enjoyed the headphone room...bought a nice dongle dac for $70.00

[@frodobalboa]

Audio Sensibilty cables are great. I have their speaker cables and power cable and they sound great. Great customer service as well

[@ThomasAndStereo]

Yes they are!

[@SeregaYamborko]

Thanks for stopping by Thomas 👍 glad to see you ✌️

[@Antibackgroundnoise]

Have we just spent over half an hour looking at components we're probably never going to be able to afford. Listening to Thomas is almost as addictive as listening to music ❤

[@leonidyamborko4531]

Great video, happy as always to see you at the show! Audio Note room is awesome too, very unique and must be more showcased. Some my customers didn’t find it, and it’s sad as they are big fans of this beautiful product! Burmester was really good at Saturday, I heard from lots of people in my room. Actually there was a lot of good products and brands!

[@superdougie10]

Spectakoola and oh so Gorgeously Beautiful. At least 2/3 of the gear made my mouth water.

[@DeepHorizon3773]

All New Popori Acoustics Loudspeakers are on the market now ! New Holy Grail ?!...

[@csamaras]

Those ELACs in the tiny Altitudo room were something else. They revealed everything and didn't make your ears bleed. And the bass was tight and not at all overpowering even with the room's tiny size. Didn't get a chance to play with the trick switchable rings though.

[@yo3429]

The Elac is a little curious in construction. Not ideal at all, some major backsteps in acoustic design. Maybe not this bad at all but a bit of a mixed pack. Speakers (in every pricerange) never should make your ears bleed :)

[@leonidyamborko4531]

Elac is really good, we just start play with this model. It is sound better and better with every 4-6 hrs

[@sickjohnson]

Another great video and coverage of the 2024 Toronto Audio Show Thomas! Can't wait for the next one man. Loved the disclosure of food too! LOL

[@test40323]

i missed a lot at the audio fest. what i missed the most is meeting thomas! back to instant noodle i go...

[@bryantaylor2946]

Thanks for the kind words and your time in our Fyne Audio / Canor / Melco / Aqua DAC room! Sorry you did not hear the Fink Team or EPOS Speakers at the other end of the room. It's always difficult to switch back and forth between two systems. Hope to see you next year at Axpona! The Gramophone Inc

[@oiygfdxssfgg]

The Ruark impressed me as well

[@user-rg4xn3ib4c]

I paid $12.00 for a hamburger today, and I thought that was crazy! It caught me by surprise and it will NOT happen again. Dinning out has become a luxury in my world. I'm starting to think I can't take it anymore, so just like the hamburger I'm DONE with new audio. I'm going to invest time in more D I Y shows and cheap used gear only. It will sound good enough. Great stuff Thomas. Thank you.

[@BadMonkeyFinger_Audio]

2:08 These Ruarks are midrange-centric like MOST British speakers. I'm so ecstatic that Ruark is making passive speakers again - been a fan of theirs for decades now.

[@RichardMcKinney-gq5ow]

And we are glad to be back making speakers again!

[@khoi83]

Cabasse, Elipson, Triangle, Focal, France has some very cool and very good speaker brands !

[@zorbeclegras5708]

I can recoommended also JMR (Jean Marie Renault) and Dyptique these 2 ones are serious ones (you could a&lso check P. E. Leon, Davis, and Supravox).

[@martymcfly3837]

Had the Elac 503.2 at home and must realize, that these need really serious Amplification. This product is definitely such as good as your chain could do. Its always but with the concentro even more. Its a match for Thomas;) would like to see a review of the Floorstanders!

[@rodrojas4236]

It seems everyone is trowing insane prices to see if they will stick to the wall. 😂

[@nmahamad]

Good video Thomas. May purchase something

[@dougg1075]

Love the look of the Ruark stuff

[@autonomous-hm5yf]

I use a company called Restek audio from Germany at a fraction of these prices and the quality is in another league. The best equipment takes more effort to find but it exists and it is often a less well known manufacturer.

[@JohnLee-db9zt]

34:03 Claims everything is designed in house by their engineers, and they don’t buy off the self components. Opens the CD top loader and proceeds to show a Philips CD laser drive mechanism. 😂

[@henriksrensen3220]

Great video Thomas 👏👍

[@Staybrown11]

My wallet thanks you for not uploading reviews lately 😂 good to have you back.

[@RichardMcKinney-gq5ow]

Thanks for the mention @thomasandsterro - @Ruarkaudio we aim to please. Oh and I shoudl mention that the Ruark products you are talking about in this video will be available in Canada form next week!! Thanks again, Rich (Ruark in the UK)

[@robertpeterson8640]

Great to see the Elipson! They have been doing very interesting things at least since the 60s, I think. Is this plaster like the old ones or some more modern material?

[@ThomasAndStereo]

I did not touch it, so I don't know

[@zorbeclegras5708]

No this new series uses modern materials.

