What Effect Would A Potential Brexit Have On The UK Hifi Industry?
In this month’s Bird’s Eye View Linette Smith looks at the possible effects of Britain leaving the European Union (Brexit) on the UK’s Hifi Industry.
North West Audio Show, Cranage Hall and Wychwood Park
The North West Audio Show is now in its third year and has proved itself to be a must for anyone interested in quality home audio and music. TWO GREAT VENUES This year the North West Audio Show takes place on Sunday 26th June over two fantastic venues, Cranage Hall and Wychwood Park. Both venues […]
Tannoy To Close Scottish Facility And Move To China
Hifi Pig has just received the following message from Music, the parent company of Tannoy. MUSIC announces proposed TANNOY redundancies and possible closure of its Coatbridge Plant MUSIC has today announced that it proposes to dismiss as redundant around 70 staff at its manufacturing and office facility in Coatbridge, Scotland. The company is about to […]
AnalogueWorks, Rogue Audio and Eggleston Works At High End
Analogue Works, whose turntable we use on a daily basis, are showing all of their turntables in Atrium 4, Level 2, Room F217 along with Rogue Audio amplification and EgglestonWorks loudspeakers at this year’s High End Show. .
High End News Roundup – 6 Days To Go
With less than a week to go to this year’s High-End Munich Show here’s the news from the show from today. New From Grimm At High End Entotem – New Class A Plato For High End Show, Munich 2016 Estelon To Unveil Model YB AT High End New Amps For Chord At High End Lector […]
New From Grimm At High End
Grimm Audio adds three new products to its catalogue, expanding their range of integrated music playback systems. The most prominent novelty is the LS1be. This loudspeaker features a new Berylium tweeter with a CNC milled aluminium waveguide, jointly developed by Grimm Audio and Seas. To match the performance of this tweeter, the amplifier and converter […]
Entotem – New Class A Plato For High End Show, Munich 2016
Entotem say they are pleased to announce an addition to their Plato product range – The Class A amplifier Plato. This new power amplifier enhances Plato’s multi award winning sound while still providing all the features of the Plato Control App – all within the one unit. Entotem have made a number of software and […]
Atlas Showcase New Cables At High End
Atlas Cables from Scotland will be showcasing its wide range of specialist audio cables at High End 2016 with some new additions and exciting upgrades. Taking centre stage is the totally new Hyper dd, which takes the dd (dual drain) technology from its range-topping Asimi, Mavros and Ascent cables to deliver a cable with “high […]
Atlas Cables Budget Priced Distribution Block, Power Cables, RCAs, Speaker Cables and Optical Cables
David Robson takes these relatively budget-minded cables from Scottish manufacturer Atlas out for a drive both individually and as a full loom set up.
Estelon To Unveil Model YB AT High End
Estelon are unveiling of the Y-Series débutante loudspeakers, the Model YB, to be conducted at High End Show in Munich (May 5-8) at the MOC; Atrium 4; Room F216. “Hand-crafted in the atelier of Alfred Vassilkov, Model YB seamlessly combines exceptionally rich, natural life-like sound and the exquisite Estelon aesthetic design” says the company who never […]
New Amps For Chord At High End
Chord Electronics is showing two new proprietary-tech amplifiers at High End 2016, including the highly anticipated complementary power amp for the Hugo TT DAC (Room C122, Atrium 3) The TToby is a new desktop stereo power amplifier designed to complement the Hugo TT DAC (pictured) and take advantage of its digital preamp functionality. The TToby […]
New Affordable MC Cartridge From Clearaudio
Clearaudio have been engaged in ongoing research into moving coil (MC) technology since 1978. Still, their design team found themselves facing quite a challenge when tasked with developing a brand new cartridge that would improve on the existing entry-level Concept MC, but without breaking a key price point, says the company’s latest press release. Like […]
Lector Strumenti Audio At High End Munich
Lector Strumenti Audio will be presenting their new “R-series” at this year’s High-End Munich and you will have the opportunity to enjoy their products in their demo room, in a relaxing environment, “with a bit of Italian taste”. The demo room will be booth R01 demo room P03, Halle 4, at the High End Exhibition. Lector Strumenti Audio […]
T+A To Launch New Products At Munich High End
The High-End show in Munich is always a big event for T+A and 2016 is no exception, with this year’s show seeing the launch of the all new E-Series 1000 audio electronics and a totally new range of loudspeakers – Pulsar. The All New 1000 R Series consists of three products – R 1000 E […]
Trinnov At High End
French firm Trinnov that designs and manufactures preamplifiers and processors featuring loudspeaker/room optimization and 3D sound technologies will be at the High End Munich show next week in Atrium 4.0 / F203. The company say they are looking forward to the event and will be demoing the following kit. The Altitude32, their flagship AV Preamplifier […]
Amphion’s Argon3S At High End Munich 2016
Finnish loudspeaker manufacturer, Amphion Loudspeakers, officially launched its passive studio monitors line at the NAMM show in January 2015. Argon3S keeps many aspects of Amphion’s bookshelf speaker Argon3, while incorporating the passive radiator and crossover technology from the studio monitors. Amphion say that one of the distinguishing features of Argon3S, as well as all the […]