Mark at Origin Live has been in touch to tell us all about the company’s new website. Hifi Pig has had a good look through it and it’s very comprehensive indeed as well as feeling fresh, clean and easy to navigate. Not only do they include information regarding their own products but they’ve also added […]
Photographs from T.H.E Show in Newport Beach 2013. Thanks to Lucette at Nicoll PR for helping source the pictures of the show for Hifi Pig.
British manufacturer Ruark got in touch to give us a heads up about their new R7 which is set to become the company’s flagship product. It’s a bit of a departure from the usual hifi in that Ruark are branding the R7 as “The Radiogram Redefined”. Now those of you not young enough to remember […]
Anthony Sallis is the Technical Director at NuNu Distribution, UK Distributors for Audiophile Base support systems, Astin Trew electronics, Belles audio electronics, Creaktiv system enhancing products, Oracle Audio Technologies turntables and CD replay devices, Renaissance Amplification, SCS audio isolation concepts and TAD Labs. In Hifi PIg’s ongoing series of Behind the Brands interviews find out […]
Anthony Sallis is the Technical Director at NuNu Distribution, UK Distributors for Audiophile Base support systems, Astin Trew electronics, Belles audio electronics, Creaktiv system enhancing products, Oracle Audio Technologies turntables and CD replay devices, Renaissance Amplification, SCS audio isolation concepts and TAD Labs.
Ok, it’s a headphone amplifier but it’s also a DAC and a SPDIF to USB converter. Dan has been working overtime the last few weeks reviewing hifi kit for our readers and this is his latest. “Miniwatt is based in HongKong and for the past 5 years have been creating miniature high quality products such […]
Following feedback from a good number of our readers, Hifi Pig has revamped its review section of the site. We’ve done away with the cluncky click through images we previously had and moved towards a simple directory with the title of the item under review and a small photograph. You can now scan for the […]
From the historic town of Vicenza, Italy, a new top-of-the-range floorstanding speaker joins the Sonus faber Venere line –Sonus faber’s at more affordable price point. The new Venere 3.0 floorstander tops the Venere range and is a 2.5 way front-vented design with all drive units being Sonus faber designs. Driver compliment is a 29mm pre-coated […]
The latest integrated amplifier from the American self proclaimed “kings of valve-based audio” sports a smart new design and technology trickled down from the company’s Reference 75 power amp. It’s an integrated amplifier with an open chassis design and is intended to be a step up to the existing VSi60 integrated amplifier which will continue […]
Oriton is a UK company specialising in making products that minimise vibrations within hifi equipment. Here Hifi Pig checks out the company’s latest interconnects, the Diamond Red (£499) and the Symphony Orange (£799) “…I made contact with Mike Stone, a former MOD (Ministry of Defence) engineer who told me all about his love of music […]
Dan gets a pair of Beyerdynamic DT990 Premium Headphones to put through their paces and finds them to be well worth their £250 asking price. “These cans look beautiful and stylish to my eyes. They have an open-back, aluminium outer case to the ears and an aluminium hinge bracket which leads into the extension from […]
Our roving reporter Simon was at the 40th Celebrations of Naim Audio where they launched three new NAIT amplifiers: NAIT 5si, NAIT XS 2 and SUPERNAIT 2. They will be available from mid-July The NAIT amplifier, first launched in 1983, is one of hifi’s most instantly recognisable products and has achieved something of an iconic […]