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Theta Digital Compli Blu 3D Universal Transport

Californian based Theta Digital, have announced that it is shipping its latest universal disc transport, the Compli Blu 3D. According to Dave Reich, Theta Digital’s chief engineer, the Compli Blu 3D was optimized for use with advanced preamp/processors and outboard DAC’s like Theta Digital’s own Casablanca III HD and Generation VIII S3. “It’s simply impossible […]

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New ‘Phones for “On the Go” Types

New consumer electronics brand i-box is launching its first headphones, part of its fast-growing range of smartphone and tablet accessories. The i-box Flats, sporting a rugged metal construction, flat tangle-free cable and red and black styling. The 1.2m red cable is flat in order to make them tangle-resistant. The metal-bodied earphone casings are “robust, stylish […]

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Amphion and Antelope Audio at Bristol 2013

Amphion and Antelope Audio will be co-exhibiting at the Sound & Vision Bristol Show in the United Kingdom, February 22 – 24, 2013. The two brands are going to demonstrate a few different set ups, starting with mastering quality to easy-to-use desktop systems. Visitors will have the chance to see for the first time in […]

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Meridian Explorer USB DAC

Meridian has announced the introduction of its Explorer USB DAC. The Explorer is a pocket-sized high-resolution USB DAC from “that delivers best-in-class sound from any computer”. Featuring a range of connectivity, the Explorer can be used in a variety of applications from private headphone listening to full system playback. The Explorer is compatible with Mac, […]

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Simple Audio Acquired by Corsair

Simple Audio, the networked audio company based in Scotland that released its first multi-room music streaming system in 2012 and quickly gained a reputation for superior sound performance, today announced that it has been acquired by leading US-based PC enthusiast hardware company Corsair in a multi-million dollar deal. The deal marks another positive chapter in […]

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Schiit Happens – Asgard 2 Headphone Amp

Schiit Audio announce the production of the Asgard 2 headphone amplifier. Asgard 2 is a complete redefinition of the company’s Asgard headphone amplifier, adding both a higher-performance gain stage based on their flagship Mjolnir amp, as well as features such as selectable gain and preamp outs. “With these changes, Asgard 2 becomes a complete control […]

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Von Schweikert Audio VR-100XS

Von Schweikert Audio announce the VR-100XS speaker system.  All aspects of its design have been approached with the goal of an “acoustically holographic listening experience of a live musical event”.  To achieve this, the company have engineered an all-new Noise Reduction cabinet construction based on their Triple-Wall constrained layer patent, a matched driver array using […]

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Behind The Brands With Daniela Manger.

In the latest of our ongoing series of interviews with the people behind the brands, Hifi Pig talks to Daniela Manger, the CEO & owner of Manger Products. Read all the Behind the Brands interviews.  

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Krell S-550i Integrated Amp Ships This Week

Krell have announced today that their S-550i integrated amp will be shipping this week! The Krell S-550i builds on the success of the S-300i integrated amplifier and delivers 275 watts of stereo output. The S-550i is outfitted with balanced and single-ended inputs, iPod dock, and Theater Throughput™ mode. For custom integration applications, 12 volt triggers, […]

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Daniela Manger of Manger Products

Daniela Manger is the CEO & owner of Manger Products. She has involved in Hi-Fi, electronics engineering & Pro-Audio markets almost since she was born due to family interests. Based on their unique Manger MSW/Sound Transducer their current portfolio includes Reference Active Monitor (MSMc1) & its floorstanding version (MSMs1), plus other accessories which help to […]

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Bad Religion – True North

34 years.  That’s how long Bad Religion has been a functioning entity!  Occupying a genre not known for cultivating longevity in its participants, they’ve endured line-up changes, fluctuations in popularity and label changes and are (deservedly) absolute icons of punk rock. However to use sporting parlance, you’re only as good as your last game… so […]

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Gryphon Pendragon Loudspeakers

Luxury high end audio manufacturer Gryphon Audio Designs of Denmark is celebrating the launch of their greatest loudspeaker achievement yet, the four-tower Gryphon Pendragon. Conceived to be partnered with the Gryphon Pandora preamplifier and Mephisto (stereo) or Mephisto Solo (monoblock) power amplifiers, the three-way Gryphon Pendragon system employs a bass tower (eight 8” bass drivers […]

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Thiel Appoints Interim COO

THIEL Audio, the lexington based high-end loudspeaker manufacturer, has announced that consumer electronics senior executive Bob Brown has been appointed to the company’s board of directors and will take over as interim COO effective immediately. Brown, recently named to CEDIA’s board of directors, brings a rich legacy and successful track record in the performance audio […]

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Munich High-End 2013

It’s that time of year again and around comes what many in the high-end audio community feel is the “must go to” hifi show in the calender. I’m talking of course about the Munich High-End Exhibition 2013 which takes place 9th May – 12th May, 2013 –  with the Thursday being trade visitors day. This […]

