We at Hifi Pig thought this KickStarter project for AirBulb looked really interesting and worth a mention in the Hifi Pig News section despite it not being exactly audiophile. So basically AirBulb is an LED light bulb that has a wireless speaker built in and has Bluetooth so you can beam your music to it […]
Simple Audio, whose little Bluetooth “Go” speaker Hifi Pig reviewed, has officially released Roomplayer+, its new Roomplayer with synchronised music playback, direct NAS support, support for 24/192 uncompressed formats and a host of other new features. The new Roomplayer+ is designed by a group of designers and engineers (originally from Linn Products) who are focussed […]
Music has been an important part of Peter’s life. While he was growing up, his parents always had opera or classical music playing and both his school and his college had world-class choirs. He entered his teens just as new wave was making music interesting again (!) and he was lucky enough to hear/see all […]
KEF has announced that the two-metre high loudspeaker Muon, has undergone a further technical advancement and existing Muon owners who want to take up this enhancement will have a senior KEF engineer flown out to them to undertake the update on site in their listening room. “It was with the development of another iconic flagship […]
“Geek Out asynchronous USB 2.0 DAC and Class A headphone amplifier brings $100,000 audio experience to your pocket” say the company’s press release. We’ve heard a lot about Geek from our readers and friends across the water and so pleased it’s coming to European shores. Geek is a new brand from the people, LH Labs, […]
I thoroughly enjoyed the sheer energy and other-worldliness sci-fi themes of Omen Opus’ Archives album I reviewed a couple of months ago and so was really looking forward to giving this CD a spin. It’s labelled as a two disc EP Album and was released in May 2012 on the brilliantly named Monty Maggot Records. […]
There’s a slew of great disco albums being released at the moment and I reviewed Loleatta Holloway’s “Queen of the Night” only a short while ago – any excuse as I’m quite a fan of this dance music legend and pleased her music is being made available to a new and younger generation. This eponymous album […]
The DAC Box DS from Box Design by Pro-Ject Audio is a feature-filled Digital/Analogue converter with multiple filters, an informative screen and three high-quality connection options. Now, thanks to a free upgrade from Pro-Ject, the DAC Box DS is also capable of handling the increasingly popular DSD (Direct Stream Digital) file formats. DSD DSD is […]
Meridian Audio has announced the availability of three new Meridian DSP Digital Active Loudspeakers – Special Edition DSP8000 SE, DSP7200 SE and DSP5200 SE. 2014 marks the 25th anniversary of the launch of Meridian’s first digital loudspeaker – in fact the first digital loudspeaker in the world – the D600, in 1989. Honouring the 25th […]
Well, this one came as a bit of a shock. After several lineup changes, the temporary hijacking of the band’s material by increasingly egotistical frontman Andrew Stockdale and a break-up which lasted about a month, Wolfmother have pulled a Beyonce. No they haven’t been captured un-photogenically at a Superbowl half-time show, they’ve dropped a surprise […]
Hifi Pig recently introduced a new level of award over and above the Recommended award along with a new points system for reviews. We’ve kept it as simple as possible but we strongly believe that a second independent review of a product that achieves an overall score of 8.5 or above in its first review […]
Alan Wilkes (AKA Vinny Peculiar – his real name is “lame”) is a Salford (NW England) based singer songwriter and “The Root Mull Affect” is a collection of outtakes and remixes picked from 15 years of his recordings and represents his 10th album release. Some will be aware of Vinny Peculiar and he has indeed […]
Skogrand are a Norwegian company that manufacture speaker cables and interconnects from their headquarters near the town of Lillehammer. Danny Worth got to grips with the company’s Centaurus A speaker cables and interconnects. Knut, the owner of the company said this by way of introduction “I am originally – and at the core of my […]
The organisers of the 15 Audio Brighton Hifi show got in touch to ask us to remind Hifi Pig readers that this event will be a free event and will take place over 2 days at the Hilton Brighton Metropole Hotel which is right on the seafront (That will be the one in the pic […]
Colarado based 3beez contacted Hifi Pig to tell us about their new Wax Box 2 music management system for storing , cataloguing and playing music files. “We have had a great response to the Wax Box 1 in the year since its introduction, but many audiophiles told us they wanted higher storage capacity” said 3beez […]
Russ Andrews is upgrading its range of PowerKord mains cables with the new WattGate EVO Evolution range of IEC plugs which they say bring benefits of “enhanced connection to the mains and the resultant improvement in performance”. For a limited time the PowerKords with WattGate EVO plugs will be available at no additional charge. Three […]
Last year at Munich High End we came across and reported on the unusual looking and definitely quirky (to say the least) Vario brand of loudspeakers. They’re all designed to look like faces in a cartoonish kind of way but they will appeal to many and certainly set them selves apart from the usual boxed […]
Last year at Munich High End we came across and reported on the unusual looking and definitely quirky (to say the least) Vario brand of loudspeakers. They’re all designed to look like faces in a cartoonish kind of way but they will appeal to many and certainly set them selves apart from the usual boxed […]
Mark Levinson’s 40th Anniversary No.52 Reference Dual-Monaural Preamplifier is said to be the company’s most accomplished preamplifier to date, blending “sublime levels of build quality and performance with exceptional versatility, ease-of-use and appearance” and is now avaialble in the UK through Karma – AV. The Mark Levinson No.52 is an all-analogue dual-monaural design arranged in […]
Mains cables R US contacted to tell Hifi Pig that they will shortly have available what they are describing as a “game changing design” of stereo interconnect cable with loudspeaker and mains arriving in good time. The new cable is a “totally new and unique patented design of cable which will “completely re-define what’s possible […]
Hifi Pig is delighted to announce that they will be supporting the latest high-end hi-fi show to hit the UK as its exclusive media partner. Cranage Hall Audio Show 2014 promises to be a fantastic day out for all audiophiles and those who just love great music reproduced at its very best. All the exhibitors […]
The interest in the High End 2014 in Munich has been unprecedented: “Every day we are receiving new applications from exhibitors worldwide working in all areas of the industry”, said Managing Director Branko Glisovic. Due to the high demand – 434 exhibitors have already registered – all of hall 2 will now be used as […]
The interest in the High End 2014 in Munich has been unprecedented: “Every day we are receiving new applications from exhibitors worldwide working in all areas of the industry”, said Managing Director Branko Glisovic. Due to the high demand – 434 exhibitors have already registered – all of hall 2 will now be used as […]
Arcam’s new SongBook App offers full UPnP support to the new Arcam airDAC and updates the UPnP streaming for eight of the company’s components which feature Arcam’s advanced network streaming player. Basically this will allow you to control streaming music from a Mac, PC or NAS drive directly from your iPhone/Touch or iPad. The […]
