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Jordan Acoustics Have a New Website

Jordan Acoustics has launched a brand new tailor-made website which they say brings visitors the very best in high-performance audio from around the world. The fully searchable site offers a host of new features along with a fresh, modern design that perfectly complements Jordan Acoustics’ two luxurious outlets, Bournemouth and Glenrothes _ it’s certainly easy […]

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Entotem At Whittlebury

Entotem got in touch to tell Hifi Pig readers what they will be up to at this year’s Whittlebury show with their Plato system which was first introduced earlier this year at the Sound and Vision Show in Bristol, winning the Clarity Alliance Innovation award. In May Entotem took the Plato system to the High […]

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A Couple Of New Products From Etalon In Hungary

StrEamer Mini server for gapless playback of music via internet streaming and/or radio with integrated high precision volume control. Being connected to a home network system can be totally remote controlled by mobile phone or tablet. Technical data: Inputs: RJ45 for Ethernet connection and USB for external storage as USB-stick or HDD Output: USB high […]

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Chord Electronics, The Chord Company and Leema Acoustics At Whittlebury

A trio of clients from the Dan George Communications portfolio will be exhibiting and showing flagship products at the National Audio Show 2015, this weekend! Chord Electronics Chord Electronics’ new flagship DAVE DAC/preamp will be playing at the show this weekend! Chord are supporting two retail partners at the NAS: Fanthorpes, one of the UK’s […]

Album Reviews

Leon Bridges – Coming Home (Columbia)

It seems that nearly all the new music I’ve been listening to lately has had a distinctly retro feel.  None more so than Coming Home by Leon Bridges. Twenty six year old Bridges from Fort Worth, Texas had been working as a dishwasher but due to chance meeting with Austin Jenkins from psych-rock band White […]

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Why Are There So Few Women Into Hifi?

While we are on the subject, if you guys really want us women to join in more on audiophile/hifi forums and groups, please, just put it away will you?  I remember being at school in the 70s and the boys would be frequently shrieked at, by irate teachers, for having competitions to see who could […]

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Tubular Bells For Two – Pleasance Courtyard, Edinburgh

“Iconic” is a much overused word but when it comes to Tubular Bells, its use is entirely justified.  From its cover art to its multi tracked instrumentation, the album embodies the early seventies just as Sergeant Pepper did for the late sixties  a few years earlier and Never Mind The Bollocks would do for the […]

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ISOL-8 Announces the MiniSub Chroma

The MiniSub Chroma is a single box solution for conditioning an entire AV system. It incorporates many of the technologiesfeatured in the SubStation range, with help from the VMC1080 video conditioner, at a much more affordable price. There are six outlets with a total combined continuous capacity of 10 Amps. One is for video displays […]

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Mains Cables – Part One

So then, the basic minimum criteria for a mains cable’s performance is that it must get the old juice from the wall socket to the input of my hi-fi component without spilling any of it on the carpet. Hifi Pig does not advocate anyone making ANY unauthorized or unsafe changes to their mains supply or […]

Album Reviews

Pixx – ‘Fall In EP’ (4AD Records)

A nice release, this, from the ever-reliable 4AD label.  Pixx is a new signing – and it’s immediately obvious why she’s piqued 4AD’s interest.  The music will please both 4AD purists and listeners new to the label.  Pixx is a pseudonym for 19 year old Hannah Rodgers from London.  I’ve been intrigued by comments which […]

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Max Richter – ‘SLEEP’ (Deutsche Grammophon)

Let’s start at the beginning – Max Richter is one of my favourite post-classical composers who you might say has literally been around the block.  He currently records on the German classical label Deutsche Grammophon, but many of his earlier releases were via the imprint ‘130701’, an offshoot of the indie label FatCat Records, one-time […]

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Gramafon Integrates With HTC

Gramofon makes it easy to stream music over the cloud to any audio system you own, from portables to hi-fi separates. Simply plug the little black box into your system via the supplied stereo RCA cable, connect it to your home Wi-Fi network and get streaming from any Wi-Fi-enabled device – smartphone, tablet, PC or […]

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New Preamplifier From McIntosh

The C1100 preamplifier from McIntosh has, say the company, “high level inputs having the lowest noise of any McIntosh preamplifier ever produced”. It utilises a two-chassis design where the control and power sections are completely separate from the audio section. The C1100 is comprised of the C1100 controller and the C1100 vacuum tube preamplifier. Inside […]

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GIK At Whittlebury

As part of the Clarity Alliance, GIK Acoustics-Europe will exhibit at The National Audio Show held at Whittlebury Hall in Northamptonshire from Saturday 19th to Sunday 20th September 2015. They will have several products on display including otheir new Evolution PolyFusor. Introduced in July, the GIK Acoustics is a curved panel that Evolution PolyFusor smoothly transitions from a low-frequency bass trap […]