Munich High End 2013 – Show Report Part 1.

13. May 2013 · Write a comment · Categories: Hifi News · Tags: ,

Part one of Hifi Pig’s report of the Munich High End 2013 show is now up and Munich_High_endlive. We will be publishing lots more around the show with dozens of reports of what we saw and what we heard so keep popping back to the site.

We think that giving the reports out in bite size chunks is preferable to one long piece and we hope you enjoy.

Once we finished all the write ups we will publish a slideshow of all the photographs (over 500) that we took at the show itself.

Munich High End 2013 Show report part 1

 

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Munich High End 2013 – Show Report Part 1

13. May 2013 · 2 comments · Categories: Hifi Shows, Industry Insider · Tags:

For those of you that don’t know Munich High End is the hifi show to attend if you are a manufacturer wanting to get your products noticed in Europe. It’s very well attended and takes place at Munich’s MOC over 4 days every year. Hifi Pig were there and we have lots of photographs, comments, interviews and much more that we’re sure you’ll enjoy.  The show is so big that it would be impossible to see every room and every exhibitor but we really did try – if we missed you out then we are sorry and we’ll make sure we come along next year and see you. This is part one but we have many many more parts to add and will drip feed them over the coming week so keep checking back for all the latest from the Munich High end 2013! More »

Arcam AVR750 7.1 AV Receiver

13. May 2013 · Write a comment · Categories: Hifi News · Tags: ,

 Arcam make some bold claims for their latest AV receiver, the AVR750 7.1 and the specs certainly look impressive.arcam-avr750-advance They launched the new receiver at the Munich High End show and we went along to have a bit of a listen in what was definitely one of the most lively rooms there.

• 4K (UHD) video compatible including upscaling

• 7 HDMI inputs,  2 HDMI outputs, ARC compatible

• Auto setup with room  correction

• Class G power  amplification

• On board PSU for rSeries accessories

• Ethernet, RS232  and  IR control

• Free  iOS control app

Charlie Brennan the MD of Arcam says the followint about it.

“The AVR750 is, quite simply,  the  highest performing AV receiver Arcam has  ever made. The  AVR750 is an audiophile product by any measure. Equally at home with high resolution surround sound or two-channel music, the  AVR750 delivers stunning realism with everything from heavy-weight blockbusters to your favourite concert video.

The power amplifiers within the  AVR750 are perhaps the  finest ever seen within any AV receiver. Power delivery is both clean and  tight  against a background noise level that is astoundingly low. Listeners can  expect to be enthralled from the  opening sequence to the  final encore!”

We had a listen to the new receiver at Munich High End show on Saturday and, whilst we’re not usually great fans of A|V set ups, were very impressed with its performance through some KEF E series loudspeakers. You can read more in due course when we publish the Munich High End show reports in full.

Price £4000.

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Munich High End 2013 – Mrs Hifi Pig Has a New Love!

12. May 2013 · 1 comment · Categories: Hifi News

At the request of a good few people who we met at the Munich High End show Mrs Hifi Pig, otherwise known as Linette, Munich_High_endwill be taking a greater role in writing for Hifi Pig.

Here she tells her story of her first experience of the Avantgarde Trios and six basshorns. She reckons it was a bit of a religious experience.

Read the full report about what she has to say about the Avantgarde Trios and the six bass horns

 

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Avantgarde Acoustic at the Munich High End 2013 show: TemperTantrums and Trios

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I have spent the last 3 months working myself into such a state of excitement about getting to grips with some Trios at the show that by the time we got there I was as uncontrollable as a fractious toddler who doesn’t know whether to wee themselves or throw their haribo on the floor in a tantrum!

I have lusted after these speakers for some time, I’ve seen/heard their smaller siblings but I want to get up close and personal with the big, bad trios and their full set of six bass horns; More »

Munich High End 2013 – Newcomers.

12. May 2013 · 1 comment · Categories: Hifi News · Tags:

Hifi Pig have just spent the last few days at the Munich High End show which if you didn’t know is a huge show showcasing the whole gamut of Hifi available in the world today. OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA

Our first of many show reports looks at the eight companies chosen by the High End society to represent the newcomers – or new kids on the block of the hifi world

Hifi Pig knows what it’s like to be a new company in the hifi world and so when we heard that the organisers of this years Munich High End show would be offering a handful of new hifi manufacturing companies the opportunity to display their wares we thought we would also lend our support by giving them a little more of the limelight in the pages of Hifi Pig.

