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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August is « Headphone Month » at Hifi Pig and so where better to start this series of reviews off than with what must surely be one of the most expensive and talked about pair of cans on the market today…the Audeze LCD-XCs.
HiDiamond have introduced two new distributors for power management. Called HDX1 and HDX2 HiDiamond say they represent a “no compromise solution for the completion of a Hi-End audio system”. The HDX2 uses a powerful filter network and a display to check the actual voltage and the amperage and both are finished with star wiring and […]
Simple Audio has launched their Roomplayer Android app beta programme. The company invites users to sign-up to obtain exclusive access to the new control system. This new app compliments the existing versions for iPhone and iPad, and beta testers can email comments to the Simple Audio team. The Android app is designed to run on […]
Epiphany Acoustics have announced the launch of the brand new Atratus II and Atratus III RCA Interconnects! Prices start from £59.99 and £89.99, respectively, for 0.5m stereo lengths. These represent Epiphany’s mid-range and top-of-the-line RCA interconnects and have “been carefully designed to fulfil our on-going philosophy of market leading sound quality at direct from manufacturer […]