KEF has announced the addition of a further five new custom installation speakers to further strengthen the company’s Ci Range which will be on show and available for demonstration at this year’s *Integrated Systems Europe (ISE) show in Amsterdam from February 4th – February 6th. The all-new tall rectangular range is designed and specifically engineered […]
Iso Tek has unveiled its successor to the award-winning GII Sigmas: the EVO3 Sigmas. Like the GII Sigmas, the new EVO3 version is a six-way mains conditioning unit. The EVO3 Sigmas’ two high-current outlets feature IsoTek’s Direct-Coupled© technology, which provides high-current low impedance filtering whilst its four medium-current outlets feature an increased 10A capacity. This, […]
McIntosh Laboratory has launched a new CD/SACD player, the MCD550. The new player has been designed to offer exemplary playback of both CD and SACD discs and “transform the audio quality of digitally connected devices”, thanks to its three-input internal DAC. At the MCD550’s heart lies an eight-channel, 32-bit/192kHz PCM/DSD digital to analogue converter that […]
Funjoe at Clones Audio whose little 25 Watt amplifier Hifi Pig reviewed a while ago got in touch to tell us about his latest product to his rapidly expanding range of audio kit, the Sheva DAC. Special features: • DSD 64/128 and DXD (384KHz 24bit PCM) compatible • Ultra-Low Phase Noise Femto Master Clock • […]
Decent Audio in the UK got in touch to tell Hifi Pig about the launch of two new products from Audeze: the open reference LCD-X and closed-back LCD-XC.The Audeze LCD-X and LCX-XC will be officially launched in the UK at Sound & Vision 2014, Bristol, 21st – 23rd February 2014. As regular readers will know […]
LessLoss Audio are an American/Lithuanian based company headed by Louis Motek and make a wide range of audio cables including interconnects, digital cables, speaker cables plus conditioners and soon a direct drive SD player. Here Danny Worth takes a listen to their $1152 DFPC Signature Power cables. “Playing Loreena McKennits ‘Raglan Road’ it was immediately […]
Gato have announced that they will release the latest addition to their DIA range from next month. The new addition will be a preamplifier and DAC with the name PRD-3. The preamplifier will be based on the company’s DIA integrated amplifier and will include the DAC circuits from their DIA-250 and DIA-400. Price will be […]
Dynaudio have announced their new Sub, the 250 II which will retail at £750. It’s an active subwoofer with an integrated 200W amplifier and ustilising a 24cm long-throw woofer which has a 100mm voice coil. The enclosure is sealed and it will be available in four finishes. Interestingly the woofer’s coil and cone are made […]
B.M.C. Audio (Balanced Music Concept) has introduced the new PureVox speaker. The PureVox is B.M.C.’s entry-level speaker and the cpmpany claime a number of innovations for the speaker. Most conventional speakers have good depth of image in the centre of the sound-stage, but much less so at the sides. Responsible for this lack of realism are the […]
As the title may suggest the Concord USB is a powered USB cable from Astintrew and Danny Worth has been listening to one for the last few weeks. “Tones were nice and relaxed and unforced, there was an ease to the sound, a silky flow to the music and, most importantly, the nasty upper bass […]
UK Distribution company Henley designs contacted Hifi Pig to tell us about the new Quintet Series of Moving Coil (MC) phono pick-up cartridges from Ortofon. The all-new range of cartridges includes 5 models to offer a range that ties in nicely with Ortofon’s existing Cadenza Series of premium MC cartridges, and their 2M range of […]
Thomas at TSAE, whose Evince loudspeakers we reviewed, got in touch with Hifi Pig to tell us that NuNu Distribution has been appointed the official UK and US distributor for their products. Anthony Sallis at Nu Nu Distribution said “At NuNu we are admirers of the different and the bold innovators in musical reproduction. Thomas […]
Denon has announced its first standalone USB Digital to Analogue Converter, the new £329 DA-300USB DAC which boasts the same Advanced AL32 Processing and 32-bit, 192kHz digital to analogue conversion technologies of Denon’s flagship CD/SACD players. It is scheduled to hit stores in February 2014. The DAC can be connected via USB-B or the additional […]
When this diminutive Bluetooth loudspeaker arrived just before Christmas we thought that the best person to review it would be our sixteen year old son Harry as he’s potentially the target market and he’s the one with Bluetooth enabled kit. “The sound quality is very good, the bass is surprisingly rich and the high notes […]
British manufacturer Arcam of Cambridge, used CES to unveil the new FMJ A49, a 200 Watts per channel stereo integrated amplifier, hand-crafted at the company facility in Rochester New York. Arcam say this is the best and most powerful amplifier they have ever made with its 200 watts per channel Class G constant power into […]
The Airplay™ enabled A100 is a network-ready, 50w Class A/B amplifier that combines wireless streaming technologies with audio system design to bridge the divide between a world of digital music and your hi-fi speakers so that it will play your music wherever you store it – on computer, smartphone, NAS drive or the cloud, or […]