NuNu Distribution Ltd and Optoma launch a new partnership today to expand the NuForce audio range across the UK. Anne Duhig-Reader, Managing Director of NuNu Distribution said: “We pride ourselves on supplying only the best audio brands and Optoma NuForce has a great reputation borne out by the glowing reviews the products receive. Combining our […]
The Nēo ACE from Moon is “A Complete Experience of musical ecstasy” says the company’s press release. The all-in-one ACE is an integrated amplifier and streaming DAC music player so all you need do is simply hook up a pair of speakers, connect to the internet and play. The ACE features Moon’s MiND* control system […]
DISCO is big at Hifi Pig Towers and many a Saturday night is spent strutting our stuff around the listening room…there’s even talk of us getting a mirror-ball. So what better than this album by all girl three piece that had a huge hits in ’79 with Strut Your Funky Stuff (you’ll know it of […]
Out on the 29th July I’m A Freak Baby is really going to appeal to a certain kind of person…and I count myself in with this lot. As a teen I had hair down my back, wore an Afghan coat, stank of patchouli oil and listened to psych rock and heavy rock from the late […]
sMS-200 is a new generation of mini network player with built in ‘Media Player Board’ developed by SOtM that will cost $450. sMS-200 has a dedicated ARM processor board that has been developed for only audio. SOtM developed the product just for audio sound performance, getting rid of all unnecessary features concentrating on the high […]
At £14500 for the pair, the Grandinote Proemio preamp and Silva power amplifier are far from bargain basement fodder, but do they warrant such a price-tag? Stuart Smith finds out.
You may have recently read about two girls from Norfolk who look uncannily similar but are, in fact, unrelated. Rosa and Jenny are both 17, met when they were 4 years’ old and have been inseparable ever since. Together, they make music under the moniker Let’s Eat Grandma. Whether or not you enjoy their debut album […]
UK based Veracity Audio’s Mystra is a dual mono design with dual DAC architecture. The dedicated 24bit dual mono, multi-bit conversion handles PCM files without sample rate change and the stand-alone ∆Σ DAC/reconstruction filter offers playback of DSD64 and DSD128 natively without digital processing. The DAC features auto-switching with incoming signal file format, directing DSD […]
We at Hifi Pig recently bought and absolutely raved about the half speed master version of the John Martyn album Solid Air released on vinyl by Abbey Road. Miles Showell is the mastering engineer behind the project and Hifi Pig caught up with him for a chat. Read the full interview with Miles Showell of Abbey […]
We at Hifi Pig recently bought and absolutely raved about the half speed master version of the John Martyn album Solid Air released on vinyl by Abbey Road. Miles Showell is the mastering engineer behind the project and Hifi Pig caught up with him for a chat.
Hifi Pig’s coverage of the Munich High End show is now available for FREE download. There’s over 140 pages of comment, photographs, inerviews and reports in this bumper edition that has been sponsored by Tellurium Q. As well as all the great content one lucky reader will have the chance to win a Hifi Pig […]
The long-awaited DAC/valve headphone amp and preamp from the Danish brand Copland has arrived in the UK courtesy of Absolute Sounds. DAC 215 is a Universal Hi-res DAC, Preamplifier and Headphone amp. The heart of the DA215 is a D/A converter with multiple S/PDIF inputs, PCM, and DSD capabilities using the ES9018 Reference 32-bit […]
The Women In Hifi group continues its march forward following its inaugural meeting at High End Munich with a gathering at this year’s T.H.E. Show Newport Beach
Karma-AV say they are delighted to announce the availability of the Mark-Levinson № 536 monaural power amplifier to UK dealers, installers and customers. Engineered to deliver a substantial 400W into 8 ohms and 800W into 4 ohms, the № 536 will drive demanding loudspeaker loads to generous volume levels even in larger rooms. It […]
Focal have announced their new high-end line of headphones equipped with exclusive innovations they say offer “remarkable sound performance and an unrivalled audiophile experience true to the brand’s core values”. Utopia are the reference high-fidelity headphones manufactured in France by Focal. Equipped with exclusive technology, they offer striking realism, neutrality, dynamics and clarity, for sound […]
Flamingo Audio have quite a line up for The North West Audio Show….take a look. JK ACOUSTICS Reference CD Transport The JK Reference is a high end CD Transport made in the Netherlands, priced just under £4K. It utilizes a Philips CDM12 Pro transport mechanism installed on a 15mm thick aluminium plate suspended on 4 […]