Canor, the Slovakian high-end valve audio experts, have launched their first ever precision valve CD player / DAC: the CD1.10, featuring Canor’s patented premium CMT milling technology. 2014 looks set to be the year that high-resolution audio really takes off say the company, having featured strongly at both the CES and Bristol shows. Just unveiled […]
On stand F17, Halle 3 at Highend 2014, Munich, Germany, 15- 18 May 2014 The Bespoke Audio Company will launch themselves to the world. The Bespoke Audio company is a new name in the audio world, but with an established history. The company is founded on two principles says the press release: “to hold the […]
This is the first of two reviews of the CLONES Audio pre and power amps.
Following AURALiC’s CES 2014 introduction of its Lightning Streaming technology, the industry’s first whole-house, high-resolution streaming solution that supports both Double-Rate DSD and DXD, the company is now debuting its first product in the Lightning family — ARIES — here at the Munich High-End show.. The ARIES serves as a “bridge” between music files on […]
IsoTek has unveiled its successor to the multi award-winningGII Titan power conditioner: the “radically updated” EVO3 Titan. Designed to deliver clean power for power-hungry amplifiers, mono-blocks, active loudspeakers and subwoofers, IsoTek’s original GII Titan was built to provide optimum high current filtering in a compact design. The new EVO3 version retains the same bijou size, […]
Peter Stanton-Ife attended the launch of a new product from Naim at the Vinyl Factory in Soho, London. As already covered in HiFi Pig, the Muso is an all-in-one wireless music system so there is no need to repeat the detail here. Seeing and hearing it in the flesh, I was impressed at the quality […]
“A perfect blend of a legend, a freak, a beast and a wookie.” – Troy Sanders. A strange thing happened today: unusually I was stumped at an appropriate way to start this particular review and was mutely & vacantly staring at a blank document, but the Mastodon frontman and Killer Be Killed protagonist has provided […]
The Chord Company has added a new high-speed HDMI cable to its collection. The Active Resolution HDMI V2 has a new high-performance chipset designed to bring improvements to both picture and sound quality when used in good-quality audio/visual systems. Key to the new cable’s design is an improved conductor: the Active Resolution HDMI V2 now […]
Andrea at Architettura Sonora got in touch with Hifi Pig to let us know that they will be exhibiting their unique and very interesting “architectural sonic modules” and amplifiers at this years Munich High End show in May. As well as attending Munich High End the company also mentioned they will be in New York […]
JoSound returns to the High End show in Munich with their Ra (currently in for review with Hifi Pig) and Cartouche AC1.5 stereo loudspeakers on 15 to 18 May 2014 at the M.O.C. Fronting their loudspeakers will be a system comprising: Tranquil PC Media One (Media PC) Abbingdon Music Research CD-777 (CD Transport) Abbingdon Music […]
Analogue Seduction, UK retailer established in 2005 and dedicated to two-channel hi-fi, is the first showroom in the UK to have Dynaudio’s new flagship Evidence Platinum loudspeakers on demonstration. Dynaudio has developed and manufactured its new flagship loudspeaker: Evidence Platinum. Which they say offers a level of sound quality never before experienced, armed with an […]
Following on from the success of their original GT2 USB cable, Japanese cable manufacturers Furutech now introduce their higher specified GT2 Pro. Featuring 24k gold-plated non-magnetic USB 2.0 connectors and Furutech’s new Alpha* OCC (Ohno Continuous Cast) silver-copper alloy conductor, the GT2 Pro has been designed with the audiophile in mind. Furutech’s GT2 Pro USB […]
As we reported recently on Hifi Pig, McIntosh Laboratory has launched a dedicated headphone amplifier for the first time in its history. Here’s a bit more information. The new MHA100 headphone amplifier has four digital inputs, remote control, and was first unveiled in January at CES 2014, Las Vegas – it’s now available in the […]
Graham Slee contacted Hifi Pig to tell us about a series of road shows they’ll be putting on. “Because few demonstration facilities of Graham Slee products exist in dealers shops, we decided to take our own demo facilities on the road to be nearer to you”. Said Graham Slee. This first ever Road Show is […]