List of Amir's Recommended Speakers, for Canadians

[sweetchaos]

This thread is intended for Canadian shoppers, looking to purchase speakers.

Inspiration for this thread:
- Since I tend to visit the same websites everyday to check for a deal, I figure I'd share this info to save others time

Limitations of this thread:
- I'm only posting links for speakers that you can buy directly.
- For certain brands like Revel or JBL, most dealers/resellers don't have a page for each speaker model, so they just specify they're a "Revel authorized dealer". See my list of Canadian speaker resellers/dealers.

Items I'm not including:
- Wharfedale Diamond 220 [with Golfing/Soccer Award]. No longer sold in Canada.
- Revel M55XC (Outdoor speaker) [with Golfing/Soccer Award]. Not for traditional 5.1 channel system, but for outdoors.

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Highly Recommended Passive Speakers (sorted CDN $-$$):
- Passive speakers that received the "Golfing/Soccer Panther Award"

JBL Stage A130 (Normally CDN$350/pair. But sometimes on sale for CDN$260/pair)
- amazon, audiosource, bosssound, electronicsforless, fulllineelectronics, musicredone, powerlineelectronics, thebrick

Elac DBR-62 (Normally CDN$700/pair) (But sometimes on sale for CDN$600/pair)
- Black: amazon, audiofi, baybloorradio, crutchfield, hifipro, stardeals, classicsound, yana-online, elac.com, extremeelectronics, eqaudio
- White: amazon, audiofi, baybloorradio, crutchfield, hifipro, stardeals, classicsound, yana-online, elac.com, extremeelectronics, eqaudio
Note: elac.com will show Canadian pricing when you go through checkout

Polk S30 Center (Normally CDN$370/ea or CDN$740/pair). (Was CDN$270/ea during 2021 winter holidays on amazon.ca)
- Black: bosssound, visions, avgearshop, crutchfield.ca, amazon.ca
- Walnut: amazon.ca

JBL HDI-1600 (Normally CDN$2500/pair)
- laliberteelectronique(black), laliberteelectronique(gray), laliberteelectronique(walnut)

Revel M16 (Normally CDN$1300/pair) (Saw on sale for CDN$1200/pair from laliberte) (US$900/pair retail => CDN$1145/pair equivalent)
- Black: acoustic-tech , thomastv, updatetvandstereo, glubes, quebecacoustic, laliberteelectronique, eqaudio
- White: glubes, acoustic-tech, thomastv, updatetvandstereo, quebecacoustic, eqaudio
Note: A lot of dealers/resellers don't include a direct link for this model, so you'll have to contact them to find whether they sell it.

Revel M105 (CDN$2000/pair)(US$1500/pair retail => CDN$1911/pair equivalent)
- quebecacoustic, eqaudio
Note: A lot of dealers/resellers don't include a direct link for this model, so you'll have to contact them to find whether they sell it.

Revel F35 (Normally CDN$2400/pair) (Saw on sale for CDN$2200/pair from laliberte and eqaudio)(US$1600/pair retail => CDN$2038/pair equivalent)
- Black: thomastv, quebecacoustic, laliberteelectronique, updatetvandstereo, eqaudio
- White: thomastv, quebecacoustic, laliberteelectronique, updatetvandstereo, eqaudio
Note: A lot of dealers/resellers don't include a direct link for this model, so you'll have to contact them to find whether they sell it.

Revel M106 (CDN$2900/pair)(US$2000/pair retail => CDN$2548/pair equivalent)
- quebecacoustic, eqaudio
Note: A lot of dealers/resellers don't include a direct link for this model, so you'll have to contact them to find whether they sell it.

JBL 4309:
-N/a in Canada

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Highly Recommended Active Speakers (sorted CDN $-$$):
- Active speakers that received the "Golfing/Soccer Panther Award"

Adam T5V (Normally CDN$280/ea) (Sometimes on sale for 10-15%, when certain dealers/resellers offer storewide sale)
- amazon, avshop, cosmomusic, economik, gsbts, long-mcquade, moogaudio, musiccitycanada, musiquegagne, stevesmusic, tomleesmusic

Genelec 8010A (Normally CDN$400/ea) (Sometimes on sale for 10-15%, when certain dealers/resellers offer storewide sale)
- Black: amazon, avshop, economik, gsbts, long-mcquade, moogaudio, musiccitycanada, musiquegagne, tomleemusic
- White: economik, musiccitycanada, long-mcquade

Genelec 8320A (Normally CDN$650/ea) (Sometimes on sale for 10-15%, when certain dealers/resellers offer storewide sale)
- Black: long-mcquade
- Grey: long-mcquade, moogaudio, musiquegagne, economik, avshop, tomleemusic, gsbts
- Raw: long-mcquade, gsbts
- White: long-mcquade, gsbts

