New Audia Flight Amp At High End
Absolute High End have been in touch to tell us they will have the Audia Flight FLS10 at this year’s High end show in Munich.
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PTP Audio First Time At High End
PTP Audio from Amsterdam in the Netherlands will attend the Munich High End show this year for the very first time.
Audionet’s Stern Pre Wins National Design Award
Audionet’s Stern preamplifier and Hartmut Esslinger honoured with National Design Award.
PMC At High End Munich
PMC will be giving visitors to Munich High End 2017 the chance to get right to the core of its design philosophy with a major new product introduction, the latest SE range and twenty5 series on demonstration and additions to its UK distributed AVM range.
Manger Demo Latest Versions of P1 and S1 Loudspeakers at High End Munich
The lovely people at Manger, who always put on a very cool room at Munich High End, have been in touch to let us know that they will have on demo their newest version of the p1 (passive floorstander) and s1 (active floorstander shown in white below) loudspeakers.
Fidata HFAS1 At Munich High End
Fidata will be at High End Munich next week with their Network Audio Servers. The fidata HFAS1 is a network-attached storage (NAS) appliance designed specifically for network audio.
A New Dimension For In-Car Audio At High End 2017?
paragon and Audionet commonly present “3D+ High End – the new dimension of in-car audio” – a “groundbreaking” new development in the area of in-car audio systems at this year’s High End Show in Munich.
Audionet Announce European Debut For Stern and Heisenberg At Munich 2017
Audionet have got in touch to let us know they will be at this year’s Munich High End Show 2017 in Showroom C121 in the Atrium 3.
Ruark R7 Radiogram
Many of us of a certain age will remember the radiogram, now Ruark bring it bang up to date with their R7 Radiogram costing £2000. John Scott gets a bit nostalgic in what is a bit of a departure for Hifi Pig.
The McIntosh Group Appoint New CPDO
The McIntosh Group, parent company of the iconic McIntosh brand and some of the other most, announced the appointment of Jérôme Mathieu as Chief Product Development Officer (CPDO) for Personal Audio.
Densen B-250CAST Preamp Supports Google Cast
Densen have unveiled an upgrade to their B-250 Pre-amplifier in the form of the B-250CAST, a pre-amplifier which supports Google Cast streaming.
Mutec To Unveil New Look At High End
MUTEC GmbH, manufacturer of professional and audiophile consumer audio equipment, has announced a design refresh of the corporate identity and product face plates.
Burson Announce Impedance Matching Interconnects
“It is the attempt to make the output impedance of a source equal to the input impedance of the amplifier to which it is ultimately connected. This is pro-audio engineering 101.” claims the recent press release from Burson.
HIGH END MUNICH 2017 – soulutions To Release New Amps
Find out what soulutions are up to at this year’s High End Show in Munich?
soulutions To Present New Amps at Munich High End
“No deletion, no addition! Music as natural, involving and full of emotions as you usually enjoy it in the concert hall or during a live concert! This is what we strive for at soulution.” is what the latest press release from the company claims and continues that they are very excited about introducing their new Series 3 […]
More Beatles Inspired Special Editions From Pro-Ject
On June 1st, 2017, the iconic album Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band turns fifty years old. To mark the occasion, The Beatles have released three Anniversary Editions of the album in association with Apple Corps Ltd., Capitol and USM. Newly mixed by Giles Martin and Sam Okell in both stereo and 5.1 surround audio, […]
Axpona 2017 Report
David Blumenstein, Hifi Pig’s US correspondent, visited the recent Axpona (Audio Expo North America) 2017 show and writes about his experience here. Sadly his camera equipment failed in transit and so we’ve used library pictures to whet your appetite.
Hifi Pig Promotion – Qualiton – A Young Brand With a Long History
Hifi Pig Promotion Audio Hungary Ltd., owners of the Qualiton brand, started off in 2012. This essentially came about when they purchased Univox Ltd, a manufacturer of industrial PA equipment. Without wanting to make this a lesson in economic history: the company started back in the 1940’s operating under the names of “Audio” “EAG “and […]
Qualiton – A Young Brand With a Long History
Hifi Pig Promotion Audio Hungary Ltd., owners of the Qualiton brand, started off in 2012. This essentially came about when they purchased Univox Ltd, a manufacturer of industrial PA equipment. Without wanting to make this a lesson in economic history: the company started back in the 1940’s operating under the names of “Audio” “EAG “and […]
Onix DNA-50 Amplifier
British brand Onix will be a familiar name to many and has a strong heritage. Here Dominic Marsh puts their DNA–50 amplifier costing £1979 through its paces.
Last Shop Standing: Or Is It?
Record Store Day is this Saturday, April 22nd, and I could not think of a better way of celebrating the day than by interviewing someone from the UK that I never met, but got to know through his book and DVD Last Shop Standing; The Rise, Fall and Rebirth of The Independent Record Shop.
GoldNote Vasari Gold and Red Moving Magnet Cartridges
Gold Note are a well known for their very high end products but here Janine Elliot takes a listen to their €195 and €350 moving magnet cartridges.
Atmo Sfera Platterless Turntable High End Edition
The Atmo Sfera Platterless turntable certainly raised a few eyebrows on social media when we announced we would be reviewing it, it’s just like nothing else out there! Ian Ringstead checks out this Italian oddity costing £3500 including arm and cartridge.
AVID Announce Reference Subwoofer
Reference Subwoofer was specifically designed to compliment AVID’s Reference Four loudspeaker. However, depending upon room size and application it can partner all their other loudspeakers, especially if being used in a high performance home cinema application.
David 13: A Coming Of Age
In the midst of Saturday afternoon photography walkabout in North London (UK), my companion for the walk started laying out his idea for a music documentary recounting 1971 as the pre-eminent year and put into evidence the records which debuted to support his claim. Instinctively, I countered with 1977 and after a good while, and […]
AXPONA 2017: Laying The Groundwork
Hifi Pig US Correspondent David Blumenstein will be attending and covering AXPONA 2017, which takes place 21st to 23rd April at The Westin O’Hare, Rosemont, Illinois, but before catching his plane he takes the time to interview Steve Davis and Liz Miller of AXPONA.
Live: The Fontaines, Bitch Falcon and Girl Band in Dublin
A photo of Sinatra alongside Davis Jr and Dean Martin adorns the walls. The wallpaper is patterned with the Statue of Liberty and James Dean. Where you’d expect to see a domesticated rockabilly band or an alcoholism-riddled crooner onstage in this schlock ‘Merica-themed venue, there will soon be three of Ireland’s finest bands treading the boards […]
Minus The Bear – Voids
Both musicians and music critics are responsible. Musicians make the music, critics give it a name. When Slint released the seminal Spiderland in ’91, they had no idea that what was already a love/hate genre in the eyes of many a music fan (post-rock/math-rock) would fuse with other love/hate genres (emo).