The Clarity Alliance, the UK hi-fi industry’s trade association, will be presenting the third annual “Best of Show” Awards at the Bristol Show, to recognise the efforts of exhibitors putting on a high quality show. Sound & Vision is one of the premier shows of the UK calendar, featuring many of the major hi-fi and […]
The Chord Company, will be revealing two new models from its streaming (Ethernet) range at the forthcoming headroom show. The new streaming cables, which introduce The Chord Company’s Tuned ARAY technology to an even wider range of products, will be shown in pre- production form to the public at The headroom Show ahead of their […]
The EVO3 Venus AV power centre is a five-outlet mains conditioner designed to enhance and protect a complete audio or AV system. “A painstakingly designed delta filter topology filters out common mode and differential mode noise, with a reduction in RFI of 30dB”. Each of the five outlets is independently isolated to prevent cross-contamination. In […]
Our friends at Audio4soul got in touch to tell us about their latest project and the Worldwide distribution of its OCC iT! Reference speaker cables. “Employing the finest single crystal pure OCC copper made by the -now- famous Ohno casting method, the OCC cables digs deeper into the music truth of your collection. Clarity, 3D imaging, natural presence,dynamics, musicality, […]
In Modern Blues, the 11th studio album by The Waterboys, Mike Scott sums up his career to date in a single phrase: “I’m not bitter and I’m no quitter”. Right from their 1983 eponymous debut album, Scott has used The Waterboys as a vehicle to explore his own particular vision – The Big Music. By […]
The Philips Fidelio NC1s “have been designed to bring the enjoyment back to executive travel” says th’e company’s latest press release. The initial design of the NC1 started with a modified version of the internal architecture of the Fidelio M1BT headphone. The press release coninues “Extensive research was made into the ideal combination of memory […]
When deciding which albums to place in my top ten of last year (2014) there were a number that deserved a place without any doubt nor discussion. Mark Kozelek, under the pseudonym Sun Kil Moon, released one of the most emotionally demanding and yet fulfilling albums of the year. On this album Benji, Mark’s 6th […]
My favourite album of 2012 was ‘The Seer’ by Michael Gira’s band Swans. To say that I was anticipating the release of ‘To Be Kind’ last year would be a profound understatement. For over 30 years Michael Gira has been producing some of the most experimental and interesting rock music that can be had. His […]
Occasionally, when asked to review a reissue of an album, one discovers a band that failed, for one reason on another, to show up on the radar the first time around. Some of these discoveries are similar to opening a treasure chest that has been gathering dust in a dark corner only to reveal a […]
There are those who regard the Lowell George era Little Feat as one of the greatest American bands of the 1970s. Their musical chops and deep soulful funkiness meant that they were as much a live phenomenon as they were a 5 star recording unit. Some would say that it all came together in the […]
Few bands bifurcate opinion as vociferously as Belle and Sebastian. Many people simply can’t see past the image of them fostered in their early publicity shots and sleeve notes: Duffel coat donning, butterfly net wielding perma-students gathered in a gang like some Vimto version of Dexys Midnight Runners. Building that band brand was a calculated […]
Janine Elliot recently reviewed the Russ Andrews’ entry level Balanced Mains Unit which you can read all about here. Now Russ Andrews Accessories has introduced the New BMU3000 Balanced Mains Unit to provide 3kVA of power to hi-fi and home cinema systems. Working on the same principle as balanced audio signals, where the audio signal […]
TIDAL today announced the launch and availability of its service in five new European countries, namely Ireland, Finland, the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg. “All these markets, as the rest of the world, are seeing a strong increase in music streaming subscription, as well as a high interest for high quality audio,” said TIDAL CEO Andy Chen. ”With […]
The board of Mitchell and Johnson, British audio manufacturing brand, has announced that Haydn Abbott has been appointed to the position of non-executive chairman of the company, with immediate effect. Abbott is the former managing director of Sony UK, with responsibility for all product sectors within consumer and non-consumer electronics, and vice president of Sony […]
After a brief hiatus at the end of 2014 allowing us to put the Yearbook together, Hifi PIg’s hifi reviews are coming thick and fast. So far this year we have had Simply Audio Cadenza Interconnect, Speaker Cable and Jumper Links, Diesis Aura Loudspeakers , Russ Andrews Balanced Mains Unit 1000, Vinyl Passion Dustbuster and today saw the publication of the […]