GadgetyNews

The Indulgence Show – top 10 things to know

You may have heard that there’s a new Hi-Fi expo heading to London soon called The Indulgence Show. But it promises to be more than just another hotel taken over by high-end audio. I have had the great opportunity of asking Vernon Hamblin a few questions about how The Indulgence Show will be a different […]

GadgetyNews

Wraps earphone bracelet review

Wraps earphones, if you remember my article announcing their release at the end of last year, you will recall that these earbuds wrap around your wrist. Wraps are an intriguing offering. You may already be aware that I am more a fan of over-ear type headphones than shoving something in my lug-holes. The thing is, […]

Hifi News

Hifi Pig Extra & GadgetyNews May 2016 Is Out

The MAY edition of Hifi Pig Magazine and Gadgety News is out and ready for FREE download.   It’s packed with Hifi and Gadget reviews of course but this month we have a great interview with the man who discovered Prince and help write his first hit single, plus a special report on the possible […]

Hifi News

Affordable Tangential Tonearm From Clearaudio

Clearaudio are offering vinyl fans a more affordable entry point into tangential tonearm technology, with their new TT5 Tonearm. The first tangential tonearm (also known as ‘linear tracking’, ‘parallel tracking’ or ‘straight line’) was reportedly devised by Thomas Edison and featured on the Edison Phonograph from 1877. But the technique of parallel tracking was abandoned […]

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Trinnov At High End Munich 2016

Trinnov will be at High End Munich 2016 showing a quad-amplified system including eight mono Mola-Mola Kaluga amplifiers and the five-driver, four way Vivid Audio Giya G2 loudspeakers. The Trinnov Altitude32-88 is the heart of this system, serving as preamp, DAC, and Network player for streaming audio. The Altitude32 will also provide the optimised four-way active crossovers […]

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Franc Audio At High End

Franc Audio will be at this year’s High End Show in Munich where they will be exhibiting with Lawrence Audio and Ludwig Audio. France Audio will have a brand new power distributor being used, something they are calling Power On-e.

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Pure Audio Project Open Baffles At High End

Pure Audio Project have been in touch with Hifi Pig to tell us that the recently announced Trio15 A5000 open baffle loudspeaker system will be launched and playing at Munich High End Show next week ! The Trio15 A5000 features: WVL A5000 Full Range Field Coil Driver Trio15 Modular Open Baffle Chassis (Aluminium Frame and Baffles) OB-A15NEO […]

Hifi News

ELAC Announce New Flagship Speaker and New Turntables

This year ELAC celebrates its 90th anniversary and, as well as the first European showing of their Uni-Fi speakers and Discovery and Debut electronics products, the company have two new and rather special products being launched. First of all is the Concerto, the  new  ELAC  flagship  loudspeaker, launched to mark the 90th anniversary and cement […]

Live Music Music News

Nikki Lane – The Voodoo Rooms, Edinburgh

Nikki Lane’s 2014 album All Or Nothin’ fused country songwriting with Spectoresque Be My Baby drums, glam rock handclaps and Muscle Shoals electric piano.  Tonight, there are no drums, no piano; just Nikki and her Fender acoustic with back up from special guest Jonathan Tyler on guitar and harmonica but Lane’s rock and roll attitude […]

Hifi News

Clearaudio & Larsen Open Day At The Audio Barn

The Audio Barn in Old Harlow, Essex got in touch with Hifi Pig to tell us about a great sounding event they have coming up on the 13th and 14th May. It’s a Clearaudio/Larsen open day but with a twist.  They’ll be featuring the Clearaudio Concept (Pictured) and Performance DC turntables through Naims SuperNait integrated amplifier, and […]

Comment Retro Bites

Turntable Designs That Could Have Taken Off. Part 1

In the first of her series of articles looking at turntable designs that could have taken off, Janine Elliot looks at a clever doodad from the days of 78s from Garrard called The World Record, created by Noel Pemberton-Billing, the chap that set up Supermarine Aircraft Company which made the iconic Spitfire of World War […]