Naim & Focal will be at High End Munich this year which shouldn’t come as any surprise. This year they will be showing the Naim Statement amp paired with Focal Grande Utopia loudspeakers. As well as this high-end, high price system Naim will also have their Muso wireless hifi system on demonstration. You can see […]
Naim & Focal will be at High End Munich this year which shouldn’t come as any surprise. This year they will be showing the Naim Statement amp paired with Focal Grande Utopia loudspeakers. As well as this high-end, high price system Naim will also have their Muso wireless hifi system on demonstration. You can see […]
Shortly after the successful launch of its PM-1 planar magnetic headphones, OPPO Digital has released another member of its family of personal audio products – the HA-1 headphone amplifier. The analogue audio section of the HA-1 is a fully balanced design with an emphasis on keeping the audio signal in the analogue domain once it […]
Lector Strumenti Audio will be at Munich High-End 2014, from 15 to 18 May located in Halle 3 demo room at stand G09. Their kit on demo at High-End will include their new top loading CD player (CDP707) and new front loading CD player (CDP603). As well as the company’s new CD players they will […]
German Physiks will be at this year’s High-End in room F210. They will be playing a set of PQS-302 as their main loudspeakers and these be driven by a full set of Esoteric’s new Grandioso electronics. Their full system will comprise: Grandioso P-1 SACD/CD-Transport 1 pair Grandioso D-1 Mono-D/A-Converters 2 pairs Grandioso M-1 monoblock amplifiers C-02 Pre-Amplifier […]
“The USB Box S+ from Box Design by Pro-Ject Audio Systems brings the most advanced technologies surrounding asynchronous USB data transfer together into a simple-to-use Digital/Analogue Converter; turning computers into a serious hi-fi source” says the press release. And this little box of tricks certainly seems to be continuing the Pro-Ject philosophy of keeping prices […]
The guys at Mains Cable R Us got in touch to tell us about SLIC Innovations, a new specialist British hi-fi manufacturer which has launched its first audiophile interconnect cable – the Eclipse ‘C’. “It uses radical new technology unique to SLIC Innovations, and sounds like no other cable on the market as a result”. […]
Viola Audio Laboratories based in the US will be exhibiting at this years High End Munich show where they will have their Crescendo pre-amplifier (pictured) and Bravo power amplifier on demonstration. They’ll be backed up with Oceanway Audio speakers, Artesania Audio Racks and ZenSati cables all fed with a Nagra Transport. You can visit Viola […]
The Pro-Ject Xpression Carbon UKX is an entry level turntable costing just £575 and including an arm and cartridge. At this kind of price point we really wanted to hear what it could do and so Peter gave it a review for Hifi Pig and loved it. Having given the turntable a score of more […]
Hifi Pig though this looked a funky little item for when out and about, it’s, Denon’s new £169 Envaya Portable Bluetooth Speaker. “With its personalised styling that comes in two different finishes – high gloss white and matte black – and a choice of four beautiful fabrics – Lunar, Sunset, Fandango and Indigo – there is a […]
Focal & Naim today announces that Naxicap has acquired a majority stake in the Group, alongside Aquasourça and the existing management team. Christophe Sicaud, CEO of Focal & Naim commented “We are thrilled to begin this new stage in our history with the strong support of Naxicap and Aquasourça. Their investment represents a resounding endorsement […]
Wolf von Langa who we’ve heard very good things about here at Hifi Pig, got in touch to tell us about their presence at High End 2014 in Munich. Wolf von Langa is a speaker manufacturer from Bavaria and will present the company’s product range. They’ll be in room F231c of Munich MOC in Atrium […]
Following the hugely positive coverage of their Munich debut last year, Living Voice contacted us to tell us about their system for this year’s High End show. They’ll again be featuring the Vox Olympian/Elysian and you can find them on the second floor of Atrium 4, Room E220 (A4 2.OG E220). “We’ll be playing a […]
Diesis Audio is teaming up with Acrolink and HORO for the HiFi Deluxe show in Munich May 15th to May 17th. In Studio 5, the HORO Arte Turntable will spin the tunes using exclusive boutique Cables from Acrolink. The three systems on show will include Caput Mundi, Aura, Ludos Loudspeakers and the company’s integrated amplifier, Evento 20-11. The newest Young DSD DAC from […]
