One album, two men, too many instruments! Two crazy barefoot Aussies wield over 20 instruments to faithfully recreate Mike Oldfield’s epic 1973 masterpiece. Following sell-out seasons around the world and a Best Music Award-winning appearance at the 2015 Adelaide Fringe Festival, Tubular Bells for Two returns to tour the UK fresh from its third […]
September 2015 sees Andrew Combs returning to the UK, supported by his label-mate Barna Howard. Following on from an appearance at End Of The Road Festival on Friday 4th September, Andrew and his band will tour the UK promoting their 2015 album All These Dreams. The album marked a huge step forward for the Nashville-based singer-songwriter. Using his gifts for lyricism and wry observation, Combs weaves tales of […]
Following the massive success of his mind-bending gig at the Barbican in March, which sold out two months in advance, Squarepusher will be keeping the pressure on by performing his biggest gig to date at the Troxy in East London on the 24th of October. The gig will feature two sets from Squarepusher, including his revolutionary […]
The latest of Hifi Pig Extra is out and ready for you to download. It’s a fab issue with loads of reviews, loads of music reviews, live music, great columnists, a great Readers’ Lives article that follows a father and son through their audiophile journey, Forever Changes by Love is the Classic Album and there’s a […]
Audiolab has announced the hotly anticipated successor to the 8200CD, the 8300CD, which is the first model of their all new 8300 Series. The outgoing 8200 Series contained two CD players: the 8200CD and 8200CDQ, the latter sporting additional preamp facilities. The 8300CD replaces both players, adding full digital preamp functionality (among other things) to the 8200CD’s […]
Onkyo have lanched the new 2 x 135 watts per channel TX-8150 and 2 x 110 watts per channel TX-8130 Hi-Res network stereo receivers. Both receivers are built around Onkyo’s, fully discrete high-instantaneous-current amplification system that controls the speaker drivers with exceptional accuracy while capturing a very wide audio frequency spectrum for dynamic, energetic, and realistic sound. Backed by a high-output massive transformer and […]
Romanian company, Meze, will begin shipping their new headphones, the 99Classics, in November 2015. Their Indiegogo campaign, which is still running, has already achieved their funding target. The headphones, available in Silver or Gold finishes, are designed to be both comfortable and elegant and to deliver excellent sound quality. The construction uses high quality materials […]
Yes vocalist John Anderson and renowned jazz fusion violinist Jean Luc Ponty first talked about recording together over 30 years ago. Now those discussions have become reality on the duo’s new CD Better Late Than Never. Accompanied by a band of superb musicians whose credits include work with Ponty, Stanley Clarke, Chick Corea, George Duke, […]
Lampizator have announced a new DSD Only DAC called Eufonia. It will cost 1800 Euros plus taxes. The company’s website claims that this signals the death of CD and there will be no more AES/EBU inputs and no more Toslink. The DAC will play normal normal red book CDs as DSD via the computer which […]
Following on from the recent news of their appointment of distribution for their new NADAC (Network Attached DAC) in the USA earlier this week, Merging Technologies of Switzerland have announced their European and Australasian distributors. Digital Audio Service are handling Germany and Austria, eMerging the UK, Merging Denmark takes Scandinavia, the Benelux region is taken […]
Clarity, the hifi industry trade association, in conjunction with Queen and Universal Music is very pleased to announce the first UK public playback of “Queen: The Studio Collection” box set at the UK’s National Audio Show on 19 and 20 September 2015 – a week before the box set is released. This fantastic opportunity for […]
The Elixir, from Budapest based Heed Audio is a compact five-input integrated amplifier with built-in phono stage and dedicated headphone amplifier, that is designed to provide the renowned Heed sound quality in a one box solution at a lower price point than the existing Heed products. A Class A headphone amplifier and enhanced MM phono […]
German company Raumfeld have announced their Soundbar which comes complete with its own Subwoofer. Easy to integrate with any existing Raumfeld multi-room devices, the Soundbar boasts Integrated class D amplifier firing 6 x 70 mm midrange drivers with 180 watts and the Subwoofer a 200 watt class D amplifier with 3 x 130 mm long-throw […]
The Chord Company, has launched Clearway — a high-performance, low-cost speaker cable that replaces Carnival SilverScreen and introduces a raft of advanced features. During the development of Clearway, valuable research was carried out in relation to the behaviour of conductors and different dielectrics (insulation). For a long time, Chord has understood the importance of the relationship between conductor […]
California’s Noble Audio will be showing its full range and offering free impression-taking for its custom products at CanJam London 2015 this weekend. Noble Audio will be presenting demonstration models of the Noble 3, Noble 4, Noble 5, Noble 6, the ten-driver Kaiser 10U and the new Savant IEMs. Noble Audio’s UK agent, Gisele Flower, […]
The guys at Native DSD have just got in touch to tell us about their new compilation album called 8 Ensembles in 1 Bit(2015). It has tunes by Breno Virícimo Group, Thomas & Eva, The Pipays, Kobra Ensemble, Merel Vercammen & Ketevan Roinishvili, De Gebroeders Harteveld & Fretz, New Amsterdam Voices and Odd Pearls and […]