TIDAL, the first high fidelity lossless music streaming service with HD music videos and curated editorial, has announced the launch and availability of its service in the UK and US. The service has an extensive library of 25 million-plus tracks, 75,000 music videos and curated editorial articles, features and interviews. It’s ad’ free and available […]
The SteamAmp II from Coppersteam.com is the second iteration in the SteamAmp line and we think it looked great and certainly worthy of a mention in Hifi Pig’s news section. Its circuit follows the original, and is based upon the S5 Electronics K12G Kit. The power supply caps and signal coupling caps have been upgraded, […]
Quad celebrates 78 years in business this year and with the launch of Vena: a compact integrated amplifier sporting a wide range of digital and analogue inputs, plus wireless streaming over Bluetooth with aptX support. Just 313mm wide, the diminutive Vena updates the familiar Quad aesthetic, yet remains distinctly ‘Quad’. A row of source-selection buttons […]
Anthem AVS will be launching the new range of Paradigm Prestige loudspeakers to the UK and Republic of Ireland at this year’s Hi-Fi News show on November the 1st and 2nd. “The Paradigm Prestige is adorned with smart engineering and new technologies such as the proprietary Perforated Phase-Aligning (PPA™) Tweeter Lens which protects the delicate […]
McIntosh Laboratory has launched a new control app for its recently launched media streamer the MB100 Media Bridge. The McIntosh Media Bridge app allows users to fully control and operate the new MB100 Media Bridge streamer, launched in the UK in late September. The MB100 Media Bridge music streamer combinines huge internal storage with a […]
T+A, Germany’s largest specialist audio manufacturer, has announced that it has appointed Dynaudio UK as its new UK distributor. Starting with immediate effect, Dynaudio UK will be responsible for all sales and support activities across the UK specialist audio retailer network. The company says that a change in distribution signals a new period of focus […]
KEF has joined forces with Warner Bros. to promote the cinema release of the highly anticipated Interstellar, the new movie by Christopher Nolan releasing in cinemas and Imax nationwide on 7th November. From the end of October, KEF retailers will host Interstellar promotional material alongside KEF’s E series speaker range in-store. The E Series takes […]
The Clarity Alliance announces that hi-fi electronics retailer, Fanthorpes Hifi, has joined its growing number of UK members, expanding the number of retailers supporting the work of the Alliance. Fanthorpes in Hull has been trading in Hepworth’s Arcade since 1946 and took the decision to join Clarity Alliance after meeting members of the Alliance at […]
German company Clearaudio have announced the Absolute Phono and Absolute Phono Inside, a novel new phonostage solution. With current phonostages the output signal generated within the cartridge has to travel down the tonearm wiring and along the external arm lead before it reaches the phonostage, at which point it is amplified and then equalized before […]
The Pop Ambient series of albums from Uber label Kompakt has been delivering the chilled goods since 2001 and never fails to deliver. As the title suggests the style of music herein is accessible ambience and it works very well indeed. Label boss Wolfgang Voigt is the guy that puts the collection together and he does […]
Robson Acoustics’ Opulus Prima Loudspeakers have achieved the coveted Hifi Pig Outstanding Product Award after two independent reviews gave the loudspeakers overall scores of over 8.5. Stuart Smith said that the little British made loudspeakers “ are a good value for money, great sounding loudspeaker, which will suit listeners looking for a fast and detailed […]
The Atlantic from Tron is one of the smallest 300B amps ever made with a footprint of just 40cm x 25cm. Power is between 9-10watts across the audio spectrum (20-20kHz) and with a usable bandwidth up to to 95kHz (-3dB). The chassis is made from CNC machined Aircraft grade alloy, designed so that no nuts, […]
TEAC has introduced its HA-50 portable headphone amplifier which also sports an integrated USB DAC. The new headphone amplifier is designed to operate with laptops as well as Apple iOS devices and will support 24-bit/96kHz using the unit’s BurrBrown PCM5102 DAC chip. The TEAC HA-P50 uses OPA 1652 op amps and achieves a distortion rate […]
HighResAudio got in touch with Hifi Pig to let us know that they have expanded their licensing territory to include: Czech Republic, Hungary, Italy, Lichtenstein, Luxembourg, Monaco, Poland, Slovakia. This means that the whole Warner Music HighRes repertoire is now available to the above countries. The company’s spokesperson also announced that Sony Music will follow […]