PMC (Professional Monitor Company), has announced the winners of its 2014 UK Retailer Awards. These awards publically congratulate those retailers that PMC feel have made a significant effort throughout the course of the calendar year, both with PMC products and with their businesses in general. Retailer of the Year: Fanthorpes HiFi “Located within the Georgian Hepworth’s […]
You may very well not have heard of this band let alone seen or heard their 1971 album Satori. I feel obliged to put that situation to right because hand on heart this is one of those stellar overlooked gems that ought to be in every rock music collection. The band formed in Japan in […]
Released in April 2014 by two seasoned lads from Nottingham, Divide and Exit, as the title alone suggests, is akin to musical Marmite – love it or hate it – this will divide the audio marketplace. It is not something you play when Great aunt Maud or the Vicar call around for tea. On the […]
Introduction of the SIAV
McIntosh Laboratory has launched the new D150 digital preamp — a flexible DSD- and DXD-compatible digital preamp. The new D150 has been designed to offer flexibility when adding digital source components to an audio system and supports many of the latest digital audio formats. With its five digital inputs (2x coaxial, 2x optical and 1x […]
Pass Laboratories, Inc. introduces two integrated amplifiers, the INT-60 and INT-250, at the Consumer Electronics Show 2015. The INT-60 features the same power supply and output stages, along with the iconic glowing meter, as found on Pass Labs’ Point 8 amplifiers. The new model features Direct Access buttons for the four inputs on the faceplate, […]
The Philips Fidelio NC1L on-ear headphones are the first ever Active Noise Cancelling headphones to go battery-free with a direct digital connection to your iOS device via the Lightning™ connector. 24-bit Digital to Analog Conversion (DAC), amplification and noise cancellation take place in the headphones themselves. “The Philips Fidelio NC1L headphones combine advanced Active Noise […]
German manufacturer Physical Emotions got in touch with Hifi Pig to give us a little information about what appears to be an absolutely stunning looking turntable. Main features of the turntable are as follows: Horizontally and vertically operating air bearing with accuracy of concentricity of 0,1µm. Additional axis with adjustable pressure to transfer resonances produced […]
Aurender got in touch with Hifi Pig to tell us that they will be in Venetian Suites 30-133 and 30-134 at this year’s CES. Given the popularity of audiophiles and music lovers using NAS storage devices for storing their music files, Aurender have introduced the N100 Caching Network Music Server/Player. The company say it optimizes […]
At the company’s first CES under the Gibson Brands umbrella, WOOX innovations will be introducing a host of new Philips Audio products with a focus on a wider range of Fidelio AV sound solutions including the company’s first ‘high end’ soundstage. There will also be a wider range of Fidelio headphones, new sports headphones and […]
Cambridge Audio has announced the introduction of a new flagship network music player – the Azur 851N – expanding the range of hi-fi separates in the Azur 851 Series to six products. Capable of playing all popular formats up to 24-bit/192kHz studio master quality files, the 851N then intelligently upsamples all incoming audio to 24-bit/384kHz. […]
Cambridge Audio’s totally new CX series is set to “revolutionise entertainment in the digital age”. The CX series is a range of hi-fi and home theatre components offering a unique combination of “class-leading sound”, advanced networking capabilities, large colour displays and “exceptional build quality and design”. The CX series comprises six new products: CXN network […]
Audio Capsule, the Hi-Res Audiophile grade player and Home Multi-room server made by Voxtok, is officially launched during the CES 2015 in Las Vegas. This product has been named with a CES Innovation Award Honoree in the High Performance Home Audio/Video category. They will be in Eureka Park Booth 75605. This piece of technology incorporates Voxtok Music, […]
Naim has revealed its new Super Lumina range of interconnects and speaker cables, developed in parallel with Statement, its flagship amplification system. The brief was simple say Naim, “Design a range of cables that would complement and allow the maximum performance of Statement as well as Naim 500 Series and Classic products. Starting with a […]
Burson Audio, manufacturer of USB DAC/Headphone Amplifier/Preamplifiers, Headphone Amplifiers and stereo amplifiers, introduces the new Conductor Virtuoso at this year’s CES in Venetian suite 31-322. The new Virtuoso supersedes all previous Conductor models. The Conductor Virtuoso The Conductor Virtuoso is a “highly-engineered yet modestly-priced component” with up to 4 watts of power to drive any […]