North West Audio Show 2016 Free E-Magazine
Download your free copy of Hifi Pig’s FREE 66 page special supplement for the last months North West Audio Show. There’s loads of reports from the show, photos and more…
Project VC-S Record Cleaning Machine
Project have a well deserved name for producing great products at great prices, but £299 for a vacuum record cleaning machine really does seem to be very good value, at least on paper. Ian Ringstead puts a few of his grimier charity shop finds through the VC-S to find out if it sucks or not!
PiL – The Liquid Room, Edinburgh
Forty years have passed since the summer of 1976, that long, hot summer when punk’s adrenaline rush threatened to sweep away anything and everything that threatened to get in its way. The Sex Pistols were punk rock’s leading lights and singer Johnny Rotten was punk’s poster boy, although whether the band were a credible threat […]
Chartwell LS3/5 Loudspeakers by Graham Audio
There are classic loudspeakers and there are classic loudspeakers. Janine Elliot takes a listen to the Chartwell LS3/5 Loudspeakers by Graham Audio costing between £1650 and £1800. The creation of a classic?
Clones Audio Announce Server
There is something new from Clones Audio and it’s called The Host. The Host is the first digital music server of CLones Audio and comes equipped with a high performance USB digital audio output, Ethernet port, solid-state drive for music storage and full linear power supply with the super low noise regulator modules. Host runs a custom Linux […]
Analogue vs Digital Shoot Out
Analogue vs Digital Battle. We came across CODE recently at the North West Audio show where they had their fully active loudspeaker system on demonstration and they’ll be representing the digital corner at the upcoming digital vs analogue shootout at Hifi Hangar on Saturday 23rd July.
Electromod Introduces Next-Generation of MrSpeakers ETHER Flow Headphones
MrSpeakers, is a San Diego-based manufacturer of high performance headphones, and is introducing ETHER Flow and ETHER C Flow with patent pending TrueFlow and V-Planar technologies. “TrueFlow technology elevates award-winning ETHER and ETHER C headphones to the next level in performance (and fun) while Italian leather ear pads lend a plusher feel to the headphone” […]
Absolute Sounds To Distribute dCS Audio Equipment In UK
Absolute Sounds say it is pleased to announce its appointment as sole UK distributor of dCS audio equipment with immediate effect. Based near Cambridge, dCS is a world leader in digital audio replay systems for domestic and professional use. The company is widely acknowledged to have pushed the digital audio performance envelope as a result […]
UNAMAS Encode In MQA
UNAMAS, the Japanese hi-res music label run by award-winning recording engineer, Mick Sawaguchi, has selected ten albums from its catalogue for encoding in MQA. The recordings, ranging from Schubert’s “Death and the Maiden” performed by the Unamas String Quintet, to Hiroshi Fukamizu’s “Everything for Drums”, will be available from 15 July 2016 on music download service, e-onkyo […]
Flare Audio Isolate and Isolate Pro
Janine Elliot is keen to protect her hearing so she can continue listening to hifi and playing music for years to come…she think you too should be passionate about this too and so takes a “listen” to the new Flare Audio Isolate and Isolate Pro inner ear defenders priced from £23 to £46.
North West Audio Show 2016 – Roundup Part 2
Stuart Smith rounds up the North West Audio Show 2016 with his final article from the show.
North West Audio Show 2016 – Roundup Part 1
Stuart Smith takes int he sights and sounds of this year’s North West Audio Show …part 1
Cambridge Audio Offer Free Google Chromecast
For a limited time only Cambridge Audio are offering all new and existing customers of the brand’s Universal Blu–ray player, the CXU, the option to easily add the functionality and convenience of Netflix, iPlayer and many more streaming services to their players via the offer of a free google Chromecast. CXU owners will also get the added […]
Burson Announce New DAC, Headamp, Preamp
Burson got in touch with Hifi Pig to tell us they are introducing the pocket sized, USB powered “Conductor Air”. Details are pretty scant at the moment but they say that just like its full sized sibling, its a USB DAC, Head amp, Preamp 3 in 1 unit. Key Features: 185g uni-body aluminium enclosure […]
Timestep Modified Technics 1200 GAE
Devon-based Timestep has garnered quite a reputation for its fully sanctioned modifications of various iconic Technics turntables. Now, designer Dave Cawley turns his attention to the recently-launched SL-1200 GAE deck and comes up with yet more cannily-crafted advancements in the form of the new Timestep EVOke, and we very much like the look of this […]
Special Edition Stenheims At Montreux Jazz Festival
Swiss manufacturer Stenheim say they are proud to have been chosen by the world famous Montreux Jazz Festival (which is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year) and will be producing a limited edition of their Alumine TWO speakers which will be available for purchase in the Festival shop, situated in the event’s main hall. 25 […]