What a great title for a record first of all! Badgers and Other Beings is an album of clever jazz featuring pianist, drums and bass. The Helge Lien Trio has been a bit of a hit on the jazz scene since their breakthrough album Hello Troll and it’s no wonder really. Lien is joined here […]
Recorded and mixed by Stefano Amerio in Italy on July 15th – 16th and November 1st 2013 Flowers of Sendai is released on the Bee Jazz label and here it’s been downloaded from HIGHRESAUDIO. The trio is made up of Jan Lundgren (piano), Mattias Svenson (bass) and Zoltan Csors JR (drums). Style wise Flowers of […]
D&M Holdings, a global operating company in the consumer and professional audio and video business, has announced that it has entered into a partnership with US-based Sound United for the distribution of its Polk and Definitive Technology audio products in the UK, Ireland, France, Germany, Austria and the Benelux countries. “Polk and Definitive Technology are […]
Teufel Audio’s recent collaboration with hülsta has given us an interesting concept that we at Hifi Pig thought was rather cool in its design and concept. Basically this is nice looking furniture that has the audio already built in to it. The new designs are called Scopia and Xelo. “Our cooperation already began in the […]
Swiss high end manufacturer Soulution has announced that they will be launching their new 560 DAC at High-End Munich 2014. The 560 from Soulution will have five digital inputs including AES/EBU, SPDIF, Optical, USB and LAN which makes it a pretty versatile box of tricks. The USB is of an asynchronous design based around a […]
Diesis Audio has announced its participation at the HiFi DeLuxe show in Munich May 15th to May 17th as well as the High-End Munich show which takes place 15th to18th of the same month. They will have their entire range of speakers (Caput Mundi, Aura, Ludos) and their integrated amp, Evento 20-11 on show and for demo and listening sessions. Diesis Audio was founded in Italy in 1993 and after years of development created their first product, the Caput Mundi which was the first loudspeaker in the world with a […]
Diesis Audio has announced its participation at the HiFi DeLuxe show in Munich May 15th to May 17th as well as the High-End Munich show which takes place 15th to18th of the same month. They will have their entire range of speakers (Caput Mundi, Aura, Ludos) and their integrated amp, Evento 20-11 on show and for demo and listening sessions. Diesis Audio was founded in Italy in 1993 and after years of development created their first product, the Caput Mundi which was the first loudspeaker in the world with a […]
UK based semiconductor company XMOS today announces that its xCORE high-definition USB audio solutions are in use in a range of award-winning audio-visual products from OPPO Digital. “Consumers are becoming more discerning about sound quality; artists and the music business are ready to deliver; and the technology is here to make it happen. We believe […]
Auris Audio, the Serbian manufacturer of tube amplifiers will be at this years High-End Munich show with their interesting looking range of hifi amplifiers, phono stage, DAC and headphone amplifier. The company’s range looks to be beautifully finished in real wood and leather which certainly stands this brand apart from the usual black or silver […]
LH Labs, a division of Light Harmonic and the people behind the Geek Pulse and Geek Out products is announcing a new product aimed at improving smartphone audio quality. Geek Wave is in the final stages of development and the company are want to hear from audiophiles or more casual listeners with regards what additional […]
Evolution Acoustics has launched the MMTwo and MMThree loudspeakers which they say will “transport you into the breathtaking realm of natural music”. Evolution Acoustics’ MM series loudspeakers are designed and built around a philosophy of Maximum Modularity which essentially means that upgrading is easily accomplished by the addition of another module. The MMExact, an acronym for External X-over Acoustic Compensation Technology, is designed, engineered, handcrafted, and assembled in the […]
New from Nordost is the QKOIL QK1. The new product is a load resonating coil (LRC) which Nordost say generates a passive electronic field that has a “beneficial sonic effect on the AC current”. The QKOIL QK1 from Nordost uses LFR along with Nordost’s “patented Micro Mono-Filament technology” which they say in a loading application […]
Now we’re not really ones for sharing information about common or garden furniture, ok the odd hifi rack is fine, but we thought we’d make an exception with regards the new Kallax range from IKEA as we’ve had our own (very) DIY CD rack featured on the Ikea Hackers website and we are keen proponents […]
UK loudspeaker manufacturer Harbeth contacted Hifi Pig to give us news that they will be launching something “very exciting” at this years High-End Munich show. Harbeth don’t release new products all that often and so we were quite enthusiastic to find out more but details are pretty scant at the moment so here is what […]