It was not without a little trepidation that I was attending this Hifi show…I had heard stories about UK shows, and not all good. ‘You’ll be the only woman there’ some said…. ‘They’ll look at you like you’re from another planet!!’ said others! Hmmmm, I thought, do I want to go to a UK show? […]
This article was first published in the January 2014 issue of Hifi Pig Magazine which can be downloaded free of charge. Holger Fromme is the MD of well known and well loved German horn loudspeaker manufacturer Avantgarde. He he answers Hifi Pig’s Behind The Brands questions.
The History of Cabasse
This article was first published in the December 2013 issue of Hifi Pig Magazine which can be downloaded free of charge. Randy Kunin is the owner of and driving force behind Randall K Designer HiFi. The company was started a little under a year ago with one mission; to make audio cool again and get […]
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.
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.
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 […]
When we heard that James Morrow in Edinburgh was going to be having a launch event for the new Lyric from Cyrus we couldn’t help but send along our man in Scotland (Billy Smith) to take a look.
QNKTC was founded by Børge Strand-Bergesen, who is an expert on electronics filter design, circuit board layout and design for manufacturing. He believes the circuit board design contributes greatly to the sound quality of the DAC. Critical analogue signals are kept on short tracks and away from the digital section. The board design has an […]
Photographs taken at The Hifi SHow 2013 in Windsor. Photography by Mike Blackmore
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 […]
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 […]
Norbert Lehmann is the CEO of Lehmann Audio in Germany, a company that produces headphone amps, phono stages and an amplifier as well as pro audio equipment. He is a graduate in audio engineering and is a keen guitarist.
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.
…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 […]
We really enjoy the Salon Hifi Home Cinema et Technologies d’Interieur and yesterday’s event was no exception. An early (3am) start and a long journey home to rural Brittany makes it an exhausting day but it’s well worth the effort.