The North West Audio Show 2015 Photographs
Hifi Pig are the official media partners for The North West Audio Show that took place last weekend in the glorious surroundings of Cranage Hall in the North West, UK. This was a really fabulous day out with great exhibitors and loads of very enthusiastic visitors. Hifi Pig will be publishing a special PDF magazine next […]
Graham Slee Owners Club and Loaner Program
UK based manufacturer Graham Slee is a name well known in audio circles and Graham has recently been in touch with Hifi Pig to tell us about an interesting concept the company has hatched, to help their current customers and attract new ones. Whilst this isn’t news per se; it is certainly new to us and we thought […]
3Beez Announces The Wax Box 3 Music Management System
The Wax Box is a system for storing, cataloguing and playing music. The new Wax Box 3 has the same user interface as its predecessors but in a much more compact case. It features 1TB of storage and 3Beez say that it is ‘Simple enough for technophobes, configurable enough for audiophiles’. The Wax Box 3 […]
Bowers & Wilkins P5 Wireless Headphones
P5 Wireless are Bowers & Wilkins first Bluetooth® headphones. Constructed from leather and aluminium they are simple to connect to a compatible device such as your smartphone, tablet or computer. They feature intuitive controls that allow users to not only play/pause and skip music, but also answer calls. The rechargeable battery lasts 17 hours before a […]
New Appointments At Monitor Audio
Monitor Audio has appointed new brand leaders and recruited fresh talent to complete their team. The new sales and marketing team will support the introduction of the latest Gold and Bronze series models worldwide and prepare for new product announcements expected next year. The promotions and recruitments include: Director of Global Sales and Marketing: Alex […]
Noble Audio 43 Hour Sale
Noble Audio is celebrating the 43rd birthday of its co-founder, audiologist John Moulton, aka ‘The Wizard’, with a sale. Starting on 01st July at 12.00 midnight PST (08.00am GMT), the Wizard Birthday Celebration offers a 15% discount against all Noble Audio universal and Prestige products, for a 43-hour period only. The special limited-period promotion includes […]
Judith Owen – Ebb & Flow (Twanky Records)
Judith Owen describes her latest album, her 10th studio release, as “a love letter to Laurel Canyon”. In the late 1960s and early ‘70s, Laurel Canyon in Los Angeles was home to several members of the Californian rock music community. Joni Mitchell lived there and David Crosby, Stephen Stills and Graham Nash first met in […]
BirdPen – In The Company Of Imaginary Friends (Jar Records/Fintage House)
Dave Pen and Mike Bird formed BirdPen while sharing a flat in their hometown of Southampton. Self-releasing a handful of well-received EPs, the duo went on to release their debut Album On/Off/Safety/Danger in 2009. Evolving and honing their sound, new album In The Company Of Imaginary Friends, their third, harnesses subtle melodies to evoke widescreen […]
Pro-Ject Essential II DIGITAL Turntable
Pro-Ject are set to take their own traditional design, and completely revolutionise it to accommodate the ever-growing number of vinyl listeners. The Essential II DIGITAL aims to be the first hi-fi specified turntable that can be connected – out-of- the-box – to any modern home entertainment system. The brand new internal phono stage gives customers […]
Superhand – American Teeth (Malt Barn Recordings)
Duo Inga Calstrom and Leck Fischer were discovered by producer Mike Mason in a club in the small Swedish town of Sveg. Unimpressed by the entertainment on offer, Mason was on his way out. “A monstrous bass line rabbit punched me in the back of the head and a voice made me weak at the […]
Noble Audio’s £69 Bluetooth Solution.
Rather than bringing out a single pair of Bluetooth in ear monitors, Noble Audio the California based IEM specialists have come up with a clever little gizmo called a Bluetooth Solution (BTS). It’s a tiny clip-on device that turns headphones and IEMs wireless using Bluetooth. Barely bigger than an AA battery and weighing just 10 grams, […]
Akiko Audio Introduces The Aerostar FI 50 Power Cable
Akiko Audio think that the importance of a good power supply cannot be stressed enough. “That’s why we took another critical look at, and where possible improved, the top range of our power cables: the Aerostar.” Says Marc van Berlo, co-owner of this Dutch company. The quality of the silver plating has been improved, together with […]
Voxtok Announces AudioCapsule, CES 2015 Award-winning, Multi-room Audio System
Voxtok, a Frano-American company with their R&D team based in the South of France, announces the launch of AudioCapsule, an audiophile-grade player and a music server, controlled from your smartphone, tablet or Smart TV. Combining a premium quality player, a multi-room music service, and a CD-ripping feature, AudioCapsule also comes with a high-capacity internal storage, and […]