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Carl Tatz Chooses Bryston

Bryston, LTD has announced that award-winning studio designer Carl Tatz has selected the Bryston 4BSST² stereo amplifier to power the control room monitors in a studio designed for multi-Grammy®-winning engineer Bob Bullock. “I brought the first Bryston 4B to the Nashville studio scene in the ’80s. It has since become the world standard for pro […]

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Aurorasounds’ VIDA Phonostage

Aurorasounds’ is a high-end audio company from Yokohama, Japan. Designer and director Shinobu Karaki has 28 years experience working for Texas Instruments Japan Inc and is also a passionate musician, music teacher and an audiophile. Aurorasounds’ latest development is a phono-stage called VIDA (Vinyl Disk Amplifier). The two box VIDA uses an LCR network for […]

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KEF Introduce New Finishes to Q Series Loudspeakers

KEF has added a Linear White and Rosewood finish to its Q Series speaker range. The Q Series uses the Uni-Q driver array and bass drivers which help deliver an “extremely detailed and spacious sound image even from the smallest models”. There are nine models, including three floorstanders, two bookshelf speakers, two fully specified and […]

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DH Labs Announce “The Deity” Speaker Cable

US audio cable manufacturer, DH Labs has announced the latest in their range of loudspeaker cables, the Deity Speaker Cable. The cable has been designed to be used in high-end audio systems and the company claims it delivers “the most accurate and uncoloured signal transmission possible, along with extraordinary harmonics and tonal balance”. The Deity […]

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Projected Twin – Earth vs World

This is the second album from Projected Twin, the brainchild of Adelaide local Shaun Holton.  Following on from the similarly titled, self-produced debut Earth to World, Earth vs World was made possible by the increasingly successful Pledge Music organization.  For those unfamiliar, Pledge and similar organizations take donations towards the cost of  recording upcoming albums […]

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Holy Grail – Ride the Void

Nuclear Blast Records Sophomore albums are always an interesting proposition.  Not only because they are supposedly “difficult”, but also because they often give a more realistic representation of a band’s sound and future direction than their debut.  Many bands skew off in a radically different direction on their second albums, eager to avoid stereotype and […]

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Black Rhodium Introduce Tempo Interconnect

British audio cable manufacturer, Black Rhodium has announced the launch of its latest stereo interconnect named Tempo.  The design of Tempo is based very closely on the company’s Coda interconnect cable with two differences: The Silicone rubber type GPC insulation of the 19 individual 16-gauge silver plated copper conductors has been increased from a thickness […]

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Behind the Brands with Graeme Holland of Audion

In the second of our ongoing series of Behind the Brands interviews we speak to Graeme Holland who heads up the high-end valve amplifier manufacturing company Audion. If you are involved in the Hifi industry and are yourself interested in being included in the Behind The Brand interviews then please do get in touch with […]

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Graeme Holland of Audion

Graeme Holland heads up Audion, a high-end valve amplifier manufacturer based in South West France, having traditional values and service, yet at the forefront of tube technologies. Now celebrating 25 years of supplying and creating high-end audio products, Audion goes from strength to strength.

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AMI Musik DDH-1 DAC and Headphone Amplifier

With its Digital-to-Analog Converter (DAC), standalone Digital-to-Analog Converter (DAC) & Preamp, Digital-to-Digital Converter (DDC), standalone Digital-to-Digital Converter (DDC) with analog input and Headphone Amplifier this little unit from Tokyo certainly seems to be well specced. All in one device for USB DAC, standalone DAC & Preamp, USB-DDC, standalone DDC with analog input, headphone amplifier. Asynchronous USB operation: […]

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NuForce IA-18 Integrated Amplifier

NuForce, Inc have announced a single-chassis integrated stereo amplifier, the IA-18. The unit incorporates  components used in NuForce’s c Reference Series products including much of the same circuitry as the P-20, the company’s most recent flagship preamplifier, a Cross Matrix Array (CMA) capacitor module, and two V3 output amplifier modules. The IA-18 features five analogue […]

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New Merrill Audio Veritas Amplifiers Announced

Merrill Audio announces the release of two new models of their Veritas amplifiers, a Dual Mono version called the VERITAS Twins, and Bridged Monoblocks called the VERITAS Siamese Twins. All three models are built around the Hypex Ncore NC1200. Priced at USD $9,000, the VERITAS Twins Dual Mono Amplifier provides the sonic and build quality […]

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Tellurium Q “Waveform” Digital RCA

Waveform is the new class of semi-active digital RCA from Tellurium Q (patent applied for in UK, number:1223346.6) coming from many months of research by the UK based company. “The new device contains a bi-directional, high speed, non-avalanching voltage clamp, controlling the peak voltages into your DAC. The technology is contained on two little circuit boards encased in anti-micro-phonic material, one in each RCA plug.” […]