The Meridian team arrived at their Cambridgeshire headquarters to the sight of two shiny tour buses yesterday (Wednesday 12th June). Following Neil Young’s performance at the Birmingham LG Arena, part of his Neil Young and Crazy Horses Alchemy tour, Neil dropped into Meridian for a meeting with our very own Bob Stuart and throughout the […]
McIntosh Laboratory has launched their new MT5 turntable. Crafted using the knowledge gained from the company’s flagship MT10 turntable, the new MT5 sets out to offer an alternative vinyl playback system at a significantly lower price to the MT10. The new MT5 is supplied factory-adjusted: tracking force, anti-skate, cartridge overhang and arm height are all […]
International high end audio distributor Absolute Sounds contacted us to tell us about an open day at Oxford Audio on 19th of June between noon and 8pm. The open day will be showcasing the three new amplifier models from French company Devialet – the Devialet 110, Devialet 170 and the Devialet 240 – which Hifi […]
New from Krell is the Connect wireless streamer. It plays pretty much all of the formats available at the moment (excluding DSD) and plays up to 192kHz/24-bit audio and Internet radio. Gapless playback is possible. The Connect is of course, WI-FI equipped and comes in two versions – digital only or with an onboard DAC. […]
Hifi Pig caught up with Joe Jouhal, the founder and designer of the JoSound range of loudspeakers and Inès Adler, head of Voxativ, at the Munich High-End earlier this year. We’d been interested in Joe’s loudspeakers since we heard them at the Paris Show in September 2102 and so we thought we’d take the opportunity […]
Hifi Pig caught up with Joe Jouhal, the founder and designer of the JoSound range of loudspeakers and Inès Adler, head of Voxativ, at the Munich High-End earlier this year. We’d been interested in Joe’s loudspeakers since we heard them at the Paris Show in September 2102 and so we thought we’d take the opportunity […]
What is it with bands obsessing over the number thirteen as an album title? First there was Megadeth’s mediocre effort of a couple of years ago, now Suicidal Tendencies’ newie and soon Black Sabbath! Yes we know what year it is thank you! ST may be able to claim ownership of the number slightly more […]
Iron & Wine…sort of rolls off the tongue nicely doesn’t it? Likewise does the name of the man who is Iron & Wine, singer/songwriter Samuel Beam. With a name like that, what else could he have been but a purveyor of gritty folk music and Americana? Say it again….Samuel Beam…Iron & Wine. Cellar door anyone? […]
electricbeach is a small company based in the UK owned by Steve Jay making a single driver, horn loudspeaker based on the well known and well loved Frugal Horn design. The Frugel3 is a hybrid, adopting a part horn and part transmission line design. The first part of its internal chambers are constructed to utilise […]
Monster is expanding its Inspiration line of headphones. In addition to its over-ear model, the company has introduced its Inspiration In-Ear headphones (SRP: £149.95). The new in-ear Inspiration headphone provides consumers with a lighter, extremely thin profile without sacrificing any of the sonic qualities of Monster Inspiration over-ear headphones. Founder and Head Monster Noel Lee, […]
“Designed by and for music lovers and audiophiles, Aria from DigiBit is a music server system that has been designed to please both the most demanding audiophiles and music lovers with large collections of CDs and digital files for whom a powerful and easy-to-use music library management tool is key. ” DigiBit’s Aria is the […]
Hifi Pig was lucky enough to attend the premier of the Trident II Loudspeaker from Gryphon Audio in late prototype form at the Munich 2013 High End Show and we liked them a great deal. You can read our mini-review of the Gryphon Trident II loudspeaker. Gryphon founder and CEO Flemming E. Rasmussen says, “Gryphon […]
Hifi Pig thought this was an interesting audiophile item on the business start-up funding site Kickstarter. It’s for a fully manual, belt-drive turntable called The Orbit which the people behind the project say is a turntable of “engineering and playback quality never before seen at the entry-level”. The turntable doesn’t have any gimmicks with the […]
Linette took this little digital audio player with a touch screen to Germany to put it through its paces. Its not a massively expensive bit of kit but it does have a touch screen and is very small and lightweight. Find out what she thought about the HiSound Audio Nova 1 Digital Audio Player in […]
Stuart and Linette had the opportunity to have a pair of the TSAE Evince Loudspeakers in the house for a few days for review. They are a really interesting design that takes the traditional transmission line design for loudspeakers and turns it into something that looks visually stunning. Visually stunning they may be but what […]