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Furutech Launch New SK-III Electrostatic Brush

Japanese cable and accessories company Furutech launch the new SK-III electrostatic brush, designed to remove unwanted static charge from a range of audio-visual media, enhancing sound and picture quality. Originally developed by SFC of Japan, the patented SK-III electrostatic brush is a new and improved version of the earlier SK-II and has already proved to […]

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String Suspension Concept (SSC) Record Point420

The guys at NuNu Distribution got in touch to tell us about the SSC Record Point 420 which is the new addition to the SSC range and can be used with most record players and aims to provide a good contact between the record and the platter and stabilise the record which the company say […]

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Linn Exakt Demo In Paris

As we were in Paris last weekend visiting the Haute Fidélité show, Linn invited us along to Audio Synthèse, a high-end retailer in the city, to take a listen to the new Linn Exakt system. How could we refuse! I’m sure most folk will be well aware of the Linn brand and I for one […]

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Linn Exakt Demo

As we were in Paris last weekend visiting the Haute Fidélité show, Linn invited us along to Audio Synthèse, a high-end retailer in the city, to take a listen to the new Linn Exakt system. How could we refuse!

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UK Launch Of Audio Research G Series Amplifiers

Audio Research marks the UK launch of its new G Series components with an exclusive event at KJ West One, the high-end audio retailer based in Central London. Named in homage to Galileo, the G Series consists of three amplifiers: the GSPre preamplifier, GS150 power amplifier and, arriving a little further down the line, the GSi75 […]

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Noble Announce K10 IEMS at £999

Noble Audio has launched a universal-fit version of its flagship 10-driver in-ear monitor (IEM). The new K10 (£999) follows the success of the range-topping custom-fit model and is now available as a handcrafted IEM in Noble’s signature universal form factor. The K10 (Kaiser 10) is a ten-armature IEM and is a low- impedance four-way design […]

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Aulalic Announces TIDAL Integration

Auralic North America Inc. and its parent company, Auralic Limited, have announced that TIDAL, the first lossless music streaming service with HD music videos and curated editorial, has been integrated in their ARIES Streamer Bridge. AURALiC’s Lightning streaming is the industry’s first whole-house, high-resolution streaming solution that supports music playback up to Double-Rate DSD and DXD formats. The ARIES, the first […]

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Salon Haute Fidélité Paris 2014

The Haute Fidélité show in Paris is a must attend for us here at Hifi Pig. It’s a nice little show that is friendly, well attended and only four hours from us by rail. This year’s show was a good event too with there being plenty of punters through the door and a good and […]

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Mark Levinson’s No 585 Integrated Amplifier

The No 585 is engineered to be the finest integrated amplifier ever created by Mark Levinson and is the first of a new generation of products to be designed at HARMAN’s new state-of-the-art engineering facility located in Shelton, Connecticut. It combines versatility with a Class AB amplifier delivering 200 watts per channel into 8 ohms […]

Album Reviews

Bryan Adams – Tracks of My Years (Deluxe Edition)

14 covers (10 on the normal version) and two original tunes, one penned in partnership with Jim Vallance and the other with Gretchen Peters ( this only on the Deluxe Edition) on this, the twelfth studio album from Canadian rocker Bryan Adams has tracks from writers such as Lennon and McCartney (Any Time At All), […]

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Crystal Acoustics Teevy 6

Crystal Acoustics has announced the launch of the Teevy 6, part of the new Reference Wireless Series of speakers from Crystal Acoustics, and utilises the new WiSound technology to create what the company’s press release describes as “an incredibly dispersive, dynamic and consistent audio delivery throughout every part of the room”. The ‘WiSound’ design uses […]

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Caroll Vanwelden – Shakespeare Sonnets 2

Caroll Vanwelden is a Belgian singer and a graduate of the London Guildhall School of Music and Drama, but only after having passed her engineering degree in Brussels. Shakespeare Sonnets 2 is, needless to say, the second album of Vanweldens where she puts the bard’s sonnets to music. It’s out now on Jazznarts and my […]