Industry Insider

Hifi Shows Industry Insider

Scalford Hifi Show 2014

Spring is in the air! – well, at least it seems to be thinking about it after a mild but horribly wet winter here in the UK.  So it’s time for the annual enthusiast’s show at Scalford Hall in the depths of the Leicestershire countryside in the UK, this being the Show’s 6th successive year.

Hifi Shows Industry Insider

The Bristol Show Sound and Vision 2014

The Bristol Show Sound and Vision 2014 is one of the major dates in the UK hifi and audiophile calender. Here are a few photographs of some of the hifi taken at this years  Bristol show Sound and Vision 2014. Thanks to Hifi Pig reader Justin for the photographs.

Hifi Shows Industry Insider

Haute Fidelité Hifi Show – Paris 2013.

The Haute Fidelité show was a great success for us, not least because this year we actually managed to catch our train and get there in one piece. It’s a really good show it has to be said and members of the public who attended are clearly very passionate about their two channel replay and […]

Industry Insider

Coolgales’ Bath Audiofest 2013

Bath Audiofest was launched just four years ago and in that time has grown to become one of the highlights of the high-end audio industry’s calendar. The show is staged annually in October and is organized by high-end audio specialist Cool Gales, as an opportunity for customers to meet the select group of manufacturers they […]

Industry Insider

A Day With Anthem at Ideaworks

Squeezed neatly on the fashionably cool Great Portland Street between food emporium Villandry and Regents Park’s Frieze Art Festival is “Ideaworks”, the venue for the preview of Anthems new AVR range, built on their two and a half year old MRX range and 30 years of research. Ideaworks is a stunning showpiece of conceptual sound […]

Industry Insider

KEF Week- Loud and Clear Edinburgh

UK loudspeaker manufacturer KEF held a series of events between October 1st and 7th called “KEF Week” and we thought it only right that we should send out a Hifi Pig scout to take a look at one of the events at Loud and Clear in Edinburgh.

Hifi Shows Industry Insider

Salon Hifi Paris 2013 A Bird’s Eye View

…where Linette gives a very female perspective on the show…. Great to be back in Paris again, doesn’t seem a year since the last one! Mr HiFi Pig of course is doing a much more detailed report, but you know me, I like to have my say too so here are my top stand out […]

Hifi Shows Industry Insider

National Audio Show 2013 – Whittlebury – Part 2

So, continuing on around the National Audio Show at Whittlebury Hall, this gold-plated “Garrard 301” turntable made by The Classic Turntable Company managed to catch my eye with no problems at all in the Kralk Audio room!  It looked stunning in it’s beautiful wooden plinth.  Shame they hadn’t got one of the gold SME arms […]

Hifi Shows Industry Insider

National Audio Show 2013 – Whittlebury – Part 1

National Audio Show 2013 – Show Report What a great Show it was this year! Now well established in its countryside setting of Whittlebury Hall in the gently rolling agricultural landscape of southern England, it was another excellent show managed by Roy Bird and the Chester Group.  Lots of interesting new product sounding good, and […]

Behind the Brands Industry Insider

Damon Coffman of Coffman Labs

As a classical violinist and physicist Damon Coffman founded Coffman Labs with one goal: creating products that reproduce the natural sound experienced during live performances. Coffman Labs builds all-analogue, vacuum tube-based products including the G1-A phono/line preamplifier and the H1-A headphone amplifier. All Coffman Labs’ products are hand-crafted in Oregon, USA using point-to-point wiring and […]

Industry Insider

Champagne and Canapés at the Ivy

When PR agency Little Red Rooster invited Hifi Pig’s roving reporter Simon Wilce to the Ivy with the promise of champagne, canapés and a sneaky peak at a few bits of hifi we jumped at the opportunity.

Industry Insider

Naim at 40

40 years ago, in the dim and distant 1980s, Julian Verker, the founder of NAIM but now sadly not with us, launched the company’s NAIT amplifier with the slightly tongue in cheek advertising strap-line “Mr Verker makes exceedingly good NAITS” along with a somewhat cheesy picture of himself holding out a plate of confections in […]

Behind the Brands Industry Insider

Anthony Sallis of NuNu Distribution

Anthony Sallis is the Technical Director at NuNu Distribution, UK Distributors for Audiophile Base support systems, Astin Trew electronics, Belles audio electronics, Creaktiv system enhancing products, Oracle Audio Technologies turntables and CD replay devices, Renaissance Amplification, SCS audio isolation concepts and TAD Labs.

Industry Insider

The Story of JoSound with Joe Jouhal and Inès Adler

Hifi Pig caught up with Joe Jouhal, the founder and designer of the JoSound range of loudspeakers and Inès Adler, head of Voxativ, at the Munich High-End earlier this year. We’d been interested in Joe’s loudspeakers since we heard them at the Paris Show in September 2102 and so we thought we’d take the opportunity […]

Hifi Shows Industry Insider

Munich High End 2013 – The Final Report

The Final Report Well there’s a massive amount to see at Munich High End and there’s no way that we could have hoped to have visited every room and every exhibitor but we did see a lot and we did manage to spend time listening in many of the rooms. Overall we thought the show […]

Hifi Shows Industry Insider

Munich High End 2013 – Show Report Part 5

In part 5 of the show report from Munich High End 2013 we have a listen to the new Gryphon Audio Trident II loudspeakers, have a chat with Norbert Lehmann from Lehmann Audio and have a chat with newcomers Van de Leur who are launching a new valve pre and class D power amp. We […]

Hifi Shows Industry Insider

Munich High End 2013 – Show Report Part 4

We’ll come back to the main listening rooms in the next installment of the show report from Munich High End but in this part we’ll look at some of the exhibitors who had taken static stands and were not actually playing any music or we were unable to get a listen. There is some stunning […]

Hifi Shows Industry Insider

High End Show Munich 2013 – A Bird’s Eye View. Part 3

Bird: UK slang meaning a woman/wife/girlfriend, synonyms: broad, chick, dame, girl, lass.  ‘Turn it up, bring the noise’  It’s Saturday already so time to pack our bags, eat another huge breakfast and set off for our last day at the show.  The fantastic staff at the NH München Deutscher Kaiser are looking after our bags […]