This is another staple event that is always interesting to attend and judging by the ‘rammedness’ of the room every other journo in the world is in agreement. There wasn’t a seat in the house, other than right at the front oddly and so this is where we sat. As usual Gérard Chrétien gave us […]
The dates for next year’s High end event in Munich has just been announced as the 5th to 8th May 2016. All being well and barring a major disaster, Hifi Pig will be there in force for Munich High End 2016 at the MOC. See you there!
One of the great things about High End Munich is the fact that is a meeting place and hub for the whole Hifi world. People that you know from facebook suddenly appear in the flesh and before you know it that ‘meet in the beer garden at 12’ has become a gathering worthy of the […]
“Why did the Hifi Journalists cross the road?” After a really long Friday at High End Munich 2015, a weary gaggle of the world’s Hifi press gather across the road from the MOC to be whizzed en masse to Starnberg, a small town to the south of Munich, and the stunning My Sound Hifi showroom. […]
Janine Elliot reviewed the Flare Audio R2Pro and R2A earphones and thought very highly of them, saying that « As a sound engineer and musician, and as a listener, it hit all the right boxes for me, whether at £200 or £400 » and awarding them 8.97/10 and 8.77 respectively. They were then sent to Linette Smith […]
There is a problem with High End Munich…it is so big, where on earth do you start? We now consider ourselves veterans of the show, this being our third year and we have learned (the hard way) to get to the show with a carefully organised plan of attack…which will probably go to pot pretty […]
So, you’re in a meeting where you are discussing the name of an all singing, all dancing new product that you plan to announce to the world’s press… at the world’s most prestigious audio event (High End Munich) and someone pipes up “Hey, I know what…let’s call it DAVE”. Now it’s a very brave person […]
Hifi Pig’s coverage of High End Munich 2105 starts today in earnest. Over the next few days we’ll have loads of pictures of High End as well as what we thought of this year’s Munich show. You really don’t want to miss this. Here’s today’s selection from the show. High End Munich 2015 – The […]
2015 : The year High End Munich turned Pink ! So, Stuart has filled you in on our adventures on the way to Munich. We found ourselves at our hotel on Schillerstrasse, just a few minutes walk from the main train station. At first glance this area is what might be described as ‘a bit dodgy’ ……there […]
It’s always an early one the Devialet press conference on the first day of High End Munich, but it’s always worth dragging your weary arse out of your comfy bed and making the effort to attend and this year was no exception. Now, we live in la Belle France and so we know that the […]
There’s always a certain excitement in the run up to Munich High End and this year was no different in that respect. For weeks (months actually) Mrs Hifi Pig (Lin) has had the train and plane tickets booked and has managed to wind herself into a fever of anticipation. We did the journey a little […]
Successor to the BBC’s old LS5/8 monitor loudspeaker, Harbeth’s new incarnation launched at the Munich High End has improvements on all fronts over the 1970s’ two-way and said to be a significant upgrade to the Monitor 40.1 model. “The three-way Monitor 40 solved the inadequacies of that old BBC model, which attempted to force a […]
DigiBit is introducing today at Hi-End Munich two new products: wamp a wireless streamer and power amplifier and aria mc, a media centre. wamp wamp is a computer audio device, and the first to market to combine such technologies as a wireless power amplifier and wireless media streamer. wamp seamlessly converts your preferred passive loudspeakers […]
During High End 2015, Joseph Audio will show for the first time in Europe the new Joseph Prism loudspeakers. According to Jeff Joseph, the company’s President and Design Engineer, “The Prism is a compact monitor that thinks it’s a big speaker!” The new Prism borrows several technologies from its famous “big brother” – The Pulsar. […]
Launching at the High End Show in Munich (14th – 17th May), the brand new R-Series 2000 from T+A, sees significant updates and new thinking behind one of the company’s most respected product lines. Designed from the ground up and utilising much of the technology developed for the company’s HV Series, the new R-Series promises exceptional sound quality […]