Tortuga Audio, the South Florida based manufacturer has launched its website/store highlighting its new LDR6 Passive Preamplifier. The US designed and manufactured LDR6 is the first of several high end audio products that Tortuga Audio plans on releasing over the next year geared towards discriminating music lovers interested in high performance 2-channel stereo audio. The […]
Now this was an interesting room and a big room to boot, but the diminutive loudspeakers filling the room with a huge sound were a complete surprise to me! The speakers in question were the out of the ordinary looking Leedh E loudspeakers and they are nothing if not unusual.
This weekend Hifi Pig took itself to Paris and the Paris Hifi Home Cinema Show 2012. Here’s the first part of our coverage of the show. Part 2 is here Part 3 is here Don’t forget to let us know what you think by submitting your comments.
And so to Gay Paris and the ‘Salon Hifi and Home Cinema and Interior Technologies’. I’ll say one thing for the French and that’s that they certainly know how to come up with a snappy title for an event! First up came the DEA International room who had an impressive array of kit on show […]
Speaker manufacturer PMC have announced that anyone buying any loudspeaker from their Twenty series between October 1st and December 31st of this year in the UK will receive a free Audio Quest Dragonfly USB DAC/headphone amplifier. Customers will need to simply register their purchase on the PMC website and then make a decision of whether […]
UK based Custom Cable, has launched an online headphone comparator service, to enable customers to identify the models they are interested in and make side by side comparisons. The new function enables visitors to categorise and select headphones by manufacturer, type, price, colour, impedance, frequency response and cable length. The user can then select different […]
Huw Brandt, out man from Uppsala takes a visit to Prague and the old TESLA factory in which KR Audio, the manufacturers of the Kronzilla amplifier and tubes now find themselves housed. On the outskirts of Prague lay the remains of the giant electronic producer TESLA. Enormous old factory buildings that once housed the production […]
Don’t forget to check out our coverage of the National Audio Show 2012 ( Whittlebury). We have lots of pictures of high end audio from some of the biggest names and some less well known names in hifi and audio. National Audio Show 2012 – Show Report Part 1 National Audio Show 2012 – Show […]
Parts 1 and 2 of the National Audio Show 2012 report can be found here and here Here’s the 3rd and final part of my adventures at the Show. There’s lots of great kit still to tell you about! Read on …
National Audio Show 2012 – Show Report Part 2 Part 1 of the National Audio Show 2012 – Show report can be found here. OK, then … continuing my adventures at the Show, I’ll start with one of the very top highlights of the show for me, and a big surprise from a name completely […]
Norwegian High end Audsio company Electrocompaniet announce a new product to their range called ECI 6DS. The ECI 6DS is an all-in-one music-system that streams music from your network, wired or wireless. Blu-ray players, CD players and even satellite television tuners can also be connected and everything is controlled by the simple to use remote […]
Onkyo announce the release of the new DS-A5 iPod/iPhone/iPad Dock, adding AirPlay functionality to Onkyo A/V receiver models and other selected audio products from within its range.With a DS-A5, owners of current-model Onkyo A/V receivers – as well as older models lacking a USB port or an ethernet connection – can enjoy AirPlay wireless streaming as […]
Box Designs by Pro-Ject Audio Systems, have announced the launch of a new Apple and Android compatible control application for use with a variety of their products. The new “Box Control” App Box Control is a special development undertaken by Pro-Ject Audio that offers users full control of Box Design network audio players. It communicates […]
The high-end VIRTU “Masters Reference” Mono PreAmplifier from Swiss manufacturer DaVinciAudio Labs is an interesting looking piece of hifi with its outsized controls and funky back plate. The preamplifier is “designed without any cost constraint” and with “fanatic attention to detail and unconventional circuit design” which the company says separates them from the mainstream. DaVinciAudio […]
A few photographs of the National Audio Show 2012 at Whittlebury.
Paul’s personal views on his top six rooms at this years Whittlebury Hifi Show. For those with ears to listen, one thing stood out at Whittlebury despite not all rooms being taken this year and that was the up-beat vibes and feedback from the traders, big and small. I spoke to many of them and […]
Henley Designs have announced a new agency agreement with Tivoli Audio for their range of radios and music systems. Managing Director, Laurence Armstrong, said of the new agreement: “We’re delighted to be supporting Tivoli Audio’s re-introduction into some of the UK’s finest retailers. Tivoli is a brand we’ve known and respected for a long time; […]
The National Audio Show organised by the Chester Group seems to have settled comfortably into its current home at the Whittlebury Hall in beautiful rural Northamptonshire, England. Quite a few of the mainstream brands and distributors were absent this year, but to be honest that just seemed to make room for other offerings that may […]
KEF has announced that is to continue its 50th year celebration promotions – so consumers have another chance to take advantage of their trade-in offer. Commencing on 21st September customers have the chance to trade-in any speaker against a KEF Q Series range speaker and receive a 20% discount on their purchase. The new promotion, […]
Toronto-based exaSound Audio Design has introduced the new, e20 DXD/DSD DAC – a stereo asynchronous USB interface supporting 384kHz/32bit PCM, and 2822.4/5644.8 MHz DSD. George Klissarov, founder of exaSound explained: “The e20 DAC takes to the next level the remarkable bit-perfect, low-jitter accuracy of the e18 DAC. It is refined for the perfect stereo experience, has […]
In the world of audiophile audio, to my mind it doesn’t matter whether you are an advocate of tube amplifier technology, vintage audio or even an all in one home audio system. What matters is the fact that you can appreciate high end audio as the means to enjoy the music you love. Or is […]
The Burson Conductor is a DAC, Headphone amp and Pre-amplifier in one box. At the heart of our DAC is the ESS SABRE32 Reference DAC chip with patented 32-bit Hyper-stream DAC architecture and Time Domain Jitter Eliminator technology. The Conductor also features the well reviewed Soloist Headphone Amplifier and a FET output stage Pre-amplifier. The […]
G Point-Audio, the UK distributor of Polish artisan hifi products, have finally announced their long anticipated partnershipwith ANSAE – manufacturers of the well regarded high-end “Power Tower” power socket strip and power cables. As well as the Power Tower (retailing at £1250 for the SE version) ANSAE also have three power cables in their collection: […]
AKG has announced the ‘AKG by Tiesto’ range of headphones. The K67 Tiesto is a compact, on ear, closed-back design with 40 mm drivers and – like its siblings –a 3D-Axis folding mechanism enabling flat storage. Next up, is the K167 Tiesto, which uses an over ear, closed-back design and the top of the range […]