Best all Canadian system


With the loony sinking to new lows, my concerns are bang for the buck (bang for the loony? sounds weird...) and not some great sense of national pride (although I have some of that too, but it doesn't really apply to audio equipment now does it?) and uncompromised (well almost...) sound quality.

The names that come readily to mind are, obviously, Bryston, Classé, PSB, Mirage, Energy, Totem, (and, less readily it seems, that other Québec speaker company putting out astronomically priced speakers, I forget), Oracle (if you insist on vinyl) and the list probably goes on, somewhat. The idea being to assemble something that sounds good as a whole (trying to avoid the over-used "synergy", oh well, there, I said it) . I am quite sure that for certain items (CD players) the choice will be limited and for others (cartridges, who needs them?) non-existent. What are your thoughts? And by the way, for our U.S. neighbours the exercise may be worth it also, since the prices of any of the above are more than competitive stateside. Thanks.
pbb
.... and no one has mentioned Gershman. GAP 520X's running on the big Blue Circle monos, Classe Omegas or the wonderful Sim W5 amp/preamp combo. True Class A stuff. And then there's Bryston and their 20 year warranty -- safest used purchase you can make, if SS is your kind of sound. And the SF factory is just a short drive down the highway, if you prefer your hifi bottled.

As a few of you may know, Canada made available government funded acoustic chambers for all indigenous speaker designers, which really made a difference in getting our hi and mid fi industries going in the 70's - 80's and 90's. I'll never forget those Dayton Wright electrostats of the 70's - forerunners to today's Quad and ML.

I would however still look south of the border for my wire and PC's, as Gutwire (which is 3 blocks from my house!) is about all we got to hook things together. Still, I could assemble a nice system and never leave Ontario. --Lorne
Paradigm is putting out decent speakers...one of the best price/performance on the market.
An easy choice:

Verity Audio Parsifal speakers
Tenor amplifiers
Sonic Frontiers Line 3
Oracle turntable
Sim Audio Eclipse cd player

Game over.
Coincident Total Eclipse
Wyetech Topaz amps
Wyetech Opal pre
Oracle TT
Sim Audio Eclipse cdp
What about MIRAGE OM speakers ?

i think that mirage is one ofthe best bang/buck speakers u can buy when u are talking about the unpowere OM at 1200$CADfor a pair of OM-10 and 1500$ for OM-9
that's kinda cheap for the sound

they make also hot bipolar sub BPS series ..the BPS400 is a monster with excellent bass i think

i really can't wait to go at myfirst Son et Image hi-fi Montreal show this next march :)
looooooks WOWWOOWOWOW :)
eheh

Vive Canada:)