Well this is certainly a good deal of music for your money with Dusty Kid’s third album coming in at round about the two hours mark spread over two CDs which are limited to just 1000 copies on the Isolade label. III is interestingly mixed with the use of vintage consoles and everything being recorded […]
Gato have announced that they will release the latest addition to their DIA range from next month. The new addition will be a preamplifier and DAC with the name PRD-3. The preamplifier will be based on the company’s DIA integrated amplifier and will include the DAC circuits from their DIA-250 and DIA-400. Price will be […]
Dynaudio have announced their new Sub, the 250 II which will retail at £750. It’s an active subwoofer with an integrated 200W amplifier and ustilising a 24cm long-throw woofer which has a 100mm voice coil. The enclosure is sealed and it will be available in four finishes. Interestingly the woofer’s coil and cone are made […]
B.M.C. Audio (Balanced Music Concept) has introduced the new PureVox speaker. The PureVox is B.M.C.’s entry-level speaker and the cpmpany claime a number of innovations for the speaker. Most conventional speakers have good depth of image in the centre of the sound-stage, but much less so at the sides. Responsible for this lack of realism are the […]
Recorded in 1963 and released in July of the same year on the Verve label (and then later in 97 where there were extra tracks) this is Ella Fitzgerald and the Count Basie Orchestra with Quincey Jones being responsible for the arrangements (Fitzgerald later worked with Jones on the 1989 “Back on the Block”) and […]
Empyrean Isles was recorded in 1964, released on the Blue Note label, established Hancock as a serious artist and is now available on hi rez format (this copy came from HighRes Audio in Germany) The album contains two of Hancock’s most famous compositions – “One Finger Snap” and the brilliant “Cantaloupe Island” which is one […]
Out 27th January on the Kompakt label Pop ambient 2014 is the 14th instalment of this series of albums presided over by label head honcho Wolfgang Voigt. Pop Ambient kicks off with “The God of Pads” Ulf Lohmann who’s had a six year hiatus and it would appear he’s back in fine form with the […]
As the title may suggest the Concord USB is a powered USB cable from Astintrew and Danny Worth has been listening to one for the last few weeks. “Tones were nice and relaxed and unforced, there was an ease to the sound, a silky flow to the music and, most importantly, the nasty upper bass […]
UK Distribution company Henley designs contacted Hifi Pig to tell us about the new Quintet Series of Moving Coil (MC) phono pick-up cartridges from Ortofon. The all-new range of cartridges includes 5 models to offer a range that ties in nicely with Ortofon’s existing Cadenza Series of premium MC cartridges, and their 2M range of […]
Thomas at TSAE, whose Evince loudspeakers we reviewed, got in touch with Hifi Pig to tell us that NuNu Distribution has been appointed the official UK and US distributor for their products. Anthony Sallis at Nu Nu Distribution said “At NuNu we are admirers of the different and the bold innovators in musical reproduction. Thomas […]
Denon has announced its first standalone USB Digital to Analogue Converter, the new £329 DA-300USB DAC which boasts the same Advanced AL32 Processing and 32-bit, 192kHz digital to analogue conversion technologies of Denon’s flagship CD/SACD players. It is scheduled to hit stores in February 2014. The DAC can be connected via USB-B or the additional […]
When this diminutive Bluetooth loudspeaker arrived just before Christmas we thought that the best person to review it would be our sixteen year old son Harry as he’s potentially the target market and he’s the one with Bluetooth enabled kit. “The sound quality is very good, the bass is surprisingly rich and the high notes […]