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Aurender Upgrades Software

Aurender has announced that their latest downloadable software upgrade, System SW 4.5.58 (5.5.58), adds several new features, including: Qobuz high fidelity streaming, and the company’s unique Smart Copy®function that allows direct music uploading, within their Conductor App, to any Aurender Music Streamer/Player’s internal HDD directly from your NAS or external USB drive, without using a PC or Mac. These new […]

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Leema Elements Preamplifier With DAC

Leema Acoustics’ Elements range has expanded to include a new preamp with a high-quality DAC section, offering a wide range of connectivity for today’s digital devices. The new Elements Pre-Amplifier builds on the Leema Acoustics’ Elements integrated, adding a high-quality balanced output.  The new Elements Pre-Amplifier retains the familiar half-width-chassis form factor of the Elements […]

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Mr Speakers Ether C Headphones

At £1250 with the standard cable or £1350 with the Premium cable, the Mr Speakers Ether C headphones certainly fall into the high-end price bracket, but will they deliver on sound quality? Janine Elliot finds our for Hifi Pig.

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New Monoblocks From KR Audio

The new KR VA 200 monoblocks with the KR 842vhd tube application from KR Audio will be presented at the Melia Hotel in Milan for the Milano Hi-End show, Saturday and Sunday, April 2-3, 2016 in the Turchese room by Mr. Luigi Bocca of LAB Audio Technology Amministrazione as a world debut before the official presentation at the Munich […]

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New Releases Announced By Reel-To-Reel Label, Analogy Records

Reel-to-reel, audiophile label, Analogy Records, announces its plans for the first half of 2016, adding 3 more titles to the catalogue, for a total of 12 albums available on magnetic tape. Andrea Celeste’s “Kaleidoscope” is the upcoming release, an intense acoustic pop album recorded by the legendary Producer, 24 times Grammy winner Al Schmitt. “Suite […]

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Etalon strEamer Review

The Etalon strEamer is a mini server made in Hungary and costing €550. John Scott wires it into his system for Hifi Pig.  ” I said at the beginning of this review that the Squeezebox was my benchmark of minimum quality.  Initially, comparisons were favourable; the strEamer sounded as good as the Touch.  Over time, I […]

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Munich High End Latest News

Based on the initial projections of the German music industry association (BVMI), the turnover of music sales in Germany for the year 2015 increased by   3.9%. Audio streaming was at the forefront in the growth trends with a 96.6% increase. Behind all the “new” download and music streaming services lies a societal change that one […]

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Munich High-End – It’s All About The Music

Based on the initial projections of the German music industry association (BVMI), the turnover of music sales in Germany for the year 2015 increased by   3.9%. Audio streaming was at the forefront in the growth trends with a 96.6% increase. Behind all the “new” download and music streaming services lies a societal change that one […]

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Budget Speakers From Mission

LX-2 and LX-3 are the first speakers to arrive from Mission’s all-new entry-level LX Series which the company says will deliver exceptional sound at affordable prices.  For the LX Series, the speakers’ design has been stripped design back to its fundamentals to produce a range of speakers that Mission can be proud of in engineering […]

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Huawei and Leica to reinvent smartphone snaps

Huawei and Leica have just this moment announced the start of a strategic partnership, “a co-operation with shared premium ambitions and spirit”, which will see both technology and photography brands combining their shared ethos to “reinvent” smartphone photography. Huawei has certainly come a long way since becoming recognised as the world’s third-largest smartphone manufacturer in […]

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Nerf N-Strike Pocketstrike foam dart gun

Have you Nerfed someone who has promised their Nerf revenge but you just don’t know when they’ll strike? Well, there are occasions when you can’t be walking around armed with your favourite sponge-projectile firing weapon of choice. So what do you do? Do you leave home unarmed? Nope. Not now, anyway. Get the whole story […]

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HTC One M10 officially leaked

The HTC One M10 has just gone all official thanks to a ‘leak’ by… errr… HTC. Have you had enough of smartphones this week thanks to Mobile World Congress? Well, HTC is hoping not as they’ve just slipped out a little teaser. Get the whole story at GadgetyNews.  

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Mighty is the Spotify iPod Shuffle

Mighty by name, tiny by nature. This is the latest audio player but it has been built with the sole purpose of squirting Spotify in to your ears when you’re out and about. Jogging with your phone attached to you can be a bit meh, especially if you’re at the gym and don’t need your […]

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Intempo Retro Blaster review

The Intempo Retro Blaster continues the company’s fascination with past decades. Not so long ago I reviewed their 50s-style jukebox and today I take a look at their modern take on a 70s/80s classic – the ghetto blaster. For those of you too young to remember when portable audio meant a small, mono, transistor radio […]