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The North West Audio Show 2015 Photographs
Hifi Pig are the official media partners for The North West Audio Show that took place last weekend in the glorious surroundings of Cranage Hall in the North West, UK. This was a really fabulous day out with great exhibitors and loads of very enthusiastic visitors. Hifi Pig will be publishing a special PDF magazine next […]
Graham Slee Owners Club and Loaner Program
UK based manufacturer Graham Slee is a name well known in audio circles and Graham has recently been in touch with Hifi Pig to tell us about an interesting concept the company has hatched, to help their current customers and attract new ones. Whilst this isn’t news per se; it is certainly new to us and we thought […]
Loudspeakers At High End Munich
Lots more photographs of loudspeakers from this year’s High End show in Munich.
System Pictures From Munich High End 2015
A slideshow of some of the great systems that were at this year’s Munich High End. Enjoy
Spectral Mornings Various (cherry-red)
We don’t often review singles here at Hifi Pig but this one is for a good cause and so it’s going in the news section too to give it maximum exposure.
Turntables at Munich High End 2015
There was no shortage of analogue kit at this year’s High End in Munich with some being readily accessible to the man in the street and with others commanding footballer or lottery winner prices. Whatever, everyone loves to ogle at a great turntable and there were plenty to gawp at at this year’s High End. […]
Munich High End 2015 – Bird’s Eye View Part The Intro
2015 : The year High End Munich turned Pink ! So, Stuart has filled you in on our adventures on the way to Munich. We found ourselves at our hotel on Schillerstrasse, just a few minutes walk from the main train station. At first glance this area is what might be described as ‘a bit dodgy’ ……there […]
Portable Audio – The Game Changer?
For the last 10 days Hifi Pig’s Linette and Stuart have been fortunate enough to have been privy to what its makers are claiming to be the “game changer” in portable personal audio technology. Whilst we have not been permitted to perform an all out review of the item in question we have managed to […]
Belle and Sebastian – Girls In Peacetime Want to Dance (Matador)
Few bands bifurcate opinion as vociferously as Belle and Sebastian. Many people simply can’t see past the image of them fostered in their early publicity shots and sleeve notes: Duffel coat donning, butterfly net wielding perma-students gathered in a gang like some Vimto version of Dexys Midnight Runners. Building that band brand was a calculated […]
Naim Use CES 2015 To Announce Lumina Range Of Interconnects and Speaker Cables
Naim has revealed its new Super Lumina range of interconnects and speaker cables, developed in parallel with Statement, its flagship amplification system. The brief was simple say Naim, “Design a range of cables that would complement and allow the maximum performance of Statement as well as Naim 500 Series and Classic products. Starting with a […]
Mike New Precision Bearing for Technics SL1200 | 1210
Advertising Promotion To realize the full potential of the “Techy” this bearing is essential. Precision manufactured not a modified stock bearing, easy to fit with full installation instructions. Only £445 delivered in the UK from MCRU stock and supplied with a “Free” set of Techniboots isolation feet which fit over the stock Techy feet, worth […]
Audeze LCD-X Headphones
Advertising Promotion If you want reference-quality headphones that take you closer to the music, Audeze’s LCD-X have to be heard. Audeze’s Award winning headphones are based on planar magnetic technology, which offers numerous benefits over traditional headphone design – see our tech boxout below for more details! The LCD-X is an extremely efficient headphone that extracts […]
The Bellagio Conquest Black King Turntable
The press release that has just landed on our desktop here at Hifi Pig says that “The Bellagio Conquest Black King is the limited edition, ultimate evolution of the best turntable ever designed by Gold Note featuring some great innovations adding the unique technical details of the Bellagio Conquest introduced during the end of 2013”. […]