The companies chosen were: Pure Audio Project, Manufacture le Son, Rike Audio, Lab 12, Black Pearls Audio, Schuch Tronic, BeatOn and Erzetich Audio. Read more about the Newcomers to Munich High End 2013

 

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Munich Highend 2013 – Newcomers

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Munich High End 2013 – Newcomers

Hifi Pig knows what it’s like to be a new company in the hifi world and so when we heard that the organisers of this years Munich High End show would be offering a handful of new hifi manufacturing companies the opportunity to display their wares we thought we would also lend our support by giving them a little more of the limelight in the pages of Hifi Pig.

The companies chosen were: Pure Audio Project, Manufacture le Son, Rike Audio, Lab 12, Black Pearls Audio, Schuch Tronic, BeatOn and Erzetich Audio. More »

Ghost – Infestissumam

06. May 2013 · Write a comment · Categories: Album Reviews · Tags:

No names, no faces, no identities, a ghoulishly papal stage presence & 2 albums….and we have Sweden’s Ghost.  There’s been much hype surrounding their sophomore effort Infestissumam (Latin for hostile), and none of it appears to be self-propagated.  The metal community seems to have gone bananas over it for whatever reason and praise for them/it has spread like wildfire on the back of their unique live shows.

So what’s a reviewer to do when presented with “the next big thing”?  Why, pick it up and put it to the critical sword of course!

First of all…this album is barely what I’d call metal.   There are elements of it; a couple of chugging Metallica-esque riffs here and there and occultist lyrical themes, but for a band which has been erroneously (and presumably unwillingly) branded as “Doom Metal”  this album has some real surprises in store.

The record opens with the short title track….beginning with some A capella vocal harmonies which border on Gregorian chants….(a theme that is repeated throughout the album at various stages), but it quickly morphs into the pulsating atmospheric hard rock of  “Per Aspera ad Inferi”.  More »

Flaming Lips -The Terror

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Any new release from The Flaming Lips is sure to be met with a degree of anticipation from critics and fans;  they’ve recently put on some spectacular live shows and their catalogue of work contains some absolute classics.   So when a band with their kind of reputation releases an album called “The Terror” you can’t help but be intrigued about what sonic madness it might contain.

The Terror is a concept album and getting your head around the lyrical theme is fairly important.  Basically, the terror which Wayne Coyne sings about is the fear of life without love.  That no matter the terrible circumstances you may be in, life goes on….and that is the terror:  continued existence.  This is very personal to Coyne as he recently split with his partner of 25 years, so you’d expect this record to be harrowing and representative of its title wouldn’t you? More »

Burson Timekeeper Amplifier

06. May 2013 · Write a comment · Categories: Hifi News, Uncategorized · Tags: ,

 

Burson have announced a June launch for their Timekeeper amplifier. It is an 80W per channel Class-AB stereo Timekeepers_x2_45d_front(W)power amp which can be bridged into a 240W mono block and is the same size as the company’s Conductor preamplifier.

There is a growing community of desktop audiophiles and the Timekeeper is very much aimed at this group of users. Burson say that these audiophiles want “high-end equipment that are desktop friendly and given the compact size of the Timekeeper amplifier they will not be disappointed”.

 

The Timekeeper looks to be a versatile bit of kit and you can have it running in stereo, then upgrade to 2 Timekeepers as you move from a desktop system to large room listening and from RCA systems to XLR systems.

 

Every bit of the Timekeeper is custom designed and built to achieve Burson’s “definition of perfection”.

Price $2600

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TCI Mamba Silver-Plated Audio Interconnect Cables

02. May 2013 · Write a comment · Categories: Hifi News

Designed and made in the UK, by True Colours Industries, the new TCI Mamba Stereo Hi-Fi Interconnect, is said totci-mamba-stereo-1 be a serious performance cable at a relatively affordable price.

The Mamba features a bi-axial shielded construction and is terminated with TCI True-Plug™ gold-plated RCA phono plugs in a pseudo-balanced configuration.

It is also available in a fully balanced configuration, terminated with high-quality XLR connectors featuring gold-plated contacts.

Design

– 2-Core Silver-plated OFC cores with Teflon insulation

– Bi-axial shielded construction

– 100% Foil with 16 way braid screen

– Fully wrapped in Red PVC insulation 

– Lead free Silver soldered contacts

– TCI True-Plug™ RCA phono plug

– High quality XLR plugs

Prices

RCA terminated: 0.6m £175, 1.0m £200, extra 0.5m £30

XLR terminated: 0.6m £225, 1.0m £250, extra 0.5m £30

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Audio4Soul Xtreme 16

02. May 2013 · Write a comment · Categories: Amplifiers, D to A Converters · Tags: , ,

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