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CA Electronics HS-1 Headphone Stand

Having just bought a new pair of lovely “audiophile headphones” I thought “Why keep your headphones stuffed into a cupboard or drawer, getting the cable and the cable extension tangled up?” The house is already a bit of a sty after all and i really don’t need any more clutter! Having spent so much of […]

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Radford STA15 and STA25 Amplifiers Revived

Hifi Pig has snoofled out some very interesting news for valve amplifier fans and enthusiasts of the iconic Radford STA15 and STA25 valve hi fi amplifiers. UK based Radford Revival have announced the limited edition reissue of Radfords classic series 3 hifi amplifiers. The father and son team of Steve and William Moores hand-build these […]

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Martin Logan Motion SLM – Super Skinny Loudspeakers

MartinLogan, well known the world over for their electrostatic speaker technology, announces this month the slender Motion® SLM, a wall-hanging or free standing LCR speaker that is ”powerful enough to stand alone and detailed enough to be used in conjunction with floor standing MartinLogan speakers”. The Motion SLM features dual four-inch, ultra-slim fibre cone woofers […]

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Electrocompaniet EMP 2 Multiplayer

Electrocompaniet the Norwegian hifi manufacturer of CD-Players, Dacs, amplifiers and loudspeakers launched the EMP 2 multiplayer in October of last year. Whilst this isn’t up to the minute “news” Hifi Pig thought it worth including in this section of the site. The EMP 2 is part of the company’s Classic line and is a fully […]

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NAD Announce Launch of Masters Series M51

NAD has announced the imminent launch of its Masters Series M51 Direct Digital DAC.   The M51 includes many ‘firsts’ for the DAC product category: first to support HDMI, first to support USB Audio Class 2 with support for 192kHz, the first to use digital error correction, and the first 35 bit architecture to be found […]

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Meridian Offer Trade up Opportunity

With immediate effect – and until the 31st May 2012 – customers can obtain a minimum trade-up value from an authorised Meridian retailer on selected CD Players and Controller products against the purchase of a new 800 Reference Series product.

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HiFi Wigwam Scalford 2012 Show Report

For the 4th successive year, the HiFi Wigwam internet hifi & music forum has organised its very own hifi show.  This is hosted in the spacious Scalford Hall Hotel in the heart of rural Leicestershire UK, just outside the town of Melton Mowbray, which is otherwise famous for its pork pies!  Hifi Pigs beware … For […]

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Naim Announce NDS Network Player

Naim has announced a new addition to its network player range –  the NDS. The new reference network player joins the NDX and ND5 XS and completes Naim’s range of streaming separates sources. The NDS is an audiophile source, capable of playing and streaming audio over a home network at up to 24bit/192kHz resolution. It […]

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Loudspeaker and Listening Room Interaction…Important or Not?

How many times have you listened to a set of ‘speakers in a showroom to be surprised, or even disappointed when after purchasing, dragging them (carefully) home and impatiently setting them up only to be rewarded with something that bore no relationship with the sound that you heard at the dealers?  Besides the usual caveats […]

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Computer Based Hifi and Me

Now don’t get me wrong I do like computers. I use a computer daily. I’m even using one now to write this article. Computers have enabled me to work from home, do that away from the UK and even allows me communicate in real time with folks all over the world at the push of […]