Author: HifiPig
Tidal Adds ickStream Support
Tidal (expect a Hifi Pig review in the next 24 hours) has announced the integration of its service within the ickStream music platform, which delivers music streaming services to home audio devices. ickStream’s recent support of the Logitech Squeezebox brings TIDAL to the popular device. The latest release of the ickStream app for the Squeezebox […]
Poland Audio Show 2014
Photographs taken at the Poland Audio Show 2014. Thanks to Kris at Fidelity Art for supplying these photographs of the show which is the second biggest in Europe after Munich High-End.
Akiko Audio Introduces Powercord HQ
This new cable is composed of four copper conductors, isolated with polyethylene (XLPE) which the company says has “excellent isolation qualities and much better than the often used PVC”. The HQ (High Quality) cable is double shielded with aluminium foil and a copper braid. There is a double symmetric grounding against EMI/RFI radiation which Akiko […]
IsoTek EVO3 Mosaic Genesis Mains Regenerator
The new EVO3 Mosiac Genesis is a five-way mains conditioning unit in a half-width format, featuring three outlets for front-end source components and preamplifiers and two for high-current amplifiers, subwoofers and the like. It brings together IsoTek’s two “statement technologies” – which already feature separately in the brand’s top-of-range EVO3 Genesis and EVO3 Super Titan. […]
i-box Bluetooth Speaker
i-box, young British tech brand, today unveils the Slix Bluetooth wireless speaker. Small enough to pop in a pocket and robust enough to be carried about (with a standard five-year guarantee to back up that promise), the seriously small and well-specified Slix looks perfect travel companion or an urban audio accessory. Slix has a 2.1 […]
New Multi-Channel Amplifier From Parasound
Parasound has announced the launch of their new ZoneMaster Model 1250, a universal amplifier which can simultaneously power a home theatre surround system and additional zones with independent sources. The ZoneMaster 12-channel power amplifier has connections for 24 speakers combined with 2-ohm stability, allowing the use of two speakers per channel. It’s rated at 12×50 […]
Various – Millions Like Us “The Story Of The Mod Revival 1977-1989”
Millions Like Us is « The Story Of The Mod Revival 1977 -1989 » and it’s a wonderfully exuberant blast of tunes, many of which I know from my teens and some which are new to me. I was ten in 1977 but the mod revival was in full flow by the time I was in my […]
Various Artists – The Eve Folk Recordings
The music media in the early to mid-sixties were alive with talk of a « folk boom » in the UK and indeed there was a burgeoning number of folk clubs open every night of the week, to the point that pretty much every town of any size had one. I remember as late as the early […]
Free Music From Linn This Xmas
Linn is giving away a great gift to all music lovers this Christmas with the chance to download a free daily track from a host of major Linn artists – in Studio Master quality, the highest download quality available. From 1st December Linn’s online advent calendar will offer 24 days of free downloads, giving everybody […]
Furutech Launch New SK-III Electrostatic Brush
Japanese cable and accessories company Furutech launch the new SK-III electrostatic brush, designed to remove unwanted static charge from a range of audio-visual media, enhancing sound and picture quality. Originally developed by SFC of Japan, the patented SK-III electrostatic brush is a new and improved version of the earlier SK-II and has already proved to […]
String Suspension Concept (SSC) Record Point420
The guys at NuNu Distribution got in touch to tell us about the SSC Record Point 420 which is the new addition to the SSC range and can be used with most record players and aims to provide a good contact between the record and the platter and stabilise the record which the company say […]
Linn Exakt Demo In Paris
As we were in Paris last weekend visiting the Haute Fidélité show, Linn invited us along to Audio Synthèse, a high-end retailer in the city, to take a listen to the new Linn Exakt system. How could we refuse! I’m sure most folk will be well aware of the Linn brand and I for one […]
Linn Exakt Demo
As we were in Paris last weekend visiting the Haute Fidélité show, Linn invited us along to Audio Synthèse, a high-end retailer in the city, to take a listen to the new Linn Exakt system. How could we refuse!
UK Launch Of Audio Research G Series Amplifiers
Audio Research marks the UK launch of its new G Series components with an exclusive event at KJ West One, the high-end audio retailer based in Central London. Named in homage to Galileo, the G Series consists of three amplifiers: the GSPre preamplifier, GS150 power amplifier and, arriving a little further down the line, the GSi75 […]
Noble Announce K10 IEMS at £999
Noble Audio has launched a universal-fit version of its flagship 10-driver in-ear monitor (IEM). The new K10 (£999) follows the success of the range-topping custom-fit model and is now available as a handcrafted IEM in Noble’s signature universal form factor. The K10 (Kaiser 10) is a ten-armature IEM and is a low- impedance four-way design […]
Aulalic Announces TIDAL Integration
Auralic North America Inc. and its parent company, Auralic Limited, have announced that TIDAL, the first lossless music streaming service with HD music videos and curated editorial, has been integrated in their ARIES Streamer Bridge. AURALiC’s Lightning streaming is the industry’s first whole-house, high-resolution streaming solution that supports music playback up to Double-Rate DSD and DXD formats. The ARIES, the first […]
Salon Haute Fidélité Paris 2014
The Haute Fidélité show in Paris is a must attend for us here at Hifi Pig. It’s a nice little show that is friendly, well attended and only four hours from us by rail. This year’s show was a good event too with there being plenty of punters through the door and a good and […]
Mark Levinson’s No 585 Integrated Amplifier
The No 585 is engineered to be the finest integrated amplifier ever created by Mark Levinson and is the first of a new generation of products to be designed at HARMAN’s new state-of-the-art engineering facility located in Shelton, Connecticut. It combines versatility with a Class AB amplifier delivering 200 watts per channel into 8 ohms […]
Bryan Adams – Tracks of My Years (Deluxe Edition)
14 covers (10 on the normal version) and two original tunes, one penned in partnership with Jim Vallance and the other with Gretchen Peters ( this only on the Deluxe Edition) on this, the twelfth studio album from Canadian rocker Bryan Adams has tracks from writers such as Lennon and McCartney (Any Time At All), […]
Crystal Acoustics Teevy 6
Crystal Acoustics has announced the launch of the Teevy 6, part of the new Reference Wireless Series of speakers from Crystal Acoustics, and utilises the new WiSound technology to create what the company’s press release describes as “an incredibly dispersive, dynamic and consistent audio delivery throughout every part of the room”. The ‘WiSound’ design uses […]
Caroll Vanwelden – Shakespeare Sonnets 2
Caroll Vanwelden is a Belgian singer and a graduate of the London Guildhall School of Music and Drama, but only after having passed her engineering degree in Brussels. Shakespeare Sonnets 2 is, needless to say, the second album of Vanweldens where she puts the bard’s sonnets to music. It’s out now on Jazznarts and my […]