[@tothemax324]

Fynally a super tweeter correctly firing upwards, Fyne one Thomas.

[@dertechniker8867]

The Burmester in green looks spectacular.

[@francisdelacruz6439]

Nice coverage. Tannoy those speakers are works of art! Cheers.

[@bryantaylor2946]

I think you mean Fyne Audio - check the banner behind the speakers. All the owners of Fyne Audio are ex-Tannoy employees and they left en masse in 2016 to start Fyne Audio in Scotland. We've been the Canadian Distributors since 2018! They are beautiful looking and great sounding with some adjustable settings to match your room and your sound preferences.

[@francisdelacruz6439]

​@bryantaylor2946 Sry you are right, Fyne Audio! I was thinking of speakers I demoed Tannoys that looked like these speakers. Have not heard these Fyne speakers but if they sound like the Tannoys (usd 6-10k range) they are spectacular as described by Thomas. Beautiful sound but detailed with soundstage and bass powered by low watt se tubes. Cheers.

[@JohnLee-db9zt]

33:16 $1900 for couple of plugs with different metals encapsulated in what looks like wine corks. I have an open mind but I’m not going to buy that snake oil even if it has some effect.

[@budgetaudiophilelife-long5461]

🙋‍♂️ THOMAS ,THANKS🙏 FOR TAKING US ALONG 🍦🍦🍦

[@ThomasAndStereo]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@liamporter1137]

Great sharing.

[@dougg1075]

Livin the dream Thomas!!

[@johntucker5994]

Thomas, I am pretty sure Fyne is pronounced like the word "fine", not "fin". Also, your guess re the two integrated Canor amps was correct. They have an interesting feature/connection that allows them each to be used for just one channel. According to Pursuit Perfect System, using this way exponentially improves the performance (i.e., 1 + 1 = 4).

[@ThomasAndStereo]

Thanks for the info!

[@robertwang7825]

Thomas , you shud visit a proper Chinese audio show and explore the affordable chi fi that is new/available since they have so many brands that are now world class from amps , DACs , cd transports , DDC , linear power supplies , speakers etc. That would be something interesting and affordable lol. Not many ppl can afford gear in the Cad4-10k range , more like 0.4 - 3k range, ofc there will be 4-10k too but that’s normally flagship gear.

[@BobCoalWater]

The Elipson room was intriguing, the way you where describing it, was similar to my Tuner with Radio-Can/CBC, I cannot describe the sound, but for some reason I can listen at lower DB than my turntable and DAC, but it sounds just as loud, when a tune is playing that has sound that move horizontally it moves even more with my tuner, it's so musical, if I could chose my music I would mostly listen to my tuner. But only with Radio-Can and CBC, commercial music station dont sound as good. Dont get me wrong my analogue rig sounds very good, but it does not have that coloration that I love about my tuner and like the Elipson comment it's hard to describe, I cant even put a finger on it myself. Drives me crazy, I would love to find a source that sounds like my tuner.

[@dajikbatarang1]

Was nice running into you at the show

[@timleelim9930]

My initial thought was that the white Ellipsons were new Gallo speakers

[@leonidyamborko4531]

Only one detail- Elipson 80 years plus old and always building speakers like that. Looks like new Gallo looks like old Elipson

[@bilguana11]

Anthony Gallo made a spherical speaker. Did the ELAC have the Jet 6 tweeter? ELAC makes a custom AMT driver for the Burmester audio system in the Porsche.

[@matytinman]

Great video.

[@ThomasAndStereo]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@JohnLee-db9zt]

33:16 $1900 for couple of plugs with different metals encapsulated in what looks like wood stampers. Total cost $20 at most. I have an open mind but I’m not going to buy that snake oil even if it has some effect.

[@samuelwaters697]

Finally, another company with Green speakers! Really like the look of Monitor Silver 100 7g Anniversary. More should try it!

[@samuelwaters697]

Well, now that I watched… way out of reach for mortals…so

[@khoi83]

Yep

[@Philear4124]

The Hearken dac looks like my doorbell. I guess I now have an artificial doorbell. Apparently you'll soon be Cheap Audio Man the second, 14 dollar for a dac and 19.5 dollar for a turntable. Grtz Phil

[@jungtarcph]

100K - it is Dual Mono and true XLR :) personally I want some really large full range speakers and subs for 100K

[@rayhughes-tn4xg]

Thank you for the video Thomas Have never heard of that Canadian cable company i'll definitely be checking them out On a side note i'm wondering if you're working on a preamp for your a 20 Thank you Sir you are the best

[@kunsliu]

toronto audio feast, again!

[@dksculpture]

What are the horn speakers at 16:30?

[@ramlord6669]

Wasn't Angela Gilbert Yeung there? Hoped on it 🙃

[@goodsound4756]

Burmester is a german brand, therefore they're well known across Europe. But wait, no Galion products on display at Toronto?

[@khoi83]

Probably new selling strategy :)

[@MasterofPlay7]

So which room was your favorite? Do you think Burmester room bass is too much?

