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