Trends In Hifi For 2016
Linette Smith takes a look into her crystal ball and see’s if she can pluck out some trends for 2016 out of the swirling mists.
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Sennheiser Orpheus
Janine Elliot continues her series of articles for Hifi Pig highlighting classic hifi from yesteryear. This month, given that Sennheiser have recently announced a new $55 000 Orpheus, she turns her attention to the original Sennheiser Orpheus, first released in 1991.
Little and Large
In the last of his Fidelity Matters articles for 2015, Ian Ringstead celebrates innovation wherever it comes from and applauds all the people in the hifi industry who make this wonderful kit possible.
2015 A Year In Hifi
Stuart Smith looks at the year that was 2015 and hints at a few things you can expect to see in the coming year from Hifi Pig.
Now Listen Here
Dominic Marsh gets puzzled over the differences people hear with identical products and explains how he goes about evaluating and listening to new kit.
The Tefifon
Janine Elliot takes another look at retro audio kit, this time focusing on the rare Tefifon.
System Addict
Linette Smith asks “What’s your drug of choice?”.
Trade-Ins….What will you give me for my used mule?
Mike Twomey continues his series of articles looking at the wonderful world of audio from the dealers perspective and this month offers up a few useful tips on how to get the best trade in deal when it comes round to the inevitable upgrade time…
The State of the Hifi Industry
Ian Ringstead takes a look at the state of the hifi industry and asks what we can all do to boost the popularity of two channel audio in the home.
Paris Haute Fidelité Show 2015.
This is not really the article that I was going to write this month, but things changed in Paris on Friday the 13th of November 2015. We are setting off to visit the Haute Fidelité Show at the Marriott Rive Gauche in Paris. I’m not entirely sure how I am feeling, a mixture of anger […]
Mains Cable – Part 3
Dominic Marsh concludes his three part series on mains cables. YOU can read Part 1 here and Part 2 here.
How to Get a Good Deal from your Dealer During the Holidays
Mike Twomey has a bit of advice about how to get the best deal on your audio during the holidays. The Wondrous Holiday Season – a Six Week Period. Where People Totally Lose Their Mind. How to Get a Good Deal from your Dealer During the Holidays
Leak Stereo 20
Janine Elliot takes a step down memory lane with the much loved Leak Stereo 20 power amplifier.
Haters Gonna Hate
There seems to be a lot of in-fighting within the audiophile world about people’s personal choices and the equipment they finally place in their system. Stuart Smith takes a tongue-in-cheek look at what he thinks are the reasons for this phenomenon…
It’s Show Time
Ian Ringtead loves a Hifi Show and has been going to them for many a long year…
How Dealers Select the Products They Sell
Mike Twomey continues his series of articles and focuses on how the dealers choose the lines they carry.
Cable Wars
Cable wars must surely be the biggest single cause of conflict and injury between audiophiles and the reason I’ve not got involved in one in a good old while…better just to keep quiet, watch from a distant hilltop and let the troops on the virtual front line battle it out ad-infinitum, though casualties will inevitably […]
Why We Really, Really Need To Stop Using WAF
Linette Smith brings the itchy blanket of gender politics to the hifi world.
Mains Cables – Part Two
Dominic Marsh continues with his personal thoughts on mains cables and why he believes they can make substantial improvements in the sound of your hifi. Hifi Pig does not advocate anyone making ANY unauthorized or unsafe changes to their mains supply or equipment in ANY way! Always consult a professional and qualified electrician.
Stax
Janine Elliot takes us on a brief tour of the history of Japanes company Stax, who many readers will know for their “ear speakers”.
Oh My God He Killed Kenny (Rodgers)
Dave Robson runs the Facebook group “Audiophiles UK. Hi-Fi and Music” and here talks Hifi Pig through his musical and Hifi journey.
The Internet Shopper And The High-End Dealer
Hifi Pig invited Mike Twomey who owns Big Kids Toys AV in Greensboro NC to give us his thoughts on internet shoppers and high-end audio.
The Whole Package
Linette gets that Christmas morning feeling and a girl crush…or does she? “I have a confession to make. I have a bit of a girl crush on Alex Polizzi…..no, not like that, put away your filthy minds….I mean I’d like to be her friend, hang out with her a bit, I think she’s really cool”. […]
A Passion For Vinyl
Ian Ringstead gets all biblical about his love affair with the black stuff. “I then had an epiphany moment and saw the light. Turntables were being written about again in the hifi mag’s and manufacturers were making real efforts to produce better decks, arms and cartridges. ”
Stupid Legislation
Another rant from Stu, this time about recent legislation in the UK regarding making back ups. “So what, given this new ruling am I supposed to do if and when my hard-drive goes belly up and refuses to let me at my precious music files?”
Transcriptors Hydraulic Reference Turntable
“One possession that I really hold dear is my Transcriptors Hydraulic Reference, a turntable so modern and iconic that it had its own place in Stanley Kubrick’s 1971 film A Clockwork Orange”.
Boxing Clever
The Pros and cons of buying off the internet. “I left the receipt for it lying around and she found it by chance, which was bad news!! Very bad news!!! The fact I had for years just bought and changed kit regularly without often mentioning the actual price I had paid for it couldn’t go […]
CDs
The CD was a revelation in its day and I even recall one very animated presenter from Tomorrow’s Worldsmearing jam, or was it marmalade, over one of the discs, wiping it off and then playing the disc…But are they worth bothering with now?
