Comment Voice of Dom

Mains Cables – Part Two

Dominic Marsh continues with his personal thoughts on mains cables and why he believes they can make substantial improvements in the sound of your hifi.   Hifi Pig does not advocate anyone making ANY unauthorized or unsafe changes to their mains supply or equipment in ANY way! Always consult a professional and qualified electrician. 

Hifi News

aria Piccolo Music Server

Introduced at Hi-End Munich in 2013, aria are a family of music servers designed for people for whom a powerful and easy-to-use music library management tool is crucial.  “aria servers series are the only ones on the market to support an unlimited number of extended metadata fields for any music genre” the company’s most recent press […]

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Didit High-End and Voxtok Combine Talents

Voxtok, designing high-end HiFi connected devices and solutions, and DiDiT High-End, specialising in creating high quality audio products, have announced their technological partnership to combine their experience, passion and R&D.  Voxtok will focus on providing its current and next range of products based on its Voxtok Music services and advanced software for audio and TV, […]

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New Elara Speaker Range From Triangle

Triangle, the French loudspeaker manufacturer are to launch a new range of loudspeakers named Elara. Details of the new loudspeakers are scant at the moment but we do have some photographs of the new range for you to have a look at. What we do know is that there will be four different models in […]

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Chord Electronics Mojo Official Photographs

Of course Hifi Pig covered he launch of Chord Electronics new Mojo live from the Shard on Facebook and Twitter so our readers could be the first people in the world to get information about this product. We also covered the news item as soon as we had the info available, but now we have […]

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Chord Electronics New Baby – Mojo

Well, the audio press airwaves have been all aflutter for the last month or so, ever since a certain envelope dropped in our collective mailboxes. The envelope contained an invitation from Chord Electronics to a “Lunch and Launch” on the thirty third floor of The Shard in London town. The promise was of champagne, canapés […]

Accessories Cables Hifi Reviews

MCRU Excelsior DC Blocker

DC on the mains supply has been a hot topic in the last few years as audiophiles understand the importance of a “clean” supply. Ian Ringstead fits the MCRU Excelsior DC Blocker to his system to see what effect it has. 

Live Music Music News

Linn Lounge – Rox, Edinburgh

If you are a hifi enthusiast, you may well think that there would be no better way to spend a couple of hours than listening to a system from one of the world’s most respected hifi companies.  You would, however, be wrong. 

Album Reviews

Various – 8 Ensembles in 1 Bit Stereo (Native Stereo)

Producer/Engineers Jared Sacks and Daan van Aalst have pooled their expertise in music production and recording in very high resolution audio. Their goal is to put together the best system for recording and reproducing music at the highest quality with recordings in the new DSD 256fs (quad rate DSD) format, although 8 Ensembles is available in DSD 256, 128 and 64. It’s the […]

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New AV Amps From Arcam

Arcam will be previewing their 2016 AVR range in Dallas this coming weekend, to coincide with the CEDIA 2015 Show. They will be showing (but not playing) samples at the Arcam Solo Event on Weds 4th November. “These new AVR’s are quite simply, the highest performing AV receivers Arcam has ever made and some of the finest in […]

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Prudential BluesFest 2015

The O2 will host its first ever blues festival next month as Prudential BluesFest arrives at the world’s number one music and entertainment venue for three days of incredible music featuring performances from over forty acts. Alongside a stellar line-up of ticketed evening shows, which include Grammy-winning blues-rock group Tedeschi Trucks Band, a superstar double bill from Van Morrison […]

Comment Retro Bites

Stax

Janine Elliot takes us on a brief tour of the history of Japanes company Stax, who many readers will know for their “ear speakers”.

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New Phonostages From Bryston

Bryston has announced the introduction of four compact analogue solutions for vinyl enthusiasts—three phono stage preamplifiers and a matching outboard power supply. These new small form factor devices join the BUC-1 (a digital to digital converter outputting asynchronous USB) and the BOT-1 (CD ripper and player for the Bryston digital music players) also constructed in the […]

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Cabasse Announce Surf Loudspeaker

Cabasse is launching the compact Surf loudspeakers for use with its Stream AMP, creating a complete audio system. The 29cm high Surf is designed for a full and dynamic performance in rooms up to 25 m2 (270sq ft), with a soundstage that is said to be “incredibly stable and filled with realism”. When partnered with […]