Kitchens Of Distinction – Folly
Kitchens of Distinction formed as a band in 1986 releasing just four studio albums, as well as a few singles and EPs on the One Little Indian label, before disbanding in 1996. Lead vocalist Patrick Fitzgerald explains the gestation of their first album in 19 years, “Folly”: “These songs came together over a two-year period […]
Acoustic Sounds Offer DSD Downloads
Acoustic Sounds, the online music store, has announced it will be offering mainstream albums from leading labels in the DSD format – used to master SACDs. Initially 46 albums will be available in the DSD format including Counting Crows’ ”August and Everything After”, Rickie Lee Jones’ “Traffic From Paradise”, Herbie Hancock’s “Maiden Voyage” and John […]
Parasounds New Halo P 5 Preamplifier
Parasound has announced the addition of a new 2.1 channel preamplifier to its Halo product line( Jerry reviewed the Halo A21 amp some time ago giving it a Recommended award). The new Halo P 5 replaces the Halo P 3 preamplifier adding a DAC with coaxial, optical and USB inputs. Also included is a subwoofer […]
Thundercat – Apocalypse
Ok, so a few of you may be familiar with Mr Cat (Stephen Bruner to his friends), either from his recent role as bassist in LA superpunks Suicidal Tendencies or his collaborations with Erykah Badu and Flying Lotus. If it’s the former, this album will really come flying out of leftfield for you, but those […]
Franz Ferdinand – Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Actions
“Sometimes I wish you were here….weather permitting…” Well, the weather apparently does permit because Scotland’s Franz Ferdinand are back with their fourth full length album. The band has been plying their trade of innocuous but eminently danceable indie rock for over a decade now and have achieved some pretty massive success, most notably from the […]
Roksan K2 BT 150 Amplifier
Roksan have announced the launch of their K2 BT 150 amplifier which takes elements of the previous K2 model but improves connectivity, flexibility and sonics. The power rating is increased from 120W to 150W per channel whilst high frequency noise has been radically reduced in both the pre section and the power amplifier section. The […]
ATC’s Announce Launch of Passive SCM7 and SCM 11 Loudspeakers
Featuring the new ATC designed and built 25mm soft dome tweeter, updated bass/mid drivers and crossovers housed in a curved, laminated cabinet, the first of a new range of ATC closed-box passive loudspeakers has been announced. The third generation SCM7 and second gen. SCM11 are the first to employ ATC’s landmark SH25-76 tweeter, developed to […]
Bryston Announce New Loudspeakers
Bryston, has announced the introduction of a new series of loudspeakers designed to complement their Model T offering introduced at CES 2013. The Model A series has the same design principals as the Model T, with a focus toward minimizing distortion and compression during music and home theater playback. The new Model A series relies […]
Polyphonic Spree – Yes, It’s True
Whilst I enjoyed the Polyphonic Spree’s first album “The Beginning Stages of…” they were never really a band that I explored further than that one album and perhaps this has been a mistake on my part given how much I loved “Yes, It’s True”. The first album was a gloriously positive and uplifting offering from […]
Held Lampi Project – Digital Dreaming
This is not a new album having been released in 2004 but it looked interesting and so I thought I’d give it a whirl anyway. It’s a collaboration between Jim Lampi and the German producer Zeus B Held (what a fabulous name that is!) with input from Australian musicians including Craig T and Damian Armstrong […]
Quadral Introduce New Loudspeakers
Quadral have contacted us to tell us about a new range of loudspeakers soon to be introduced. First up is he quadral Rondo active desktop monitor which comes with a 115mm polypropylene woofer and a titanium RiCOm tweeter. Rondo will have an aoutput in excess of 100 Watts, has Bluetooth (aptX), USB and soundcard connectivity. […]
STST Motus Turntables Debut in UK
Guy from Pure Sound contacted Hifi Pig to let us know about the UK arrival of the STST Motus II turntable and Vertex tonearm. STST are a German Hi-Fi manufacturer founded by Stefan Strohmetz in 1985 and they make two turntables called Motus and Motus II which both utilise an ‘in house’ designed direct drive motor. […]
New Website for Tuning Specialist Akiko Audio
The guys at Akiko got in touch to tell us all about there new website launched this weeks that they seem pretty proud of. They have eight new products and a fully stocked webshop so you can purchase stuff direct. “It feels like a new start,” said co-owner Sander van Berlo, who started along with […]
Hawkwind – Warrior on the Edge of Time 3 CD Edition
OK, before you read this review of Hawkwind’s “Warrior on the Edge of Time” Three Disc Expanded Edition, you ought to know that I’m a bit of a fanboy of Mr Brock and his cohorts. However, having replaced most of my (stupidly sold vinyl) Hawkwind collection with CDs (and Vinyl) Warrior was one of the […]