BBC News has reported that Sainsbury’s have now decided to jump on the vinyl bandwagon and are to start flogging the black stuff in their supermarkets. On a recent visit to England I also noticed that Tesco are doing likewise, though given that the paltry number of discs was in a display in a corner […]
The Vinyl Collection brings together seven studio albums recorded by Deep Purple between 1972 and 1987, these albums being: Machine Head, Who Do We Think We Are, Burn, Stormbringer, Come Taste The Band, Perfect Strangers and The House Of Blue Light.
Dominic Marsh takes this €840 package of amp, speakers and speaker cables from TAGA Harmony for a spin. “The word to best describe the sound was “balanced” in that treble and bass were in equilibrium, midband was clean and clear, so it was no effort at all just to sit back and enjoy what I […]
Janine Elliot plumbs in these £1750 interconnects from Polish company KBL into her system to see what she will find. “Carlos Franzetti “The Jazz Kamerata” had a depth of sound I really got hooked on; the full colour from the piano, string warmth, flute and saxophone were all placed where I expected, with excellent decays […]
For this month’s Classic Album, John Scott engages warp drive and blasts off into space in the company of Hawkwind and their epic Space Ritual album.
In this month’s instalment of Retro Bites where we focus on classic and vintage audio, Janine Elliot takes a look at the Nakamichi TX 1000 Turntable.
I attended only my second ever Hifi show today at the Doubletree Hilton Hotel, which is just a few hundred yards from Junction 12 off the M53 at Chester. This event, held over two days was hosted and organised by Geoff from Acoustica, a Hifi shop in Chester I visited recently for a speaker demonstration.
Dominic Marsh takes this €840 package of amp, speakers and speaker cables from TAGA Harmony for a spin.
Earlier this week we were saying goodbye to my Father and over the days that followed it really struck me how much of a force for bringing people together music is. Read on…it’s not as maudlin as you might think!
Janine Elliot plumbs in these £1750 interconnects from Polish company KBL into her system to see what she will find.
Quad unveils its latest loudspeaker range, the Z Series – the first of many new products planned for 2016 in celebration of the British audio brand’s 80th year. Like the S Series, which launched in 2015 to widespread acclaim, the new range combines advanced Kevlar-coned bass and midrange drivers with a specially designed ribbon tweeter. […]
Ferguson Hill have just launched an updated version of their fH007 mini loudspeaker system. It has updated Neodymium drive units for an improved frequency response and also comes with a bluetooth receiver to wirelessly stream your music from any smartphone or tablet…and we at Hfi Pig reckon it looks pretty smart. They retail at £ […]
Opera Loudspeakers say they are delighted to announce the newest addition to their Classica Series of hifi loudspeakers, the Prima, a two way reflex loaded speaker. “The Prima has been designed to be as efficient, stylish and easy-to- place as possible; suiting it to a wide variety of high-quality audio systems, say the company. The […]
ATC Loudspeaker Technology is celebrating the 70th birthday of its founder and Managing Director Billy Woodman with a ‘Signature’ version of a landmark ATC design. Based on the SCM10 mini monitor from 1990, the Signature Edition SCM10SE is an “immaculate reworking of the breakthrough model” say the company. Presented in a lustrous ATC blue piano […]
California’s Noble Audio is launching a brand new range of universal-fit in-ear monitors. The new five-strong line-up will be unveiled for the first time at CanJam SoCal 2016 in California (19th/20th March). The all-new models replace Noble’s previous acrylic-body universal-fit series and introduce high-grade aluminium end-caps with composite bodies across the range, with each model […]
Romanian manufacturer Rockna have announced the new Wavedream DAC series will be available in the UK soon. There are 2 main models : Edition (featuring Rockna RD-1 discrete DAC modules) and Signature (featuring Rockna RD-0 discrete DAC modules) with each version being available in single ended or balanced configuration. In addition to the Femtovox clock […]