Author: HifiPig
Aulalic Announces TIDAL Integration
Auralic North America Inc. and its parent company, Auralic Limited, have announced that TIDAL, the first lossless music streaming service with HD music videos and curated editorial, has been integrated in their ARIES Streamer Bridge. AURALiC’s Lightning streaming is the industry’s first whole-house, high-resolution streaming solution that supports music playback up to Double-Rate DSD and DXD formats. The ARIES, the first […]
Salon Haute Fidélité Paris 2014
The Haute Fidélité show in Paris is a must attend for us here at Hifi Pig. It’s a nice little show that is friendly, well attended and only four hours from us by rail. This year’s show was a good event too with there being plenty of punters through the door and a good and […]
Mark Levinson’s No 585 Integrated Amplifier
The No 585 is engineered to be the finest integrated amplifier ever created by Mark Levinson and is the first of a new generation of products to be designed at HARMAN’s new state-of-the-art engineering facility located in Shelton, Connecticut. It combines versatility with a Class AB amplifier delivering 200 watts per channel into 8 ohms […]
Bryan Adams – Tracks of My Years (Deluxe Edition)
14 covers (10 on the normal version) and two original tunes, one penned in partnership with Jim Vallance and the other with Gretchen Peters ( this only on the Deluxe Edition) on this, the twelfth studio album from Canadian rocker Bryan Adams has tracks from writers such as Lennon and McCartney (Any Time At All), […]
Crystal Acoustics Teevy 6
Crystal Acoustics has announced the launch of the Teevy 6, part of the new Reference Wireless Series of speakers from Crystal Acoustics, and utilises the new WiSound technology to create what the company’s press release describes as “an incredibly dispersive, dynamic and consistent audio delivery throughout every part of the room”. The ‘WiSound’ design uses […]
Caroll Vanwelden – Shakespeare Sonnets 2
Caroll Vanwelden is a Belgian singer and a graduate of the London Guildhall School of Music and Drama, but only after having passed her engineering degree in Brussels. Shakespeare Sonnets 2 is, needless to say, the second album of Vanweldens where she puts the bard’s sonnets to music. It’s out now on Jazznarts and my […]
Estelon Extreme Loudspeakers Win Prestigious Award
Yesterday, at the press conference in New York, Consumer Electronics Association announced the winners of the honorary innovation award. Alfred & Partners’ newly launched Estelon Extreme has been selected as 2015 CES Best of Innovation Awards Honoree in the High Performance Home Audio/Video product category. Products entered in this prestigious program are judged by a […]
Pink Floyd – The Endless River
Well, Pink Floyd’s The Endless River has certainly been a long time coming… in fact it’s some twenty years since we were treated to a studio album from the Floyd, the last was 1994’s Division Bell. It’s no surprise then that this record was eagerly anticipated by the band’s legion of followers. This copy comes […]
THIEL Announce Service Facility
THIEL Audio has announced the addition of a dedicated service facility in Lexington, KY, where THIEL was founded over 35 years ago. Operated by two longtime THIEL employees Lana Ruth and Rob Gillum, the new service facility will oversee service for a long legacy of legendary loudspeakers as well as all new products scheduled for […]
Interesting Headphone Design From Flare Audio
Flare Audio, has launched what they believe to be the world’s first ‘fully’ open headphones. The Reference R1, aimed at the pro audio and audiophile market, uses Flare’s new approach to produce distortion free sound, even at full volume, enabling true transfer and transmission of source material. “Traditional headphone designs are based around two main formats, […]
Network Music Systems From Denon
Denon has announced the latest generation of its lifestyle Network Music systems. The new CEOL and CEOL Piccolo systems are a pair of compact and minimalist designs that offer music playback from every audio source imaginable, all controlled by an App. The CEOL provides access to your music collection via your home network, wherever it […]
TARA Labs’ News
“The Evolution Series from TARA Labs is truly beyond belief. It is quite simply the new watershed in the art and science of audio cable design. The Evolution Series is in a class of its own, beyond all other audio cable products in the history of the audio industry worldwide” claims the latest press release […]
KEF Launch Blue and White LS50
KEF has announced the launch of a brand new high gloss piano white edition of its famous LS50 speaker. The original LS50 first appeared in 2012, has received numerous international awards and having heard them several times myself they sure are good. The original LS50 was designed to celebrate KEF’s 50th anniversary, and was conceived […]