The Clarity Alliance, the UK hifi industry’s trade body, held its AGM and Conference at which it announced the appointments to its board of directors and the audience enjoyed informative presentations from a number of guest speakers. It was held once again in Dolby’s European HQ in London.
London Astrobeat Orchestra are bringing their spectacular live show to venues across the UK over the next few months. Band leader and bassist Edd Bateman has brought together West Africa’s finest session musicians to form a group that fuses rhythmic influences from Senegal, Guinea Conakry, Mali, Cameroon and Congo with the music of legendary new […]
Chord Electronics will use the UK audio show, Bristol Sound and Vision 2018, to mark the European debut of two new products, the new Qutest DAC and GoFigure, the forthcoming configuration app for the Poly music streamer.
The Forte III, as a member of the Klipsch Heritage line, is handcrafted in the USA. The original Forte was first introduced in 1985, but until now it has been out of production since 1996. The new generation Forte III has been updated over its predecessor both cosmetically and in its acoustic ability.
ECLIPSE, the Japanese loudspeaker brand, will be demonstrating their waveform reproduction technology at this year’s Sound and Vision 2018, following a collaboration with Stockton-on-Tees hi-fi distributor, Decent Audio.
McIntosh has announced the MCT500 SACD/CD Transport. The MCT500 is a digital only unit and features 4 digital outputs: industry standard balanced, coax and optical outputs plus the MCT connector. It can be paired with any product that has standard digital inputs and a DAC.
Last year, Hifi Pig visited Apurna, a French High end amplifier manufacturer based in Valence.
Ophidian will be exhibiting again at the Bristol Sound and Vision show this year in room 406.
Nordost has introduced the new Frey 2 USB Cable and Frey 2 USB C Adapter. The Frey 2 USB Cable is the first of Nordost’s USB offerings to provide both USB C and 3.0 compatibility. The Frey 2 USB C Adapter pairs with cables using Standard-A USB connectors (both 2.0 and 3.0 compatible), allowing them […]
Hifi Pig is bringing you all the news in the run up to Bristol Sound and Vision next week, and expect plenty of in depth coverage and photos from the show afterwards. Here’s some of the new product launches that visitors to the show can experience first hand…
Audeze has updated its LCD2 headphones with a fresh specification and a new entry-level suggested retail price of £599.
French loudspeaker brand Triangle has introduced two new subwoofers, expanding its Thetis and Tales ranges.
Tonight’s support act is a guy called Thabo. I assumed from his accent that he was American but when I checked out his website after the show I discovered that he was born in Zimbabwe and lives in…Huddersfield. Thabo’s songs are intelligent, tuneful and incredibly engaging. By the end of the first song he has […]
Albedo are a Poland based company that go to great lengths (excuse the pun) with their cables’ manufacture. This goes all the way back to smelting the metals and drawing their own conductors. Dominic Marsh listens to their Monolith Reference Speaker and Interconnect cables to see if is all worth their effort.
If you’re attending the UK’s largest hifi and home cinema show on 23-25 February, don’t miss the opportunity to experience iFi’s new flagship.
Quadraspire will be premiering a new range of products at Bristol this year. We encountered a small product at Munich and again at Cranage, which was the flagship model, two new products will now join this reference version…although Quadraspire are only giving us a very sneaky peek at them for now!