Genelec 8030C (Normally CDN$790/ea) (Sometimes on sale for 10-15%, when certain dealers/resellers offer storewide sale)
- Black: amazon, avshop, economik, gsbts, long-mcquade, moogaudio, musiccitycanada, musiquegagne, bestbuy(avshop)
- White: long-mcquade, musiccitycanada, musiquegagne
- Raw: long-mcquade

Kef LSX (Normally CDN$1000/pair)
- Black: visions.ca, amazon.ca, headphonebar
- Green: amazon.ca, eastporters
- Red: amazon.ca
- White: amazon.ca, headphonebar

Focal Solo6 Be (Normally CDN$1900/ea)(Sometimes on sale for 10-15%, when certain dealers/resellers offer storewide sale)
- amazon.ca, long-mcquade, economik, tomlee, musiccitycanada, musicredone, gsbts

Neumann KH 310A (Normally CDN$2860/ea) (Sometimes on sale for 10-15%, when certain dealers/resellers offer storewide sale)
- avshop, economik, gsbts, long-mcquade, musiccitycanada, stevesmusic, tomleemusic, musicredone

JBL 708P (Normally CDN$2780/ea)(Sometimes on sale for CDN$2650/ea) (Sometimes on sale for 10-15%, when certain dealers/resellers offer storewide sale)
- amazon.ca, long-mcquade, avshop, musiccitycanada, economik.com

Genelec 8351B (CDN$4325/ea) (Sometimes on sale for 10-15%, when certain dealers/resellers offer storewide sale)
- Dark Grey: long-mcquade, economik.com, avshop
- Black: moogaudio, avshop, economik.com
- White: avshop

Genelec 8361A (CDN$5350/ea) (Sometimes on sale for 10-15%, when certain dealers/resellers offer storewide sale)
- Dark Grey: long-mcquade, mooqaudio, gsbts, economik
- Black: long-mcquade, gsbts, economik
- White: long-mcquade, gsbts, economik

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In 2020, Dealers/Resellers that had 10-15% off sales during Christmas season of 2020 (sorted A-Z):
- acclaim-music
- avshop
- musiccitycanada
- musiquegagne

In 2021, here's my breakdown of the Christmas deals:
Link

As of March 01, 2021, Genelec increased pricing across their entire lineup for the Canadian market.
8010 went up by 14%, from CDN$350/ea to CDN$400/ea (only CDN$36/ea cheaper than US pricing equivalent)
8030 went up by 13%, from CDN$700/ea to CDN$790/ea (only CDN$92/ea cheaper than US pricing equivalent)
8330 went up by 20%, from CDN$856/ea to CDN$1025/ea (only CDN$110/ea cheaper than US pricing equivalent)
8040 went up by 13%, from CDN$1100/ea to CDN$1250/ea (only CDN$230/ea cheaper than US pricing equivalent)
8351B went up by 17%, from CDN$4300/ea to CDN$5050/ea (actually CDN$5/ea more expensive than US pricing equivalent)

Changelog:
2020-12-30: Added first 11 speakers
2021-01-13: Added resellers that had 10-15% off sales (from Christmas season of 2020).
2021-01-15: Added small photos of each speaker
2021-02-01: Added JBL 708P
2021-04-24: Added disclaimer about Genelec pricing increases
2021-05-17: Added Genelec 8351b
2021-05-30: Added Genelec 8320A
2021-07-11: Added Polk S30 Center, Kef LSX
2021-10-11: JBL 4309
2021-11-11: Genelec 8361A
2021-11-23: Focal Solo6 Be (completely missed this one)

 

[johnp98]

This is amazing! Thanks for doing this!

 

[Linus]

This thread is intended for Canadian shoppers, looking to purchase speakers.


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Highly Recommended Passive Speakers (sorted CDN $-$$):
- Passive speakers that received the "Golfing/Soccer Panther Award"

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Highly Recommended Active Speakers (sorted CDN $-$$):
- Active speakers that received the "Golfing/Soccer Panther Award"
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Too bad Genelec raised their prices, we were getting some really good deals.

 

[dealpapa]

just move to usa. lol

 

[MarcT]

just move to usa. lol

Not so easy to do from Canada, since the US border is closed. But you can just swing around and ease in from the south, no problem!

 

[calvados.boulard]

Sorry to necro an old thread, but this thread is gold. Thank you kind human for putting this together.

 

[sweetchaos]

Give this man an award.

He waited 1,345 days to make a first post, since joining ASR!

 

[calvados.boulard]

Give this man an award.

He waited 1,345 days to make a first post, since joining ASR!

What I lack in number of posts, I have more than made up for in amount learned from you wonderful humans. Thank you all for your insights, knowledge, and love of all things audio.