Author: HifiPig

Hifi News

Hifi Pig Advent Calendar DAY 8

Day eight of Hif Pig’s Advent Calendar advertising promotion focuses on Music First. “The Music First Audio passive preamplifier was conceived to position itself at the very heart of a true high-end hi-fi system. A preamplifier’s role is relatively simple, it provides for source selection (recordings and transmissions of all types) and enables the listener to […]

Hifi News

Hifi Pig Advent Calendar DAY 7

Day seven of Hif Pig’s Advent Calendar advertising promotion focuses on Electromod and some of the products they sell such as Hi-fiMan, Schiit and Synergistic Research. “Electromod was started with excitement and enthusiasm for audio equipment which we still feel we have today. For this is one of the reasons we offer brands such as Hifi-Man, […]

Advent Calendar

Electromod

Advertising Promotion Day Seven of Hifi Pig’s Advent Calendar advertising promotion focuses on Hifi-Man HE560 Headphones. Hifi-Man HE-560 headphone is different in that it is a orthodynamic headphone that uses planar magnetic or orthodynamic technology, which unlike cone drivers, are flat, very thin plastic mem- branes, on which is attached a thin conductor. The membrane […]

Hifi News

Meridian Announce Explorer2 DAC

Meridian Audio has announced Explorer2 a portable, compact and rugged USB including compatibility with MQA ‘Master Quality Authenticated’ lossless audio files. Building on the original Explorer – the Cambridgeshire-based company’s debut portable DAC – the new model features a significantly more powerful DSP capability than its predecessor, enabling Explorer2 to decode and render the MQA […]

Advent Calendar

HIGHRESAUDIO

Advertising Promotion About HIGHRESAUDIO HIGHRESAUDIO is a high-resolution music download service offering a diverse catalog of music in Studio Master-Quality. HIGHRESAUDIO is the perfect companion for audiophiles, music lovers and digital audio systems and anywhere else that pure sound quality matters. HIGHRESAUDIO is founded by a team of experienced, visionary and enthusiastic music specialists and […]

Hifi News

Hifi Pig Advent Calendar DAY 6

Day six of Hif Pig’s Advent Calendar advertising promotion focuses on HIGHRESAUDIO the online site where you can buy high resolution music files. “HIGHRESAUDIO is a high-resolution music download service offering a diverse catalog of music in Studio Master-Quality. HIGHRESAUDIO is the perfect companion for audiophiles, music lovers and digital audio systems and anywhere else that […]

Hifi News

Hifi Pig Advent Calendar DAY 5

Day Five of Hif Pig’s Advent Calendar advertising promotion focuses on some gift ideas from the guys at Vinyl Passion and The Missing Link. “We have had a very busy and interesting year creating a new range of Turn Table upgrades, building relations with new dealers and distributors & launching our new website for all […]

Advent Calendar

The Missing Link and Vinyl Passion

Advertising Promotion Very Best Wishes to All for a Happy Christmas and Wonderful New Year from everyone at The Missing Link & Vinyl Passion We have had a very busy and interesting year creating a new range of Turn Table upgrades, building relations with new dealers and distributors & launching our new website for all […]

Hifi News

Musical Fidelity Merlin 1

Everybody loves vinyl, or so it would seem. Sales of vinyl records hit an 18-year high in the past 12 months with forecasts of more than 1.2 million discs sold by the end of 2014. Now Musical Fidelity has created the Merlin 1 system – “the first digital streaming system that has been designed from […]

Hifi News

Cary Audio “Digital Music Centers”

Cary Audio’s new DMC-600 and DMC-600SE represent the company’s “best digital products yet”. These “Digital Music Centers” are designed for traditionalists as well as new-age music lovers so you can continue to enjoy your CD collection while exploring the virtues of high resolution & super high resolution Asynchronous USB computer audio. Both the DMC-600 and […]

Hifi News

Melco Music Libraries

Melco, the audiophile division of leading Japanese computer peripheral company Buffalo Technology, has announced the launch of its Digital Music Library range with its first two products – the N1A and N1Z. Featuring audiophile-grade components and construction combined with unique data transfer and protection software that requires no network setup, Melco Music Libraries (MML) are […]

Advent Calendar

Henry Audio USB DAC 128 mkII.

