Wikipedia has this to say about the genre that is Shoegaze “Shoegaze is a subgenre of alternative rock that emerged from the United Kingdom in the late 1980s and reached peak popularity in the early 1990s. The style is typified by significant use of distortion, feedback, obscured vocals and the blurring of component musical parts into indistinguishable “walls of sound”.
Last Weeks news from our partners over at GadgetyNews Usain Bolt inspired Gibson Trainer Wireless Sports Headphones Review Mushkin Unleashes Affordable 4TB SSD At CES 2016 Polaroid Snap Is A Cute, Photograph Printing Compact Cam Panasonic Transparent Gesture Controlled TV at CES 2016 Zeiss range of iPhone Photo Lenses at CES 2016 Over half of […]
Audiolab launches the premium version of the M-DAC this month. The new M-DAC+ will sell alongside the classic M-DAC, sporting a number of enhancements both inside and out in return for an additional £200. Like the M-DAC, the new M-DAC+ is a high-performance, multipurpose audio DAC (Digital-to-Analogue Converter) for home use, designed to sit on […]
As audiophiles and music lovers around the world continue to debate whether hi-res digital actually makes an appreciable difference, one thing remains clear: the analogue resurgence is going from strength to strength. Vinyl sales are now growing faster than any other format and turntable sales shot through the roof in 2015. Austria-based Horch House say […]
Previewed at last year’s Bristol Show and officially launched at The National Audio Show and Hi-Fi Show Live 2015, the long-awaited new Titan 808 flagship loudspeaker from Kudos Audio is now shipping to audiophiles worldwide. The Titan 808 has deliberately taken its time to come to market. Not only because of the considerable investment in […]
Samsung Galaxy stylus smarts could become a standard option right across the board, according to a newly-published Samsung patent. The new patent filed by Samsung suggests that the South Korean company plans to eventually make all of its Galaxy-branded smartphones stylus-friendly. Get the whole story over at GadgetyNews
Apple Watch 2 was reportedly going to be unveiled at an event penciled in for March 2016, but the latest news is that this might be delayed. Apple was apparently all set for launching their Watch 2, as well as a cheaper iPhone but reports are appearing stating that Apple may have pushed back the […]
Janine Elliot continues her series of articles for Hifi Pig highlighting classic hifi from yesteryear. This month, given that Sennheiser have recently announced a new $55 000 Orpheus, she turns her attention to the original Sennheiser Orpheus, first released in 1991.
Parasound has expanded its ZoneMaster custom installation amplifier line with the introduction of three new models. The six-channel Parasound ZoneMaster 650, four- channel ZoneMaster 450, and two-channel ZoneMaster 250 use the same 50-watt bridgeable amplifier circuits, offer the same quality sound, and deliver the same high levels of dependability as the company’s ZoneMaster1250 Universal 12-channel […]
I have taken the opportunity to test a couple of items, so here’s my Vodafone Findxone tracker review to start with. The Findxone tracker is not flashy, but rather sturdy and functional. Saying that though, the Findxone only costs £15 and then £24 per year. Get the whole review at GadgetyNews.
The Chord Company When we were initially discussing this review by Dave Robson with The Chord Company we wanted to see what the company’s ‘loom’ would bring to the table ‘off the shelf’ and “untailored” to the specific system being used. Chord offer a service they call The Cable Doctor in which they tailor a […]
British audio company Mitchell and Johnson has launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise £20,000 to help with the launch of its new headphone range featuring Electrostatz technology. The finance raised via its Kickstarter initiative will be directed specifically at marketing and promoting the new range of headphones, which will be one of the first to […]
New Hifi Pig contributor Daniel Brown takes a look at some of the albums and EPs that he has discovered during the last year. Much of the stuff is very different to the usual audiophile fodder and there is some great stuff in here, so read on and you may well discover something new yourself!
John Scott was entranced by the sleek, stylish beauty of Naim’s £850 all-in-one speaker system but will she sound as good as she looks? “George Bernard Shaw said: “Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?” George clearly wasn’t a Hifi […]
Korean company Nasotec Corporation recently got in touch with Hifi Pig to introduce us to their Swing Headshell that looks pretty interesting for all you vinylistas. This ‘Swing Headshell’ has a very soft and flexible joint designed to make your cartridge always align with the tangent of the groove circle. The joint precisely machined joint has small […]
Kitvision has just introduced two new sets of smartphone camera lenses. The new 2 in 1 and 4 in 1 lens sets allow you to raise your photography game, as you can now take spectacular photographs directly from your smartphone. Read the full story on GadgetyNews