Police Interview a British Icon
Janine Elliot continues her fascinating RetroBites series, this time focusing on reel to reel and cassette tapes and in particular the British brands NEAL and Ferrograph.
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Get It Inner – James Fleming Addresses The Love Generation
James Fleming has opinions and uses “language” and today addresses the “Love Generation”. You have been warned!
We Are Not Alone!
James Fleming gets hit by a glitter-coated brick and finds he is not alone!
Vinyl For The Masses
New Hifi Pig correspondent from over the pond David Blumenstein launches his regular column “Transatlantic Dispatches: A New World Disorder” with a search for an non-audiophile turntable that works well, but doesn’t break the piggy bank.
Love Is In The Air…Or Is It?
February is often seen as a romantic month with loved-up people the world over spending exorbitant amounts of money on Valentines Day flowers, cards, dinners out and gifts for their significant other. For many audiophiles though, the love of their life is not made of flesh and blood but has an aircraft-grade aluminium chassis, a […]
Self-destruct in T-Minus 5…
Self destruction and rock and roll seem to go hand in hand….or is that the myth that we want to believe?
Bird’s Eye View Of 2016
Linette Smith gives her final round up of what a Bird’s Eye View of the Hifi world has been like in 2016.
2016, The Year The Music Died?
Cheerful as ever Stuart Smith makes a list of musicians that have died in 2016 and asks, was this the year that the music really did die?
A Potted History Of The Rise and Fall and Rise Again Of The Thermionic Tube
Janine Elliot charts the rise and fall and rise again of the Thermionic Tube/valve in this fascinating and informative article.
Is It The Singer Or The Song?
James Fleming asks that crucial question: Is it the singer or the song?
Potrzeba Jest Matką Wynalazków
We recently spent a very good weekend as the guests of the Warsaw Audio Show and one thing that really stood out for us was how knowledgeable and passionate the people were about music and audio. This got me thinking as to why this should be and I formulated a couple of opinions and how […]
The Universal Language
A couple of things struck me when we started Hifi Pig and I got involved with going to Hifi Shows and talking to other like-minded people on the interwebs. Those things were that, firstly, there didn’t seem to be a lot of women around and secondly that everyone involved was ‘of a certain age’. That […]
All Roads Lead to the M2
Continuing her excellent series focusing on vintage and classic hifi, Janine Elliot takes a look at the Meridian M2 active loudspeakers.
Soul Searching
New Hifi Pig contributor James Fleming does a bit of Soul Searching and is likely to ruffle a few feathers along the way.
Handbags At Dawn
In this month’s Bird’s Eye View, Linette Smith discusses handbags and earrings…and a bit of Hifi too.
Record Equalisation Explained
If you don’t know your NABs from your RIAAs or your Microgroove from your Orthacoustic, don’t panic as Janine Elliot is here to explain the history and the science behind vinyl equalisation.
A Day In the Life At Hifi Pig Towers
Linette shares a typical day in the life of Hifi Pig.
An Awesome DIY Turntable Build By Hifi Pig Reader Stuart Armstrong
Hifi Pig talks to Hifi Pig reader Stuart Armstrong who has an interesting and very accomplished DIY turntable project.
Going for Gold
With the recent Olympic and Paralympic games still fresh in my mind I got to thinking how incredible as a nation the United Kingdom is. The fact we came second in the medal tables for both games, coming just behind the USA in the Olympics and China in the Paralympics was amazing. The Chinese in […]
Philips Motional Feedback Speakers
Talk of powered speakers and the chances are you will think instantly of Bang and Olufsen or Meridian, or perhaps PMC and ATC. I was pleased to get hold of the Meridian’s M2 in the 1990’s, though had seen them in KJ LeisureCentre in Watford in the late 70’s and craved for them then. But […]
Caravaning, Camping and Hifi
We’ve been having a lovely time covering the Crescendo Festival in St Palais sur Mer in the Poitou region of France – and a great festival it is too. It’s free, there’s bands from all over the world play and it’s really well organised and attended. Now, as a family we’ve always been campers…never in […]
Tonight, I’m A Rock And Roll Star
Linette Smith looks at fame and the reasons people become, or want to become, famous.
An Evening Of Hifi and Booze
Audiophile Hifi and Music Evening at The Ridger Bar and Grill, Wirral on Sunday 21st August 2016.
Leak Trough-Line Tuner
When talking about iconic tuners two or three words often come to mind; ‘Leak’ and ‘Trough-Line’. Only a few other tuners, the Quad FM3 and Marantz Model 2110 with built in oscilloscope get me excited.
How I Judge A Hifi System
Hifi Pig reader Michael Howell was born in England but now resides the good old USA. In this Readers’ Lives article he tells us how he personally goes about evaluating a system.
The Revox A77 Reel-to-Reel Recorder
Things are afoot in the world of reel 2 reels. Not only are there now at least 4 major companies producing reel to reel copies of famous master tapes, but very importantly after a long gap the Swiss tape recorder manufacturer Revox are bringing back the medium with a player based on the A700.