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Soulution to Launch 560 DAC at High-End Munich

Swiss high end manufacturer Soulution has announced that they will be launching their new 560 DAC at High-End Munich 2014. The 560 from Soulution will have five digital inputs including AES/EBU, SPDIF, Optical, USB and LAN which makes it a pretty versatile box of tricks. The USB is of an asynchronous design based around a […]

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Diesis at High-End Munich and HiFi Deluxe

Diesis Audio has announced its participation at the HiFi DeLuxe show in Munich May 15th to May 17th as well as the High-End Munich show which takes place 15th to18th of the same month. They will have their entire range of speakers (Caput Mundi, Aura, Ludos) and their integrated amp, Evento 20-11 on show and for demo and listening sessions. Diesis Audio was founded in Italy in 1993 and after years of development created their first product, the Caput Mundi which was the first loudspeaker in the world with a […]

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Diesis Audio at Munich

Diesis Audio has announced its participation at the HiFi DeLuxe show in Munich May 15th to May 17th as well as the High-End Munich show which takes place 15th to18th of the same month. They will have their entire range of speakers (Caput Mundi, Aura, Ludos) and their integrated amp, Evento 20-11 on show and for demo and listening sessions. Diesis Audio was founded in Italy in 1993 and after years of development created their first product, the Caput Mundi which was the first loudspeaker in the world with a […]

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XMOS xCore at the Heart of OPPO

UK based semiconductor company XMOS today announces that its xCORE high-definition USB audio solutions are in use in a range of award-winning audio-visual products from OPPO Digital. “Consumers are becoming more discerning about sound quality; artists and the music business are ready to deliver; and the technology is here to make it happen. We believe […]

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Serbian Manufacturer Auris Audio At High-End Munich

Auris Audio, the Serbian manufacturer of tube amplifiers will be at this years High-End Munich show with their interesting looking range of hifi amplifiers, phono stage, DAC and headphone amplifier. The company’s range looks to be beautifully finished in real wood and leather which certainly stands this brand apart from the usual black or silver […]

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Geek Wave

LH Labs, a division of Light Harmonic and the people behind the Geek Pulse and Geek Out products is announcing a new product aimed at improving smartphone audio quality. Geek Wave is in the final stages of development and the company are want to hear from audiophiles or more casual listeners with regards what additional […]

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Evolution Acoustics MMTwo and MMThree Loudspeakers

Evolution Acoustics has launched the MMTwo and MMThree loudspeakers which they say will “transport you into the breathtaking realm of natural music”. Evolution Acoustics’ MM series loudspeakers are designed and built around a philosophy of Maximum Modularity which essentially means that upgrading is easily accomplished by the addition of another module. The MMExact, an acronym for External X-over Acoustic Compensation Technology, is designed, engineered, handcrafted, and assembled in the […]

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New From – Nordost the QKOIL QK1

New from Nordost is the QKOIL QK1. The new product is a load resonating coil (LRC) which Nordost say generates a passive electronic field that has a “beneficial sonic effect on the AC current”. The QKOIL QK1 from Nordost uses LFR along with Nordost’s “patented Micro Mono-Filament technology” which they say in a loading application […]

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EXPEDIT Is No More….KALLAX Is Coming !

Now we’re not really ones for sharing information about common or garden furniture, ok the odd hifi rack is fine, but we thought we’d make an exception with regards the new Kallax range from IKEA as we’ve had our own (very) DIY CD rack featured on the Ikea Hackers website and we are keen proponents […]

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Something “Very Exciting” From Harbeth at High End Munich 2014

UK loudspeaker manufacturer Harbeth contacted Hifi Pig to give us news that they will be launching something “very exciting” at this years High-End Munich show. Harbeth don’t release new products all that often and so we were quite enthusiastic to find out more but details are pretty scant at the moment so here is what […]

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Harbeth To Reveal Something “Very Exciting” at High-End Munich

UK loudspeaker manufacturer Harbeth contacted Hifi Pig to give us news that they will be launching something “very exciting” at this years High-End Munich show. Harbeth don’t release new products all that often and so we were quite enthusiastic to find out more but details are pretty scant at the moment so here is what […]

Album Reviews

Sontaag -Sontaag

I was very excited when the post lady pipped and handed me the envelope that I knew would contain what is being heralded as “A stunning new album in the finest tradition of progressive rock and space rock” because being a bit of an ageing hippie I’m partial to both a smattering of prog and […]

Munich High End 2014

Events AT High End Munich 2014

The High End Munich 2014 gives its visitors the broadest selection world-wide of products from the field of high-quality entertainment electronics. No other event offers the public such an international, wide and varied product spectrum. The visitors can expect to see major brand names, exciting designs and new products. In addition to this, the High […]

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Events At High End Munich

The High End Munich 2014 gives its visitors the broadest selection world-wide of products from the field of high-quality entertainment electronics. No other event offers the public such an international, wide and varied product spectrum. The visitors can expect to see major brand names, exciting designs and new products. In addition to this, the High […]

Album Reviews

Kaito – Less Time Until The End

I really enjoyed the last Kaito offering, Until The End Of Time which came out in October on the Kompakt label calling it thoughtful and thought provoking and indeed this record could be summed up similarly – in fact it’s the same tunes bereft of their drum tracks. Essentially it’s an ambient album that has […]