August is Headphone Month here at Hifi Pig and we’ve dedicated all our hifi reviews to reviewing nothing but headphones and headphone related products. We’ve reviewed headphones from Final, Stax, Sennheiser, GOJI and Audeze with more to come from HifiMan and others. As well as headphones we’ve published a headphone amplifier review of a Graham Slee […]
At £3495 the Stax SR-009 headphones are intended for the committed headphone listener. For Hifi Pig’s ongoing « Headphone Month » Janine Elliot takes a listen…
Hifi Pig’s « Headphone Month » continues and here Linette and Stuart Smith take a listen to the £999 Sennheiser HD800 headphones.
McIntosh Laboratory has launched an all-in-one system, the new MXA70, which comes complete with speakers and takes full advantage of the latest McIntosh technologies. The MXA70 is hand-built in McIntosh’s Binghamton (NY) factory. It contains a 50-watt McIntosh amplifier, in-house aluminium loudspeakers and a dedicated headphone amp. Also included is a McIntosh DAC with four […]
Computer Audio Design has launched the CAT — an advanced new digital source component with CD-ripping, bespoke internal storage and streaming services playback. The CAT is a CD-ripper, music storage device and streamer (Windows Platform services) in one, with each CAT hand-built to order in CAD’s central London facility. CAD offers bespoke data storage solutions […]
IsoTek has launched an upgraded ‘EVO3’ Special Edition of the Syncro. Originally launched in 2010, the Syncro is IsoTek’s most advanced mains cable which incorporates “unique performance-enhancing” electronics housed in an anti-resonant aluminium cylinder positioned part way down the cable’s length. This is essentially a ‘pre-filter’ designed to “synchronise the mains supply in order to […]
At Hifi PIg we’re keen not only to bring you reviews of the high-end, expensive products but also like to point out the odd bargain that is out there. Here Janine Elliot continues Hifi Pig’s « Headphone Month » with a review of a £60 set of headphones available from the high street.
Hifi Pig’s « Headphone Month » wouldn’t really be complete without taking a listen to the Stax Earspeakers. In her review Janine Elliot takes a listen to the £1695 Stax SR-407 headphones.
Clones Audio have announced their first phonostage, the PA1. It’s a two box unit with internally adjustable DIP switches and has cartridge loadings of 33, 100 1K and 47 Kohms so should be suitable for most MM and MC cartridges. There is a selectable gain of 48dB, 52dB, 63, dB, 70dB and 74dB and it’s […]
Headphones are of course used whilst on the move and so as part of Hifi Pig’s « Headphone Month » Janine Elliot takes a listen to the £190 Graham Slee Voyager headphone amplifier.
At Hifi Pig we think it’s vital that the audiophiles of the future are engaged with and so this is why we have Harry Smith our “Teen Correspondent” write for us. Here, and as part of our ongoing « Headphone Month » he looks at two IEMs from Final, the Heaven II and Heaven IV.
With the new Platinum version, the current Confidence series has been updated with an aesthetic evoking the finish and visual appearance of Dynaudio’s latest flagship loudspeaker, the Evidence Platinum. While the Confidence have remained unchanged since the performance updates that the current generation of models received when introduced in 2011, the new Confidence Platinum design […]
Continuing « Headphone Month » at Hifi Pig, we are pleased to have been given the opportunity to take a listen to the Japanese Pandora Hope VI headphones that have a novel driver implementation.
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