Hifi Pig News Round Up – January 2018
Catch up on all the Hifi News and Hifi Reviews that we covered in the first month of 2018…
Bryston And StormAudio Announce Collaboration
Bryston has announced that they will be working in collaboration with StormAudio, an audio hardware manufacturer based in France, enabling both companies to, they day, “leverage their respective design and manufacturing expertise in an array of new product offerings”. As a byproduct of the cooperative effort, Bryston will be unveiling an SP4 surround processor and […]
REVIEW – Linn Klimax DS (KATALYST) – Dedicated Streamer
Linn’s Klimax DS is a dedicated streamer with just an ethernet input to connect to your music library and yet it costs almost £16 000. Can Linn justify this high price with an equally stunning performance? Dan Worth finds out.
Quad Expands Its Artera line With The Solus
Quad, the British audio brand, has kicked off its 83rd year by adding a one-box hifi system to the Artera Series, Quad’s primary solid-state component range. The Artera Solus combines a CD transport, DAC, preamplifier and power amplifier in a single compact chassis, with connectivity options including Bluetooth wireless streaming.
Albedo Monolith Reference Speaker and Interconnect Cables
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.
Musical Fidelity M6 Encore Connect Multi Format Audio Streamer
Musical Fideity’s M6 Encore Connect is a ripper, streamer and preamplifier all in one handy, if substantial box. It costs £3629 and Lionel Payne hooked it up to his system to see if it came up to scratch.
Aurender Joins Ravenna Community
Merging Technologies, manufacturer of MERGING+NADAC (pictured), MERGING+PLAYER and MERGING+POWER has announced that it will be showing an Aurender X100 Music Server directly connected to a RAVENNA AoIP network and using a MERGING+NADAC as the DAC. This demonstration will be hosted in the joint Merging Technologies/Terrason room 255 at the Norddeutscher Hi Fi Tage in Hamburg. This […]
Linn Klimax DS (KATALYST) – Dedicated Streamer
Linn’s Klimax DS is a dedicated streamer with just an ethernet input to connect to your music library and yet it costs almost £16 000. Can Linn justify this high price with an equally stunning performance? Dan Worth finds out.
Leading Rock Star Chooses Parasound
Well-known rock star and platinum-selling artist, Fish, is endorsing the Parasound Halo integrated amplifier… expect to see a review of the Halo on Hifi pig soon).
AVID Hifi Reference Four Loudspeakers
The AVID Hifi Reference Four is a £15 000, British designed and manufactured standmount that weighs in at an impressive 40 Kg including dedicated stand. Janine Elliot takes a listen to this innovative design.
REVIEW – AVID Hifi Reference Four Loudspeakers
The AVID Hifi Reference Four is a £15 000, British designed and manufactured standmount that weighs in at an impressive 40 Kg including dedicated stand. Janine Elliot takes a listen to this innovative design.
Manger Audio Release Linn Exakt Filter Designs For Passive Loudspeaker Models
Manger Audio is now offering two filter designs for the Linn Exaktbox for its p1 (pictured) and z1 passive loudspeakers. The two filter designs use either minimum phase or linear phase filters, of which the former was developed by Daniela Manger and the latter by Linn UK themselves.
High End Audio Manufacturers Join Forces At AXPONA 2018
Gordon Waters of The Audio Company got in touch to let us know that they will present their reference system at this year’s AXPONA in Schaumberg, Ill. April 13th–15th 2018.
Kii Three Loudspeaker System launched
Kii have described their new Kii Three loudspeaker system as a “Brilliant mix of cutting-edge amplification and DSP that delivers the full-frequency dynamics of a large high-end floor stander from a super-discreet active system”.
Gryphon Audio Designs Sonett Phonostage Released
Gryphon Audio Designs of Denmark have never abandoned the LP format, maintaining, as they say, ‘a consistent commitment to vinyl reproduction from the creation of the company in 1985, right up to the launch of the new Gryphon Sonett Phonostage’.
AXPONA Announce 2018 Show
AXPONA (Audio Expo North America) will open April 13-15 at the Renaissance Schaumburg Hotel & Convention Center offering attendees three jam-packed days of sounds, technology, presentations, design, and the very latest products in the industry. Now in its ninth year, AXPONA is, say organisers JD Events, the defining, high-end audio show in the United States, which caters to dealers, distributors […]