 Advertising Promotion Henry Audio is a bit of an oddball in the world of HiFi. What is now a very well received and good sounding DAC actually started out as a DIY project. Børge Strand-Bergesen, the Norwegian founder of Henry Audio, has been working on a hi-end CD player for most of his adult life. […]

Hifi News

Hifi Pig Advent Calendar DAY 4

Day Four of Hif Pig’s Advent Calendar advertising promotion focuses on the Henry Audio 128 MkII Asyncronous USB portable DAC. “The purpose of the Henry Audio USB DAC 128 mkII is to show music lovers just how good modern, computer-stored audio can sound. If you care enough about your music to own a stereo kit, and want […]

Hifi News Uncategorized

The Bellagio Conquest Black King Turntable

The press release that has just landed on our desktop here at Hifi Pig says that “The Bellagio Conquest Black King is the limited edition, ultimate evolution of the best turntable ever designed by Gold Note featuring some great innovations adding the unique technical details of the Bellagio Conquest introduced during the end of 2013”. […]

Hifi News

Hifi Pig Advent Calendar DAY 3

Day Two of Hifi Pig’s Advent Calendar advertising promotion has Tellurium Q wishing Hifi Pig readers a Merry Christmas and highlighting some of the products for which they have been awarded “Product of the Year” in various publications. “All the staff at Tellurium Q would like to wish Hifi Pig readers, all our customers, dealers and distributors a happy […]

Advent Calendar

Happy Christmas From Tellurium Q

Advertising Promotion All the staff at Tellurium Q would like to wish Hifi Pig readers, all our customers, dealers and distributors a happy Christmas and hope you all have a fantastic New Year.  We have been especially lucky this year in receiving product of the year awards for six individual products throughout our range from entry […]

Hifi News

Primare Add aptX Bluetooth Upgrade

Primare has produced an aptX Bluetooth upgrade for their PRE60 preamplifier, NP30 network player and the MM30 equipped network streaming versions of the I32 integrated amplifier and PRE32 pre-amplifier. The Bluetooth Upgrade takes the form of a small internal circuit board and external antenna which installs easily, the threaded antenna input replacing the FM/DAB terminal […]

Advent Calendar

Tellurium Q Blue Range Speaker Cables.

  Advertising Promotion The Blue was specifically designed for dealers and customers to be able to terminate themselves if you choose to. It has been the entry level cable for a few years now and still getting awards for its performance. As a recent review put it: “The Blue Speaker cable is a good example […]

Hifi News

Hifi Pig Advent Calendar DAY 2

Day Two of Hifi Pig’s Advent Calendar advertising promotion focuses on Tellurium Q’s Blue range of Loudspeaker cables.  “The Blue was specifically designed for dealers and customers to be able to terminate themselves if you choose to. It has been the entry level cable for a few years now and still getting awards for its performance. As […]

Hifi News

Timestep M10-DP Dual Arm Mounting Plate

Dartmouth-based Timestep have a long association with premium turntable manufacturers SME and have announced the M10-DP dual tonearm mounting plate for the SME Model 10 turntable. The continued resurgence of demand for vinyl LPs is bringing with it a renewed appreciation of mono recordings. For serious collectors and music lovers, a dedicated mono cartridge is […]

Hifi News

ATC To Launch Active SCM40A Loudspeaker At CES

Featuring wholly ATC designed and built drivers and amplifiers, the new SCM40A system is an active version of the SCM40 three-way floor standing speaker, launched in late 2013. The SCM40A utilises ATC’s soft dome dual-suspension SH25-76 tweeter together with the company’s signature 75mm soft dome mid-range and a 164mm short coil/long gap (under-hung) bass unit. […]

Hifi News

Hifi Pig Advent Calendar DAY 1

Day One of Hifi Pig’s Advent Calendar advertising promotion focuses on Tellurium Q’s innovative System Enhancement CD.  “Moving forward to this year, 2014 Tellurium Q were asked if a distributor could source burn in discs to provide with a few of the very highest end cables. Tellurium Q talked with a producer but long story cut […]

Advent Calendar

Why use a system CD?

Advertising Promotion A Little history first: Way back in 2002 Simon (who runs a small studio that Tellurium Q run early stage cable tests) and Geoff (a Director at Tellurium Q) where working on various audio phenomena and testing them to see how effective they were. One such project was sound influence on meditative brain […]