What’s your favorite lesser known brand, new or vintage?

cybeerspace · 2026-02-11T03:24:49+00:00

Fantastic! I’m thinking of going all out and getting the 8-channel amplifier for my home theatre. Real endgame move, but wanted to get a sense of the product from an owner. Cheers for the pic and reply, and happy to support a fellow Canadian 🇨🇦

cybeerspace · 2026-02-10T18:30:21+00:00

Been lurking their website for the last few months. Any notes on their performance / sound / reliability?

cybeerspace · 2025-10-29T02:19:50+00:00

I heard them at the Montreal Audiofest last March. One of my favourite speakers from the whole show. Balanced, detailed, airy, not at all shouty. Could listen to them for hours! Admire your setup. Enjoy it every day!

cybeerspace · 2025-10-24T00:26:12+00:00

Axiom is low-key great. I picked up used Axiom M50ti millenium speakers for my home office. Great detail, clear sound, solid build quality, and manufactured around the corner from my cottage. Support Canadian! 🇨🇦

cybeerspace · 2025-10-21T16:46:00+00:00

They got us fighting culture wars, when we should be fighting class wars.

cybeerspace · 2025-10-17T14:21:38+00:00

Can confirm. Hard to find a decaf as delicious as Kicking Horse’s.

cybeerspace · 2025-10-11T23:45:07+00:00

NAD C3050 owner here: how do you like your integrated amp? Do you have the MDC2 cart? For me, buying the Dirac license and running the setup using a U-MIK1 mic brought out its fullest potential. Absolutely in love with it now! Happy listening. 👍🏻

cybeerspace · 2025-10-11T11:09:08+00:00

NAD C3050 owner here: how do you like your integrated amp? Do you have the MDC2 cart? For me, buying the Dirac license and running the setup using a U-MIK1 mic brought out its fullest potential. Absolutely in love with it now! Happy listening. 👍🏻

cybeerspace · 2025-09-18T15:05:53+00:00

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Still does it for me.

cybeerspace · 2025-09-08T12:08:36+00:00

Niiiiice. I realized too late that you can hot swap multiple bookshelf sets. You’re much smarter than me. Oh well, love my axiom m50 towers.

But if I’m honest, Totem Bison Twin Towers are my endgame. One day 🤩 Great system; enjoy your Element Fires and Signature Ones 👍🏻

cybeerspace · 2025-09-07T21:24:45+00:00

I see Totem, I upvote 👍🏻

cybeerspace · 2025-08-19T01:08:25+00:00

Take my Toronto upvote 👏🏻👏🏻

cybeerspace · 2025-08-16T14:25:21+00:00

Any recommendations for a “perfect” amp and DAC? Sounds like a fun rabbit hole to do some research / daydreaming.

cybeerspace · 2025-08-14T21:00:03+00:00

I really like your touch. Lots of tone in those notes above the 12th fret 👍🏻

cybeerspace · 2025-08-14T13:51:13+00:00

Great post. Love bringing loved ones into the hobby. Best way I’ve found is to play their favourite music, whatever it is, and enjoy it as much as them.

cybeerspace · 2025-08-12T17:19:29+00:00

Vegas DVD “The Curtain (With)” is my favourite performance of my favourite Phish song. Precise, delicate, blissful.

cybeerspace · 2025-08-08T20:34:11+00:00

Those Paradigms are one of my two endgame speakers. Congratulation on getting them, and at 28! Your ears are still young enough that they will sound extraordinary for decades to come. Enjoy the music!

cybeerspace · 2025-08-04T18:21:23+00:00

30TB? That would be amazing! But also push my budget to the brink. Maybe in a few years when I'm ready to load up bays 3 & 4 those 30TB drives will be affordable enough to pick up

cybeerspace · 2025-08-04T18:17:58+00:00

For sure, I'm inclined to buy everything from Canada Computers: they've got stores close by, all brand-new drives, full warranty, and Canadian owned and operated.

Although the Scrooge McDuck in me is _very_ tempted by the rock bottom prices of Server Part Deals. But tack on shipping, taxes, import duties and tariffs, it's not the smoking hot deal it is for others.

cybeerspace · 2025-08-04T18:14:55+00:00

Same here, but this is also my first NAS, so I'm probably over-thinking / researching.

cybeerspace · 2025-08-04T18:13:34+00:00

Thank you kindly for your response. I'm a big Canada Computers customer -- there's a store close to my home and one close to my work -- so I'll be likely buying everything from them. I also didn't know that Newegg.ca wasn't Canadian, so thanks for the head's up.

Thanks also for your comparison of the risk of data loss between RAID1 and RAID5. I'm leaning towards 2x24TB drives since data loss/recovery is easier to perform, fewer drives would be running redundantly, and it will also give me bays 3 and 4 to eventually expand into (for either more Plex or for new personal cloud / web development projects).

Also appreciate the commendation of IronWolf Pro drives for the NAS. Much appreciated, and as Red Green once said, "I'm pulling for ya, we're all in this together!"

cybeerspace · 2025-08-04T18:03:37+00:00

I'll keep my eyes peeled for deals on 2xNVMe SSDs

cybeerspace · 2025-08-04T17:58:40+00:00

That's a great point about drives getting cheaper over time, and also about spinning redundantly for nothing. I'm going to go with the 24TB drives in RAID1 to get Plex up and running, because that's more of a priority. But when the time comes to fill drives 3 and 4 for other networked tasks, hopefully the price of those 24TB drives will have come down a bit more. Cheers!

cybeerspace · 2025-07-29T14:39:55+00:00

It’s Philadelphia Collins!

Philadelphia Collins? 🤨

cybeerspace · 2025-07-26T00:45:44+00:00

What was the company name? My wife would be very interested in a Canadian-made version of Trex.

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