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 Home Theatre Equipment
Audio Excellence Yorkville looks like an art gallery, and the electronics offered could be mistaken for modern sculpture, with comparable prices. Few of the curving wood and steel speakers are less than $3,000; plasma screen televisions and DLP projectors hover around the $14,000 range. Staff will gladly devise intricate blueprints for your every audio-visual need and calibrate your equipment in situ. 83 Yorkville Ave. 416-413-0002
 | hi-fi+ - Britain's leading audiophile magazine
issue 25 page 21/22 |
Postcard from Venus - Ricki Heller
I Married an Audiophile... Or, "But maybe not in yellow!"
...But everything changed cataclysmically one spring day, as we strolled through Toronto's Yorkville district and entered an upscale audio store there. Not only do they stock the latest in audiophiles' dreamiest systems, they provide perfectly structured listening rooms in which to sit, languidly, as you take each and every one of them. As we browsed, I was more interested in the artists being played than the machines on which they were playing. Then we went back to the very end of the hallway and a room in which was placed only a sofa and Wilson Watt Puppy system. Something fantastic - perhaps the Fritz Reiner Scheherazade - was playing. My husband told me to sit on the couch, close my eyes, and listen.
Devotion can be practised over a lifetime, but conversion takes only a nanosecond. Hallelujah! I had my epiphany at that moment. "But it sounds like the orchestra is here," I marveled, struck dumb. There I was, a front-row, centre seat (only more comfortable and with a quieter audience) - all because of this phenomenal audio system. I was blown away. I could actually hear and feel the difference. It was chilling, it was exciting, it was transformative...
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