“The Cartridge Man is Len Gregory and he’s been making cartridges for a good number of years now. He used to produce a cartridge based on the AKG P8ES, but as AKG ceased production and were eventually bought this eventually meant that Len’s supply of components dried up. Around the same time (twenty-ish years ago) […]
Forming part of the bijou Chordette range, the new Qute EX adds a new chipset and circuit board which enables decoding at up to 384kHz PCM and DSD 128 over USB (against the QuteHD’s 192kHz PCM and DSD 64). Existing QuteHD DACs can be upgraded with the new chipset and board at the factory for […]
JoSound Cartouche loudspeakers use a Voxativ driver and an innovative bamboo construction that makes these €22 000 loudspeakers really stand out from the crowd. “We first came across the JoSound range of loudspeakers twelve months or so ago when we attended the Paris Hifi and Home Cinema Salon and were very impressed with what we […]
Norwegian-based manufacturer and quirkily named QNKTC (Quantization Noise Killed The Cat!) has unveiled its new competitively priced DAC, the £110 AB-1.2. The device has is roots in an open source project, as a hardware implementation of the Audio Widget venture. The project was started by an online group who wanted to develop the very best […]
Brand new to me but a staggering forty five years old Elmer Gantry’s Velvet Opera’s eponymous album is enjoying a re-release on Grapefruit Records and it’s a really entertaining listen indeed. Starting out as an R&B/Soul band called the Five Proud Walkers, EGVO took a pretty dramatic change in direction in 1967 after supporting Pink […]
Hifi Pig announced the launch of these new loudspeaker cables from Atlas way back in June and here Jerry takes a listen to them and gives his impressions of how they perform in his system. “The cables appear well made and very easy to use – the “Z-plugs” (4mm banana) on the set of cables […]
At the top of the Tellurium Q range the Black Diamond USB cable comes in at £636 for a 1 metre length. Dan gives it a serous listen and see if it reaches muster. “The Black Diamond, as all other Tellurium products, doesn’t come accompanied with a huge white paper of techno-babble, it simply comes […]
“So much to see here in the darkness…” Australia (and indeed the world) is enjoying a wealth of heavy music right now. Metalcore, new-school thrash, death and progressive metal are all thriving and our newsfeeds are chock full of new releases, gigs, tours, mind boggling arrays of sub-genres and all manner of heavy goodness. Yep, […]
Kathryn Williams is Liverpool-born but resides in the fine city of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Crown Electric, the company Elvis used to drive for before finding fame, is her tenth album and her first solo record in four years. The album is the distillation of over sixty songs that were narrowed down to the thirteen we hear on […]
Keith Monks today announced that the new discOveryOne Record Cleaner had started production in the UK. Jon Monks, son of the founder, Keith, will be demonstrating the discOveryOne Record Cleaner during the Rocky Mountain Audio Fest. Cleaning is a simple process of applying cleaning fluid and cleaning brush manually in the case of the standard […]
The next generation of Motive speakers from Neat Acoustics, the SX series, will be demonstrated for the first time in Atrium Room 422 of the Denver Marriott Tech Center Hotel at RMAF. The first and most obvious change from original to SX is to the tweeter. A newly designed, aluminium dome that is black anodised […]
If you’re new to Drugstore (and I am) then here’s a brief history lesson. They’re labelled as a dream pop (whatever that is) band who formed in 1993 and debuted with an eponymous album which reached 31 in the UK charts…their second album from 1998, “White Magic for Lovers”, reached number 45. In total they’ve […]
Big Sexy Noise is made up of Lydia Lunch, James Johnston and Ian White of Gallon Drunk fame they offer an all out brutal attack on the senses with this double album – the band’s last studio album from 2011 and a live recording made in Italy. The studio album “Trust the Witch” is proper […]
Meridian Audio has announced the introduction of their Distributor 3, a seamless way of distributing audio from a central location to three additional “zones”. A zone can be built from a pair of DSP loudspeakers up to a full entertainment system with local sources. Each zone can be fed a discrete audio signal as well […]
When a manufacturer baptises a new audio component in honour of a Greek goddess whose name literally means “beautiful voice” and follows that up with a five-figure price tag, this represents a definite promise and considerable commitment on their part… but that’s just what Gryphon have done. Premiered in late prototype form at the Munich […]
Bryston got in touch with us to let us know what they would be exhibiting at the Rocky Mountain Audio Fest this coming weekend and here it is. Loudspeakers will be in the shape of Brystons new Model T Signatures and these will be fed with a pair of S8BSST thousand Watt amplifiers. BP26 preamp […]
Norbert Lehmann is the CEO of Lehmann Audio in Germany, a company that produces headphone amps, phono stages and an amplifier as well as pro audio equipment. He is a graduate in audio engineering and is a keen guitarist.
Goldfrapp have spent the past decade teasing us. Their 2002 debut ‘Felt Mountain’ is rightly regarded as indispensable, but since then the London duo have bounced uneasily between electro-pop, ambient melancholia and trip-hop without ever quite delivering the baroque masterpiece we know they’re capable of. Frustrating, yes, but on the strength of the leaked single […]
Reference Fidelity Components (UK) has expanded its’ services to include full loudspeaker refurbishment including: crossover refurbishment and up-grading services driver replacement internal re-wiring internal damping/wadding improvements cabinet refurbishment new cabinet construction external crossover conversions Paul from RFC commented “There are many loudspeakers from several decades ago which properly fettled are a match for many modern […]
DEQX Pty Ltd, manufacturers of preamp processors providing speaker calibration, crossover and room compensation will be exhibiting at RMAF with their DEQX PreMate. The PreMate delivers the same speaker and room calibration features as the company’s DEQX Mate plus the preamp functions of the HDP-4. DEQX preamp/processors calibrate your space by removing speaker distortion with […]
Raven Audio, a manufacturer of tube preamplifiers, integrated, stereo and monoblock amplifiers will be exhibiting their Silhouette Reference Preamplifier and Silhouette Reference monoblocks driving Joseph Audio Perspective speakers, with a Mytek Stereo192-DSD USB DAC, a Hanss Acoustics T20 turntable with a SoundSmith high-output Paua cartridge, and all Cardas cabling at RMAF this year.. The Silhouette […]
A new Dutch hifi brand arrived on the market, called Simply Audio whose core business of is producing high quality Audio Cables. Simply Audio’s Cadenza series of cables is made of silver and includes loudspeaker cables, two RCA interconnects and a digital cable. Termination is with Audio Note RCA’s or bananas but if clients prefer […]
UK loudspeaker manufacturer KEF held a series of events between October 1st and 7th called “KEF Week” and we thought it only right that we should send out a Hifi Pig scout to take a look at one of the events at Loud and Clear in Edinburgh.