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3 Presented on April 6, 2019

All About Jazz at the 2019 Montréal Audio Fest: Part 5-7: Featuring MOON by SimAudio.

Duration: 11:18

The fifth installment of All About Jazz's coverage of the 32nd annual Montréal Audio Fest, a spectacular event spotlighting over 300 manufacturers and distributors of high-end audio/video systems ranging from $1,000 to $1,000,000. Follow host John Kelman as he interviews representatives from several Canadian manufacturers and engages in some listening sessions with their equipment.

Episode 5: John interviews Costa Koulisakis, Vice President Customer Experience at SimAudio, who manufacture a full range of audiophile quality electronic audio gear in its MOON by SimAudio line, starting with an entry level “All in One" system priced at $4,000 (CAD) and going up from there. Moon by SimAudio's “All in One" system requires only a set of speakers, enabling those who already have a good pair of speakers but lesser electronics to upgrade their sonics at a very reasonable price for the performance.

MOON by SimAudio also includes network players/DACs, CD players, integrated amplifiers, preamplifiers, power amplifiers, headphone amplifiers, phono preamps and more, with Koulisakis providing insights into the design and aesthetic properties that drive this exciting and attractive audio line.

3 Presented on April 5, 2019

All About Jazz at the 2019 Montréal Audio Fest: Part 4-7. Featuring Oracle Audio and EON Art.

Duration: 12:03

The fourth installment of All About Jazz's coverage of the 32nd annual Montréal Audio Fest, a spectacular event spotlighting over 300 manufacturers and distributors of high-end audio/video systems ranging from $1,000 to $1,000,000. Follow host John Kelman as he interviews representatives from several Canadian manufacturers and engages in some listening sessions with their equipment.

Episode 4: John interviews Oracle's Jacques Riendeau and EON Art's Stéphane Hautcoeur, who have teamed together to create another dream system that, unlike many at the festival, still relies on physical media. Oracle designs and manufactures both more easily affordable and studio reference quality turntables and CD players, amongst other products, with a very specific and recognizable design aesthetic that can best be compared to the “box-in-a-box" design being used in many modern acoustic performance spaces. EON Arts specializes in tube/transistor combo amplifiers and other components, utilizing tubes in the preamp stage and transistors in the power amp stage. Together, while far from entry level, Oracle and EON Art provide systems that span a broad price range and will appeal to audiophiles still disposed towards hard media.

4 Presented on April 4, 2019

All About Jazz at the 2019 Montréal Audio Fest: Part 3-7. Featuring Christian Ouellet of Solen.

Duration: 8:15

The third installment of All About Jazz's coverage of the 32nd annual Montréal Audio Fest, a spectacular event spotlighting over 300 manufacturers and distributors of high-end audio/video systems ranging from $1,000 to $1,000,000. Follow host John Kelman as he interviews representatives from several Canadian manufacturers and engages in some listening sessions with their equipment.

Episode 3: John interviews Christian Ouellet, President of St Hubert-based company, Solen. Amongst other internal components, Solen manufactures “the highest performance loudspeaker crossover parts available" and “the highest quality speaker driver units that you can find," used by a plethora of well-known speaker manufacturers including Totem, Yamaha, Paradigm and others, in systems across the pricing spectrum.

Christian explains, amongst other things, the difference between various tweeters and why most quality speaker companies have moved to cabinetry with no parallel lines.

The listening session employs Solen's top-of-the-line “The Ultimate Experience" four-way speakers, driven by electronics from Bryston, who will be interviewed later in the week and whose many products are distributed by Solen.

5 Presented on April 3, 2019

All About Jazz at the 2019 Montréal Audio Fest: Part 2-7. Featuring Tetra Speakers & Emm Labs.

Duration: 10:07

The second installment of All About Jazz's coverage of the 32nd annual Montréal Audio Fest, a spectacular event spotlighting over 300 manufacturers and distributors of high-end audio/video systems ranging from $1,000 to $1,000,000. Follow host John Kelman as he interviews representatives from several Canadian manufacturers and engages in some listening sessions with their equipment.

Episode 2: John interviews Ottawa-based Adrian Butts and Calgary resident Amadeus Meitner, President and Operations Manager, respectively, of Tetra Speakers and Emm Labs. Tetra began designing “Listening Instruments" that make it possible to “hear it the way musicians intended" in 1994, and commenced manufacture and sales of their high end products four years later, with some of its more illustrious listeners including Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter, Keith Richards, David Torn, Peter Erskine and Rob Fraboni.

Emm Labs' owner and chief designer is the renowned Ed Meitner, who has literally spent a lifetime in the audio industry. He was a part of the development team for the Direct Stream Digital (DSD) technology at the core of high resolution SACDs that continue to be released to this day. Partnered with his son Amadeus, Emm Labs has continued to expand its product line to including a range of CD/SACD players, amplification, digital-to-analogue conversion and more, with products utilized by prestigious names including Abbey Road Studios, Bernie Grundman Mastering, Bob Ludwig, Mobile Fidelity and Chesky Records, and artists like Chick Corea, Pink Floyd's David Gilmour, Diana Krall and Andrea Bocelli.

Together, Tetra and Emm Labs have partnered to create a true dream system worth $385,000. Based on sampling it at the festival, it's worth every penny.

10 Presented on April 2, 2019

All About Jazz at the 2019 Montréal Audio Fest: Part 1-7. Interview with MAF Co-Director Michel Plante.

Duration: 9:26

The first installment of All About Jazz's coverage of the 32nd annual Montréal Audio Fest, a spectacular event spotlighting over 300 manufacturers and distributors of high-end audio/video systems ranging from $1,000 to $1,000,000. Follow host John Kelman as he interviews representatives from several Canadian manufacturers and engages in some listening sessions with their equipment.

In Episode 1, John interviews festival co-director Michel Plante about the history of the event and this year's theme: Woodstock @ 50.

5 Presented on March 22, 2019