T Rex – Electric Warrior
Fearing that the world is heading to hell in a handcart, John Scott takes refuge in T Rex’s Electric Warrior.
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Chord Electronics Hugo TT DAC/Headphone Amp
Dan Worth has a listen to the £3000 Chord Hugo TT for Hifi Pig.
Clones Audio Announce Shaar
Clones Audio have been in touch to let us know abut their latest product. The SHAAR is an audiophile grade PCIe to USB audio gateway. Ultra low noise regulators for digital chips, clock, USB power. Power input noise filters. Extreme low noise master clock module with the precision 1ppm TCXO. -USB portUSB 3.0 controller -Support […]
EAT C Major Turntable Arrives Stateside
VANA, Ltd. has announced that the European Audio Team C-Major turntable, the company’s first complete analogue playback solution, is available now through a carefully selected network of US dealers. The C-Major turntable has been engineered and manufactured in Prague to deliver superb performance with a sleek “super-flat” industrial design and comes ready to play right […]
Code Acoustics Launch At North West Audio Show
Code Acoustics will be launching their brand new ‘SYSTEM-1’ at the North West Audio Show – Sunday 26th June 2016, Cranage Hall AND Wychwood Park Cheshire. . This consists of TOP-1 and BASS-1, which combine to create a high quality 3-way speaker, and CONTROL-1: A 6-channel amplifier, pre-amp and DSP crossover unit rolled into one box. […]
Dean’s Top Ten Records Of All Time – North West Audio Show
Following the success of his talk about vinyl at last year’s show, Dean Brissett – record Guru – will be presenting his Top 10 records of all time at this year’s North West Audio Show taking place on the Sunday 26th June 2016 at Cranage Hall AND Wychwood Park Cheshire. . The presentation will take place in Baird […]
NuNu Expand NuForce Audio Range Across UK
NuNu Distribution Ltd and Optoma launch a new partnership today to expand the NuForce audio range across the UK. Anne Duhig-Reader, Managing Director of NuNu Distribution said: “We pride ourselves on supplying only the best audio brands and Optoma NuForce has a great reputation borne out by the glowing reviews the products receive. Combining our […]
Moon Néo Ace Lands In UK
The Nēo ACE from Moon is “A Complete Experience of musical ecstasy” says the company’s press release. The all-in-one ACE is an integrated amplifier and streaming DAC music player so all you need do is simply hook up a pair of speakers, connect to the internet and play. The ACE features Moon’s MiND* control system […]
Frantique (BBR)
DISCO is big at Hifi Pig Towers and many a Saturday night is spent strutting our stuff around the listening room…there’s even talk of us getting a mirror-ball. So what better than this album by all girl three piece that had a huge hits in ’79 with Strut Your Funky Stuff (you’ll know it of […]
I’m A Freak, Baby : A Journey Through The British Heavy Psych And Hard Rock Underground Scene 1968-72 (Cherry Red)
Out on the 29th July I’m A Freak Baby is really going to appeal to a certain kind of person…and I count myself in with this lot. As a teen I had hair down my back, wore an Afghan coat, stank of patchouli oil and listened to psych rock and heavy rock from the late […]
SOtM Announce $450 Streamer
sMS-200 is a new generation of mini network player with built in ‘Media Player Board’ developed by SOtM that will cost $450. sMS-200 has a dedicated ARM processor board that has been developed for only audio. SOtM developed the product just for audio sound performance, getting rid of all unnecessary features concentrating on the high […]
Grandinote Proemio Preamplifier and Silva Power Amplifier
At £14500 for the pair, the Grandinote Proemio preamp and Silva power amplifier are far from bargain basement fodder, but do they warrant such a price-tag? Stuart Smith finds out.
Let’s Eat Grandma – I, Gemini (Transgressive Records)
You may have recently read about two girls from Norfolk who look uncannily similar but are, in fact, unrelated. Rosa and Jenny are both 17, met when they were 4 years’ old and have been inseparable ever since. Together, they make music under the moniker Let’s Eat Grandma. Whether or not you enjoy their debut album […]
Veracity Audio Mystra DAC
UK based Veracity Audio’s Mystra is a dual mono design with dual DAC architecture. The dedicated 24bit dual mono, multi-bit conversion handles PCM files without sample rate change and the stand-alone ∆Σ DAC/reconstruction filter offers playback of DSD64 and DSD128 natively without digital processing. The DAC features auto-switching with incoming signal file format, directing DSD […]
Miles Showell Of Abbey Road Interview
We at Hifi Pig recently bought and absolutely raved about the half speed master version of the John Martyn album Solid Air released on vinyl by Abbey Road. Miles Showell is the mastering engineer behind the project and Hifi Pig caught up with him for a chat. Read the full interview with Miles Showell of Abbey […]
Interview With Miles Showell Of Abbey road
We at Hifi Pig recently bought and absolutely raved about the half speed master version of the John Martyn album Solid Air released on vinyl by Abbey Road. Miles Showell is the mastering engineer behind the project and Hifi Pig caught up with him for a chat.