Minute EL-34 SE Valve Amplifier
At £885 the Minute EL-34 valve certainly looks to offer good value for money with its separate power supply. Add another £150 and you get a full compliment of cryo’d valves. Ian Ringstead takes a listen.
Various – Let’s Go Down And Blow Our Minds (The British Psychedelic Sounds of 1967) (Cherry Red)
When I was a youth I had the door to my bedroom painted with all psychedelic patterns, dragons, mushrooms and the like. Somewhere on the door I also had a poem that started “I am Bufo bufo, not yet rested from the great work” and on the frame over the door I had “It’s an […]
Mark-Levinson № 526 Dual- Monaural Preamplifier At Karma-AV
Karma-AV have announced the availability of the Mark-Levinson № 526 dual- monaural preamplifier. The № 526 is a 12-input dual-monaural design featuring Pure Path circuit topology, a class-A ‘Pure Phono’ stage, a 32-bit DAC, and a class-A Main Drive Headphone output. Designed and engineered at HARMAN’s Engineering Centre of Excellence in Shelton, CT, USA, the […]
The Tomcats – Running At Shadows : The Spanish Recordings 1965 – 1966 (RPM)
The Tomcats were a British R&B/Mod band formed in Ealing in 1965 but it is in Spain they were most well known. The story goes that just before they were about to make it big on the R&B scene in London the band jumped in a van (bought by one of the band’s mum) and […]
PMC Appoints Franco Lock
PMC is enhancing its operations in the Asia Pacific territory through the appointment of Franco Lock as business development manager to drive the company’s expansion plans throughout this key market. Based in Hong Kong, Lock has over 10 years’ experience in the Asia Pacific region audio industry, having worked for other prestigious audio brands in business development […]
Pink Floyd Saucerful Of Secrets.
This month, John Scott revisits the 1968 classic from Pink Floyd, Saucerful Of Secrets.
Michel Legrand – Bonjour Paris
This months offering from él records was recorded in 1956 and is Michel Legrand’s homage to the French capital where he was born in 1932. You may not necessarily know the name but you are sure to know some of his tunes as he’s got around 200 film scores to his credit and if you’re […]
Lyn Stanley – Interludes
Lyn Stanley is the darling of the audiophile community and she certainly knows how to press our collective buttons to get us all in a lather over her recordings. Not content with just releasing her music on CD, she also releases her output on Reel2Reel and very high quality vinyl too – you may have […]
The Great British Recording Studios – Howard Massey
Howard Massey knows a thing or two about the music industry and is a long-time music journo and consultant to the pro-audio side of things. He’s been a touring/session musician, songwriter, recording engineer and producer, not to mention having written a dozen or so books used in recording school curricula including Behind The Glass and […]
Nelson Pass’ First Watt Introduces New F7 Power Amplifier
First Watt’s new F7 power amplifier (MSRP: $3,000) is a very unique power amplifier says the company’s press release that’s just landed at Hifi Pig. It’s a two-stage push-pull JFET (input)/MOSFET (output) topology with fewer parts than any First Watt amplifier to date. The new F7 has been created as an updated version of the earlier F5 amplifier. Conceived in […]
Naim Superuniti
The £3785 Naim Superuniti is an all in one box streamer, DAC and amplifier, but is it a Jack of all trades and master of none? John Scott finds out for Hifi Pig.
Harmony Interconnect By Black Rhodium
Harmony is a new stereo interconnect cable from Black Rhodium hand built at the Black Rhodium factory in Derby employing advanced design techniques developed by Black Rhodium for use in its most expensive products. The wires in Harmony are insulated in silicone rubber “because its low dielectric loss ensures extremely low distortion due to dielectric absorption effects in which […]
ATC SCM19A (Active) Loudspeakers
The ATC SCM19A active loudspeakers have onboard amps and active crossovers more often seen in pro audio, but these £4990/pair speakers are designed most specifically for the home environment. Dan Worth plugs them in and assesses their merits.
New Flagship IEMs From Noble Audio
Noble Audio, announces its new flagship model Katana, complete with nine proprietary drive units for each ear and available in both universal- and custom-fit versions Noble Audio has launched a new flagship in-ear monitor which, for the first time, features proprietary Noble drive units. The range-topping Katana IEM benefits from nine custom-made drive units for each ear and […]
William S. Burroughs – Let Me Hang You
Choose a word from the following: Warped, debased, putrid, twisted. And one from these: Brilliance, originality, ingenuity, inventiveness. And there you have this album pretty much reviewed and condensed into two words. For the record I’d have gone for “Twisted Brilliance” for this is what you have here. Let Me Hang You is not for […]
Syd Lawrence with Clare Teal – Mike Valentine, Chasing the Dragon
Hifi Pig’s Janine Elliot is invited along to world famous AIR Studios where BBC Radio 2s Clare Teal joins the Syd Lawrence Orchestra for a direct to disc recording session. Read on, it’s fascinating!