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New Alida Wallmount From Wilson

The new wallmount speaker from Wilson, the Alida, incorporates the same anti-jitter crossover technology that underlies the full-size Wilson loudspeakers. “The greatest challenge for any wall-mount loudspeaker is accounting for the deleterious interaction with the wall and ceiling, as well as degradation caused by the mount itself. Alida minimizes wall/ceiling resonant interactions through thoroughly re-engineered […]

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Natty Case For Chord Electronics’ Hugo

Chord Electronics’ Hugo has quickly established itself in the marketplace and now Hugo owners can protect their device and house a digital audio player or cell phone, in the new Hugo Leather Case (£99). The Hugo Leather Case is, as its name would suggest, made from leather and has been designed to allow full access […]

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Classé Launches Sigma Series

Classé has announced the availability of a new series of components called Sigma, featuring a 7.1 channel Surround Sound Preamp/Processor, called Sigma SSP and two amplifiers, the AMP2 and AMP5, rated at 2x200W and 5x200W into 8 ohms respectively. “High-end is about passion, discovery, experience and technical exploration. It’s not just who can make the […]

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New Colours For Naim mu-so

Naim have announced that its new wireless music system, mu-so will feature Spotify connectivity so that as well as the long list of music streaming features it sports Spotify premium subscribers the ability to stream to the mu-so via the Spotify app on a mobile device. To preserve battery life of the mobile device mu-so […]

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Magneplanar MG 3.7i Available in UK

Hifi Pig readers will know Magneplanar speakers for being slender flat-panel designs which, unlike most standard cabinet speakers, don’t rely on conventional cone and dome drivers. Instead, their sound-producing elements are proprietary thin film drivers: in this case, ‘true’ and ‘quasi’ ribbons. The new MG 3.7i replaces the MG 3.7 and MG 3.6 and is […]

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Flexson Launch VinylPlay Turntable

Flexson, specialist in accessories for SONOS, has launched VinylPlay – a turntable for the digital music age. With vinyl sales growing as fast as music streaming, VinylPlay gives music fans a best-of-both-worlds solution: a record player that’s easy to use and can be simply integrated into a modern streaming system. Key features of VinylPlay – […]

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KEF R50 Dolby Atmos Loudspeaker Announced

KEF has announced the expansion of its R Series speaker range with the R50 Dolby Atmos enabled speaker module, which has been specifically designed to deliver multi-dimensional sound with Dolby Atmos. The R50 incorporates KEF’s full-range Uni-Q® driver array, featuring a 25mm (1-in.) aluminium vented-tweeter and ‘tangerine waveguide’, positioned at the acoustic centre of a […]

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New Bryston Media Player

Bryston has announced the introduction of the BDP-1USB digital music player. The BDP-1USB is Bryston’s most affordable high-performance music player designed for those customers using one of many popular USB external DAC’s (Digital to Analog Converters) available on the market. The BDP-1USB can manage large music libraries of up to 30,000 tracks—from MP3 to high […]

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TIDAL Hits UK and US

WiMP HiFi, the award-winning Scandinavian music streaming service, today announced it will introduce TIDAL to the UK and the U.S. later this autumn. Unlike any other service currently on the market, TIDAL will offer high fidelity sound quality, high definition music videos and curated editorial by experienced music journalists. Music will be available in FLAC […]

Headphones Hifi Reviews

Focal Spirit One S Headphones

French manufacturer Focal aren’t the fist name that comes to mind when you think about headphones but perhaps they should be given Harry and Linette’s opinion on their Spirit One S headphones costing just 179 EUR.

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Headphone Month At Hifi Pig – Extended Version

As you will be aware August has been Headphone Month at Hifi PIg, but given the sheer volume of products we have been sent, and the fact that stuff is still arriving today, we have decided to extend into September. During September you can expect to see lots of conventional hifi reviews but mixed up […]