Meridian has announced that two new edition DSP loudspeakers are now ready to order. The £6,000.00 DSP5200.2 and £17,000.00 DSP7200.2 loudspeakers take Meridian’s proprietary Digital Signal Processing (DSP) technology to a new high, with a series of new and improved technological innovations that deliver superior performance in many areas, says the company’s latest press release. […]
In 1973, the Audio Research SP3 was hailed as ‘the best preamplifier available’. The Reference Series from Audio Research was first introduced in 1995 and say Audio Research, ‘Has been the ultimate representation of performance, musicality and power.’ The Reference 6 is the latest preamplifier from the brand. The Reference 6 is a solution to […]
Is it really almost eighteen months since we last attended one of the Association Jazz Edge events? Let me put you in the picture dear reader.
Tellurium Q, the UK based cable manufacturer got in touch with Hifi Pig to tell us all about their latest Ultra Silver Power cables. In their press release they say that the new power cables have “Even cleaner, more focused and more agile sound than the multi award wining Black power cable, with more precise […]
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.
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 […]
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, […]
I wasn’t exactly sure what to make of this CD when it landed on my doormat. The band’s name together with the cover art – kind of a cross between The Beatles’ Yellow Submarine and Pink Floyd’s Relics – made me wonder if this was some sort of arch parody in the manner of XTC’s […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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.
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.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]