Month: May 2013

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Hifi in Your Garden

We received a press release from Sonance about an interesting looking hifi set up for use in the garden. The SonArray garden sound system by Sonance comes packaged in a single box with eight horn-shaped SR1 satellites and an underground subwoofer (should keep the moles at bay too).The simple daisy-chained loudspeakers attach to any standard […]

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High End Show Munich 2013 – A Bird’s Eye View. Part 3

Bird: UK slang meaning a woman/wife/girlfriend, synonyms: broad, chick, dame, girl, lass.  ‘Turn it up, bring the noise’  It’s Saturday already so time to pack our bags, eat another huge breakfast and set off for our last day at the show.  The fantastic staff at the NH München Deutscher Kaiser are looking after our bags […]

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High End Munich 2013 – A Bird’s Eye View. Part 2.

You can read the second installment of Linette’s views on the Munich High End show, “A Bird’s Eye View”,  where she’ll be talking about what stood out at the show for her. Brands she discusses include Thoress who make some interesting looking valve amplifiers, German Physiks and their omnidirectional loudspeakers, Vexo amplifiers, Lehmann Audio and […]

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Legacy Audio Aeris Loudspeaker

Legacy Audio, based in Springfield USA, premiered their Aeris loudspeaker to the European market at the Munich High End show 2013. It’s a bold yet elegant looking loudspeaker and is packed with tech’. While touting 24-bit DSP and 1kwatts of internal bass power, the upper portion of Aeris is open-air dipole which the company says […]

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Munich High End 2013 – A Birds Eye View Pt 1.

Bird: UK slang meaning a woman/wife/girlfriend, synonyms: broad, chick, dame, girl, lass. Linette (Mrs Hifi Pig) gives her opinions and perspectives of the Munich High End show in a series of articles written from a woman’s perspective. Find out what she enjoyed on the first day of the Munich High End show in part one […]

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Munich High End 2013 – Show Report Part 1.

Part one of Hifi Pig’s report of the Munich High End 2013 show is now up and live. 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 […]

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Munich High End 2013 – Show Report Part 1

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, […]

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Arcam AVR750 7.1 AV Receiver

 Arcam make some bold claims for their latest AV receiver, the AVR750 7.1 and the specs certainly look impressive. 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) […]

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

At the request of a good few people who we met at the Munich High End show Mrs Hifi Pig, otherwise known as Linette, will 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 […]

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Munich High End 2013 – Newcomers.

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. Our first of many show reports looks at the eight companies chosen by the High End society to represent the […]

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Munich Highend 2013 – Newcomers

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 […]