Month: January 2013

Hifi News

Behind the Brands

Hifi Pig is delighted to announce the latest addition to the ever growing content of the website. As part of the team’s ongoing desire to bring you the latest news and reviews we have today launched the “Behind The Brand” series of interviews. In this series of interviews we will be looking at how the […]

Behind the Brands Industry Insider

Tufan Hashemi of Roksan Audio

Tufan Hashemi is Managing Director of Roksan Audio, the company that brought the audiophile community the Xerxes turntable in the mid 1980. The company still produces a version of the Xerxes turntable (The Xerxes .20 Plus) as well as a host of other products including amplifiers, cartridges, tonearms, CD Players, loudspeakers and a tuner. The […]

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Audio Research Reference DAC Digital Media Bridge

The Reference DAC Digital Media Bridge connects nearly all forms of digital media to a centralized unit with “exceptional digital to-analogue processing”, the same vacuum tube analogue stage and power supply as the Reference 5 SE, and an intuitive, easy to use display interface. The Reference DAC builds on the sonic performance of the DAC8, […]

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CES High-End Audio Part 3

Part 3 of the CES photographs series is now uploaded with photographs of high-end audio and hifi from Cary, VAC, Devore Fidelity, MBL, Acoustic Plan, Dynaudio, Moon Audio. Copland, Yamamoto Sound Craft and many more high end brands. Make sure you also check out parts 1 and 2 for lots more photographs of High-end hifi […]

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CES 2013 Photographs

Parts 1 and 2 of the CES Show Coverage. Parts 3 and 4 will follow tomorrow. Absolutely loads and loads of great photographs of High-end audio and Hifi exhibited at the CES 2013 show for you to drool over.  

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Musical Fidelity Launch M1 SDAC

Musical Fidelity have announced the release of the M1 SDAC. The new box of tricks is a DAC (and ADC), preamplifier, headphone amp and apt-X.Bluetooth receiver and will retail in the UK for £799. The M1 SDAC looks to be well catered for with connectivity having 2 Coax inputs, a AES/EBU balanced input and a […]

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Audio Pro “Allroom Air One” Loudspeaker

Audio Pro, the specialist loudspeaker company from Sweden has announced the latest addition to its wireless multi-room audio range – Allroom Air One, a single stereo speaker that combines Apple Airplay and DNLA compatibility with modern leather-covered Scandinavian style. Additionally, Audio Pro’s ‘Direct Link’ feature allows for users without a wireless network to stream direct […]

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Mark Levinson № 52 Reference Dual-Monaural Preamplifier

Celebrating the 40th Anniversary of the Mark Levinson brand the № 52 Reference Dual-Monaural Preamplifier has been announced. The № 52 is an all-analogue, true dual-monaural design with a two-chassis configuration that separates the analogue audio circuitry from the control section to maintain the “purest signal paths possible”. It provides a comprehensive complement of inputs […]

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JBL S3900 Announced

Harman’s JBL announce the introduction of its S3900 loudspeaker, a three-way floorstanding tower that utilises professional-grade drivers and components in a dual 10-inch-woofer design. “We designed the S3900 to be slimmer and easier to fit into a wider range of rooms, yet still deliver high-quality music and theater reproduction,” said Jim Garrett, Director of Marketing […]

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Cabridge Audio Azur 752BD Universal Disc Spinner

Cambridge Audio have announced the launch of their latest universal disc player – it spins pretty much every disc format out there including Blu-ray, DVD, CD, SACD etc. The new Cambridge Audio disc spinner also plays just about any digital file, and can access network streaming services too. The 752BD can access drives, laptops and […]

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Timestep T-01MC Phono Stage

Timestep are not your average hi-fi manufacturer, they are also internationally renowned designers and manufacturers of state-of-the-art weather satellite systems of all things and now Timestep have announced the launch of the new T-01MC moving coil phono stage. The T-01MC is a minimalist design, avoiding any unnecessary switching that would “introduce extra contacts and therefore […]

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New Canor TP134 Integrated Amplifier

Hi-Fi distributor Sound Fowndations has announced the addition of the CANOR TP134 valve amplifier to its portfolio of high quality audio components. The CANOR TP134 is a high quality stereo integrated amplifier that uses EL34 output valves to generate 35 watts per channel operating in pure class A up to 10 watts per channel. The […]

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Yamamoto HA-03 Headphone Amplifier

Hifi Pig reported on the Yamamoto YDA-02 DAC way back in March of 2012 and now the company has announced a headphone amplifier to add their range of high end audio kit. The Yamamoto HA-03 uses two of the C3M valve from Siemens and a very simple circuit design to deliver upto 1.4 watts per […]