It would be a shame to visit such a beautiful and culturally rich city as Munich and not actually see anything of it…..I must admit that we have been so busy in previous years that we haven’t made it to any of the Museums and Art galleries, but this year I am determined to! Of […]
Swiss manufacturer Merging Technologies will launch their audiophile D/A converter, NADAC, at the High End Show in Munich on May 14. They will be in Hall 3 on stand J05/K08. NADAC stands for Network Attached DAC, and will be delivered in two different versions, stereo and 8-channels. Both variants have ¼” and mini-jack headphone outputs […]
McIntosh Laboratory has reissued two classic amplifiers that retain the aesthetics of their era, while sporting modernised internals for contemporary system integration. The C22 First issued in the 1960s, the reintroduced C22 preamp maintains the retro McIntosh design but has been modernised to deliver performance equal to any other McIntosh pre. The 2015 C22 features […]
“The Hybrid Valve Headphone Amplifier gives us back the warm rich quality sound that was lost when valves when transistors took over from valves. Plug it in between your phone or MP3 player and your headphones. Your music now passes though real glass tubes valves resulting in vastly improved sound quality. It will also boost […]
Swiss brand Soulutions got in touch with Hifi PIg to tell us they are excited to be introducing three new products at this year’s High End Show in Munich. The new products to be showcased are: 760 D/A-converter 755 phono preamplifier 746 power supply for the 746 SACD player. Soulutions will be in Atrium 4, E107 at […]
Harman Luxury Audio will be unveiling No. 536 monaural amplifier from Mark Levinson on Thursday May 14 at MOC Munich, Atrium 4, First Floor, Room F119. Todd Eichenbaum, Harman’s Head of Luxury Audio Engineering will be introducing the new design and performance of this fully discrete 400W class AB power amplifier which Harman say is […]
German high-end brand Audionet “restarts with full steam” at High End Munich 2105 says the company’s press release just in. They will be in Showroom E101 where they say they will be showcasing: new and better products (hard- and software) new distribution concept new marketing new team new power Kit likely to be on dem will include […]
Panamanian (now resident in Minneapolis,, USA) José James attended The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music. In 2008, he debuted with his first album, The Dreamer, on the Brownswood label with Blackmagic following in 2010. 2010’s For All We Know came out on the Impulse! label and became the winner of both the Edison Award[ and L’Académie du Jazz Grand […]
Following its world launch at International CES 2015 in January, Chord Electronics’ latest proprietary DAC, the 2Qute, is now shipping globally. Now in full production at Chord’s riverside headquarters in Kent, the hand-made 2Qute is arriving in dealerships around the world. The new 2Qute, which replaces the Qute EX, takes Chord’s proprietary FPGA DAC technology […]
Whilst visiting Munich for this year’s High End event you may find that you can drag yourself away from all the great audio, hifi and events that The High-End Society have laid on and so Hifi Pig thought we would put together a list of attractions in Munich that you may like to consider visiting. […]
Pangea Audio has announced the introduction of the HP201 Hybrid Tube Headphone Amp with 24/192 USB DAC. The HP201 is now available with an MSRP of $299.99. The Pangea Audio HP201 combines Class A solid state circuitry featuring MOSFET output devices with a vacuum tube. The Pangea engineering team, led by engineer/designer Jay Victor, selected MOSFETS […]
Our friends at Blumenhofer Acoustics got in touch to let us know that they will be attending this years High End Munich where they will be in room F224. for this year’s High End show they will use as a sourse the Air Force One Turntable from TechDas, developed by Mr. Hideaki Nishikawa, the former […]
Thore Pfeiffer is a young German producer who first came up on my radar on Kompakt’s excellent Pop Ambient album we reviewed back in October of last year. This is the second artist album to come from the Pop Ambient compilation series that is so carefully curated by label head honcho Wolfgang Voigt.
Tejada is a 41 year old producer and Dj based in LA who joined the Kompakt imprint in 2011 with Signs Under Test following his previous album The Predicting Machine and a load of 12 inchers. This is very much in the bleep and beats techno category with Tejada working the machines at his disposal […]
Astell&Kern has launched its most affordable high-resolution portable player yet – the AK Jr. Despite costing £399, the new AK Jr shares many features with its big brothers. Its aluminium case, machined controls and performance immediately set it above sub-£500 rivals says the company’s recent press release. 24bit/192hKz high-resolution audio playback Widest range of music […]