The next generation of Motive speakers from Neat Acoustics, the SX series, will be demonstrated for the first time in Atrium Room 422 of the Denver Marriott Tech Center Hotel at RMAF. The first and most obvious change from original to SX is to the tweeter. A newly designed, aluminium dome that is black anodised […]
If you’re new to Drugstore (and I am) then here’s a brief history lesson. They’re labelled as a dream pop (whatever that is) band who formed in 1993 and debuted with an eponymous album which reached 31 in the UK charts…their second album from 1998, “White Magic for Lovers”, reached number 45. In total they’ve […]
Big Sexy Noise is made up of Lydia Lunch, James Johnston and Ian White of Gallon Drunk fame they offer an all out brutal attack on the senses with this double album – the band’s last studio album from 2011 and a live recording made in Italy. The studio album “Trust the Witch” is proper […]
Meridian Audio has announced the introduction of their Distributor 3, a seamless way of distributing audio from a central location to three additional “zones”. A zone can be built from a pair of DSP loudspeakers up to a full entertainment system with local sources. Each zone can be fed a discrete audio signal as well […]
When a manufacturer baptises a new audio component in honour of a Greek goddess whose name literally means “beautiful voice” and follows that up with a five-figure price tag, this represents a definite promise and considerable commitment on their part… but that’s just what Gryphon have done. Premiered in late prototype form at the Munich […]
Bryston got in touch with us to let us know what they would be exhibiting at the Rocky Mountain Audio Fest this coming weekend and here it is. Loudspeakers will be in the shape of Brystons new Model T Signatures and these will be fed with a pair of S8BSST thousand Watt amplifiers. BP26 preamp […]
Norbert Lehmann is the CEO of Lehmann Audio in Germany, a company that produces headphone amps, phono stages and an amplifier as well as pro audio equipment. He is a graduate in audio engineering and is a keen guitarist.
Goldfrapp have spent the past decade teasing us. Their 2002 debut ‘Felt Mountain’ is rightly regarded as indispensable, but since then the London duo have bounced uneasily between electro-pop, ambient melancholia and trip-hop without ever quite delivering the baroque masterpiece we know they’re capable of. Frustrating, yes, but on the strength of the leaked single […]
Reference Fidelity Components (UK) has expanded its’ services to include full loudspeaker refurbishment including: crossover refurbishment and up-grading services driver replacement internal re-wiring internal damping/wadding improvements cabinet refurbishment new cabinet construction external crossover conversions Paul from RFC commented “There are many loudspeakers from several decades ago which properly fettled are a match for many modern […]
DEQX Pty Ltd, manufacturers of preamp processors providing speaker calibration, crossover and room compensation will be exhibiting at RMAF with their DEQX PreMate. The PreMate delivers the same speaker and room calibration features as the company’s DEQX Mate plus the preamp functions of the HDP-4. DEQX preamp/processors calibrate your space by removing speaker distortion with […]
Raven Audio, a manufacturer of tube preamplifiers, integrated, stereo and monoblock amplifiers will be exhibiting their Silhouette Reference Preamplifier and Silhouette Reference monoblocks driving Joseph Audio Perspective speakers, with a Mytek Stereo192-DSD USB DAC, a Hanss Acoustics T20 turntable with a SoundSmith high-output Paua cartridge, and all Cardas cabling at RMAF this year.. The Silhouette […]
A new Dutch hifi brand arrived on the market, called Simply Audio whose core business of is producing high quality Audio Cables. Simply Audio’s Cadenza series of cables is made of silver and includes loudspeaker cables, two RCA interconnects and a digital cable. Termination is with Audio Note RCA’s or bananas but if clients prefer […]
UK loudspeaker manufacturer KEF held a series of events between October 1st and 7th called “KEF Week” and we thought it only right that we should send out a Hifi Pig scout to take a look at one of the events at Loud and Clear in Edinburgh.
AudioQuest contacted us to tell us about their six new subwoofer cables with a canine theme. The line begins with three models optimized for single-ended applications: Black Lab, Irish Red, and Boxer. Husky, Wolf and Wild Dog share the same Triple-Balanced Geometry as AudioQuest’s Rivers and Cosmic Series analogue interconnects, providing a separate ground-reference conductor […]
This, on the Righteous label, arrived in the post on Friday and come Friday night it was on constant repeat on the CD player. Northern Boys is an album crammed full of Northern Soul tunes made “famous” by clubs such as the Blackpool Mecca and Wigan Casino and it is a really infectious collection. Most […]