[@JohnLee-db9zt]

28:46 cryogenic treating cables is not expensive. I’ve done it myself and have my cables professionally cryogenically treated.

[@rolandvankleef6472]

Well tell us how you can do it by yourself.I’m very curious.

[@etow8034]

I bet 90% of these over $10,000+ components wouldn't even pass an IPC-A-610 and J-STD-001 inspection in their soldering workmanship !

[@Jdvc-yd5tx]

Out of the wok and into the fire. Did you take the antidote? 🖋

[@flyergowest]

👌👍

[@richarddegannes2928]

Hi Thomas, What is the Brand and model of the speakers walnut finished looking where one can change the ring to enhance the sound? Thanks in advance.

[@ThomasAndStereo]

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[@bryantaylor2946]

Fyne Audio - is there a Fyne Audio banner behind those speakers? Made in Scotland!

[@sauleomarova7730]

I hope the hotdogs were appropriately "high end" as well.

[@stevieg2755]

They were Mammoth meat

[@crazyprayingmantis5596]

A Mammoth tusk cartridge 😂 Cant wait for the Flintstones bird beak tonearm.

[@fonkenful]

I thought that was just the phono cartridge body ?

[@crazyprayingmantis5596]

​@@fonkenful You're right, fixed it. It's still just as ridiculous

[@fonkenful]

@@crazyprayingmantis5596 Of that there’s not doubt, and it was no doubt pre-cryogenically treated.

[@lgmediapcsalon9440]

lol 2000$ cables

[@jeffc9119]

Nothing at the show from Cambridge audio? I have been curios about the Evo One to stream music and use with my tv? Have you seen it? Thanks

[@RichardMcKinney-gq5ow]

You should also check out the @ruarkaudio R410 & R810

[@thecure3665]

No link for vincent ! 😊

[@ThomasAndStereo]

www.kickstarter.com/projects/1669379432/songe-le-violoncelle-au-coeur-dune-reverie

[@briancampbell7712]

Thomas...why isn't your amplifier at the audio show...?

[@khoi83]

You should have pronounced Elipson correctly as you speak French too and Elip-"son" should be pronounced as ,,sound,, in French, as it's a well known French speaker brand. But the rest of the video is very good. Thanks

[@tpop3723]

Seems like snake oil was quite abundant this time around.

[@tothemax324]

I dipped my bread in some and it was delicious.

[@peripheral1258]

Whole lotta hooey as usual... A nice paint job. A 19K DAC that might fail on ASRforums. And a mammoth tusk for a head-shell... Two INtegrated Amps for what? Stereo? And I'm only half way thru ....time for a bit of Zappa Live in "Erie 1974 via Tidal over my Stax and $200 topping dac. ps: At least Audiosensibility's products are mostly in the hundreds instead of thousands. ...nice paint tho'...

[@bryantaylor2946]

The two Canor Integrated amps - one uses tube amplification the other is class A solid state. Some people wanted to hear both kinds of amplification with the Fyne Audio Vintage 15. Also, some clients do not want tubes because of the possibility of maintenance in the future so Canor in Slovakia makes both.

[@jedi-mic]

You want to see nonsense go to a hi fi show 😂

[@fletchermunson6225]

I just got a pair of Cabasse Murano speakers. very impressive. Interesting products but I'll pass on the two big balls. Might look like my ex wife's trophy room.

[@dandinhofer9240]

Is it my imagination or does everything presented seem like snake oil? This group of vendors seem hellbent on purposefully bankrupting their customers. What's the takeaway? The food seems a lot more appealing than anything else😮😮😮😮.

[@gianromanigroup]

ah ah 70k $! 35k $!! this market is totally done and dead, producers and sellers want big money but noone is buying. So instead of lowering the prices to make them more popular, they rise em up so normal people cannot afford all these toys and they become toys for ultra rich. Many compliments, you have killed the entire audio market and music as well!

[@udinbata]

Am I the only one that think..these guys just doing some redicilous price mark ups here....this make this industry fragile to "lower proce but with similar quality without all fancy accesories" products ...

[@ssleddens]

Thomas, how did you have time for this review? I saw you making out with Paul McGowan the whole time you were there.

[@stevieg2755]

Wow that's awesome going back in time to harvest Mammoth tusks,totally stupid💩

[@scorpionbradford8518]

Well overpriced goods. How much too make these components ?

[@mikeross4081]

"New things"? I didn't see anything "new" at all. Just more of the same.

[@ThomasAndStereo]

Did you not see the hotdogs?

[@mikeross4081]

@@ThomasAndStereo No but I did see the cute little ice creams!

[@kellygrant4964]

Yup.. another sausage fest going on.

[@khoi83]

Especially at the end... Very boring description for ,, promoting,, a cd player that would cost you literally one kidney... Or probably Thomas didn't look a high end potential client enough for the salesman