Beginner Articles

With each passing year, consumer technology marches on, providing end users with higher resolutions (UltraHD/4K for TVs, lossless audio for music), faster Internet connections...

If you happened to live just a few hundred years ago, the only way you could enjoy music was to either sing or play...

Let’s assume that you have been a good little boy or girl over most of your history. And we are not talking just good,...

Editor's note: this article was originally published in the June/July 2014 print edition of CANADA HiFi. Hundreds of millions of people around the world have...

We live in an increasingly technology-filled world and while there’s more computing power in a modern smart phone than the spacecraft that landed on...

On March 25th, 1925, when Scottish inventor John Logie Baird gave the first public demonstration of televised silhouette images in motion at Selfridge’s Department...

Have you ever played air guitar to Guns’n’Roses’ “Sweet Child of Mine”?  Or perhaps air drummed Phil Collins’ “In the Air Tonight” like that...

HDTVs are an integral part of many consumers’ homes and with the recent switch to digital over-the-air broadcasting in Canada, back in September of...

It is now well known that turntables are making quite a strong comeback in the world of high-end audio. What is less well known...

When the first television sets arrived in the 1930s, they changed the way information and media were brought to the masses. For the first...