Audeze Partners with Barton Perreira and London Bridge Trading Company with the launch of the limited edition Barton Perreira / Audeze / London Bridge Trading Company. The collaboration features a custom set of Audeze LCD-XC headphones, matching Barton Perreira sunglasses, custom silver plated 1/8-inch headphone cables, and all in a custom London Bridge Trading Company […]
EMMESpeakers’ got in touch with Hifi Pig to tell us about their latest loudspeaker the GALILEO. The GALILEO loudspeakers is the development of the design concept that last year brought the company’s DA VINCI model. Their target was to get the same listening experience of the DA VINCI but “bigger” and able to play in […]
United Kingdom based bespoke high end manufacturer Robson Acoustics is to launch a new range of loudspeakers named Voltaire. All models in the range will incorporate the legendary Volt transducers and high precision Ribbon Tweeters. The list of high end components used in the manufacture of these loudspeakers continues to grow including pole connectors from […]
Canor, the Slovakian high-end valve audio experts, have launched their first ever precision valve CD player / DAC: the CD1.10, featuring Canor’s patented premium CMT milling technology. 2014 looks set to be the year that high-resolution audio really takes off say the company, having featured strongly at both the CES and Bristol shows. Just unveiled […]
On stand F17, Halle 3 at Highend 2014, Munich, Germany, 15- 18 May 2014 The Bespoke Audio Company will launch themselves to the world. The Bespoke Audio company is a new name in the audio world, but with an established history. The company is founded on two principles says the press release: “to hold the […]
Following AURALiC’s CES 2014 introduction of its Lightning Streaming technology, the industry’s first whole-house, high-resolution streaming solution that supports both Double-Rate DSD and DXD, the company is now debuting its first product in the Lightning family — ARIES — here at the Munich High-End show.. The ARIES serves as a “bridge” between music files on […]
IsoTek has unveiled its successor to the multi award-winningGII Titan power conditioner: the “radically updated” EVO3 Titan. Designed to deliver clean power for power-hungry amplifiers, mono-blocks, active loudspeakers and subwoofers, IsoTek’s original GII Titan was built to provide optimum high current filtering in a compact design. The new EVO3 version retains the same bijou size, […]
Peter Stanton-Ife attended the launch of a new product from Naim at the Vinyl Factory in Soho, London. As already covered in HiFi Pig, the Muso is an all-in-one wireless music system so there is no need to repeat the detail here. Seeing and hearing it in the flesh, I was impressed at the quality […]
The Chord Company has added a new high-speed HDMI cable to its collection. The Active Resolution HDMI V2 has a new high-performance chipset designed to bring improvements to both picture and sound quality when used in good-quality audio/visual systems. Key to the new cable’s design is an improved conductor: the Active Resolution HDMI V2 now […]
Andrea at Architettura Sonora got in touch with Hifi Pig to let us know that they will be exhibiting their unique and very interesting “architectural sonic modules” and amplifiers at this years Munich High End show in May. As well as attending Munich High End the company also mentioned they will be in New York […]
JoSound returns to the High End show in Munich with their Ra (currently in for review with Hifi Pig) and Cartouche AC1.5 stereo loudspeakers on 15 to 18 May 2014 at the M.O.C. Fronting their loudspeakers will be a system comprising: Tranquil PC Media One (Media PC) Abbingdon Music Research CD-777 (CD Transport) Abbingdon Music […]
Analogue Seduction, UK retailer established in 2005 and dedicated to two-channel hi-fi, is the first showroom in the UK to have Dynaudio’s new flagship Evidence Platinum loudspeakers on demonstration. Dynaudio has developed and manufactured its new flagship loudspeaker: Evidence Platinum. Which they say offers a level of sound quality never before experienced, armed with an […]
Following on from the success of their original GT2 USB cable, Japanese cable manufacturers Furutech now introduce their higher specified GT2 Pro. Featuring 24k gold-plated non-magnetic USB 2.0 connectors and Furutech’s new Alpha* OCC (Ohno Continuous Cast) silver-copper alloy conductor, the GT2 Pro has been designed with the audiophile in mind. Furutech’s GT2 Pro USB […]
As we reported recently on Hifi Pig, McIntosh Laboratory has launched a dedicated headphone amplifier for the first time in its history. Here’s a bit more information. The new MHA100 headphone amplifier has four digital inputs, remote control, and was first unveiled in January at CES 2014, Las Vegas – it’s now available in the […]
