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Introducing Wilson Audio

Introducing Wilson Audio

December 04, 2014 The Sound Room is happy to announce, we have been appointed the exclusive dealer for Wilson Audio loudspeakers in BC. We are awaiting the arrival of a pair of Sacha 2's in Titanium Brown with a special metallic finish.  We expect to have them on demonstration by mid-December. Wilson Audio is celebrating 40 years of exceptional design and engineering.  They are specialists in the art of high performance loudspeakers, from the Duette bookshelf speaker, to the "State of the Art" Alexandria XLF. Built in Provo Utah USA, David Wilson's close team of engineers and craftsmen produce some of the most acclaimed loudspeakers in...

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CES 2015 part one

January 16, 2015 CES 2015 was an undeniable success this year, with over 160,000 attendees according to the taxi driver who drove me to the airport Friday.  There were many cool products launched at the show and many of them will be available at The Sound Room.   At the Harman booth, Revel were showing the new Concerta series of speakers.  Those white towers in the theatre shot are meant to retail for $2000 Canadian a pair! They sounded excellent and the fit and finish was impressive. One Sub, one bookshelf, a centre speaker and two towers all featuring aluminium drivers and computer modelled cabinet designs.  The...

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An evening with Paradigm Speakers and Anthem Electronics

March 06, 2015Thursday, March 12th from 6pm to 9pmHosted by Paul Grove, Senior VP, and Zoltan Balla, Brand Manger, for Paradigm and Anthem.The Sound Room would like to invite you to the west coast launch of Paradigm's exciting new Prestige Series speaker collection. We will be demonstrating these marvellous new designs with music and movies. Learn how this Canadian hand crafted speaker product, was engineered and constructed to the highest of standards, yet offers exceptional value for money. Prestige is truly a high end product in performance, fit and finish (especially in high gloss midnight cherry!). We will also be...

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An afternoon with Nordost

March 06, 2015Saturday, March 7th from 2:30pm - 5:30pmPlease join us for an afternoon of music and comparison. Nordost's Michael Taylor will be on hand to offer insight as well as demonstrate how cables can really influence a system. In true Nordost fashion, cables will be presented with music so everyone can hear the differences for themselves. Come listen as we show how cables can profoundly increase the performance of the equipment you already own. Learn new things about cables and the way they behave, hear some new music, and have some fun. Enter to win some superb door prizes...

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Vinyl Friday - June 19th, 5pm-8pm

Vinyl Friday - June 19th, 5pm-8pm

June 17, 2015 Join us for the start of a new tradition at The Sound Room.Free basic turntable tune-ups including cartridge alignment using a project alignment gauge.Free stylus wear evaluation using our powerful microscope.Free record cleaning on our Music Hall WCS-2 vacuum record cleaning machine - limit to 5 LPs per person.Bring you favourite LP and listen to it on our reference system, featuring Wilson Audio Sasha 2's, Devialet 400 and a Nottingham Analog 294 Space Deck.10% off all turntables, cartridges, phono stages, turntable accessories and tone arm cables.Mark Owen from Nottingham Analog and Pro-Ject will be on hand for...

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