Remember the amazing Anki Overdrive? Well, Anki has just released a free app update that allows players to customise their battle-racing experience with modifiers. Thanks to their unique software-driven product that converges toys, videogames and robotics, Anki is able to continually support Anki Overdrive with new features throughout the year to enhance the gameplay experience […]
AGON is the new gaming monitor line-up which has just been launched by AOC, one of the global top brands in the display market. “Developed for Awesomeness”, that’s the opening gambit from AOC. The AGON series has been created with the sole intention of delivering the utmost gaming features and outstanding designs to the vast […]
The DALI Rubicon 5 are slender and good-looking floor-standing speakers, but how do they sound? DALI have been designing and manufacturing loudspeakers since 1983 and are located in Denmark – hence their name: Danish Audiophile Loudspeaker Industries. DALI’s current Hi-Fi speaker range spans more than 50 models spread over 11 product lines ranging from Soundbars […]
That’s not a misprint – We could well see the Note 6 in three month’s time. Yup. Word on the street is that Samsung is gearing up to release the Note 6 in July. It seems that Samsung wants to keep its Note fans guessing as there hasn’t really been a fix release period for […]
Ruark have introduced new features to their retro inspired music centre, the R7, which was first introduced in 2013. Ruark say “with eye-catching styling and amazing audio quality, the R7 is a revolutionary music centre in the true spirit of the classic radiogram, designed to reignite people’s passion for music and radio”. The audio enhancements […]
Hifi Pig’s coverage of this year’s Sound and Vision – The Bristol Show with all the awards, comment and loads of photographs taken at the show. The e magazine has been kindly sponsored by Clarity Alliance.
This dropped on my desk a couple of months ago and I really wasn’t expecting much of it. It’s from a period of music that wasn’t great in my opinion and from an artist I admit I’d heard nothing of previously. And so it stayed in its protective covering for longer than it really should. […]
The £995 TR-5 S2 loudspeaker has already been extensively reviewed by other hifi magazines over the years since its introduction, so why is Hifi Pig reviewing them now I hear you ask? Dominic Marsh will explain. “The real star of this show is without doubt the ribbon tweeter that Roksan have incorporated into the design and sets […]
Winner of a CE Pro Best Award at CEDIA Expo 2015, the TOT AVR builds upon Torus Power’s TOT Series of toroidal isolation transformers, adding Automatic Voltage Regulation (AVR). Torus Power’s TOT AVR provides isolation from the outside power grid for three power outlets through a Plitron-designed and built toroidal isolation transformer. This component is […]
Principia collection is the new entry level line offered by Sonus faber, who say that the collection is designed for “Those who are seeking a simple hifi solution but with a definite Italian touch at an affordable price – all without giving up on perfect music reproduction.” The inspiration behind this collection is Sonus faber’s […]
I like Tangerine Dream a lot and it’s fair to say they are probably the first music that wasn’t mainstream pop that I was exposed to in my early teens. I used to babysit for my cousin and her Father (my Uncle) Keith had an interesting record collection that I used to dip into whenever […]
Club Homage, out on the 29th April, follows on from Somerville’s (yes, he of Bronski Beat and The Communards fame) disco album of last year called “Homage”. Now I’m a bit of a sucker for disco and love some of the people who are involved in remixing some of the tracks from Homage for Club […]
Most readers who have heard the name Alan Davey will naturally associate him as the bass player for space-rock stalwarts Hawkwind where he manned the bass from 1984 to 1996 and the again between 2001 and 2007. But he’s had loads of other projects away from Hawkwind including Bedouin, Ace Of Spades, Gunslinger, Eclectic Devils […]
The little boy in me has always been curious as to how things work, which inevitably meant I would take things apart and then try to put them back together again, not always successfully I might add. Mechanical and electronic objects still fascinate me, and whenever I go into a DIY store the tools section […]
The £995 TR-5 S2 loudspeaker has already been extensively reviewed by other hifi magazines over the years since its introduction, so why is Hifi Pig reviewing them now I hear you ask? Dominic Marsh will explain.
The Remton 383 Mk 2 Phonostage is made in Prague, uses a trio of ECC83s valves and costs a smidgen over £1000, Janine Elliot tries it in her system for Hifi Pig. “My initial awareness was of a surprisingly efficient output and quiet noise level allowing the music to come through both loud and clear […]