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 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. […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
Audio Research has announced the new SP20 vacuum-tube preamplifier which the company say is influenced by some of their classic SP preamplifiers but with performance that is only achievable their best LS- and PH-series. The front panel has a new 4.3″ LCD touchscreen, with two large rotary knobs on either side. For the first time […]
New Zealand based manufacturer, Plinius Audio, has announced it is introducing the Tiki network media player and Toko digital media player. Tiki is essentially a network capable digital to analogue converter, it connects to a home network via Ethernet to retrieve music files stored on a server or NAS. The Tiki prioritises the treatment of the sensitive audio signals and avoids additional sources of noise and […]
When we heard that Chord had introduced a new range of affordable interconnects we just had to get a set and see if they passed muster. The new range consists of the Crimson Vee 3 (£55 per stereo metre), the Cobra Vee 3 (£95 per stereo metre) and the Chameleon Vee 3 (£135 per stereo […]
Following a ballot of the members of The Clarity Alliance (an alliance of the best of the audio and video industries in the UK), Laurence Armstrong, managing director of Henley Designs, has been elected as the next chairman of the Alliance. In order for the Alliance to be successful in its objective of raising the […]
The Chord Company has launched Reference versions of its three most popular mid-priced interconnects. Identified by the new ‘Reference’ suffix, the redesigned Cadenza Reference and all-new Chorus Reference and Anthem Reference, replace the existing models. The three-strong range of Reference-level interconnects features the new VEE 3 plug, first seen in the new Crimson, Cobra and […]
Voigt is owner of the Kompakt label and on the occasion of its 20th anniversary, was invited to contribute to Art Cologne, Colognes highly respected art fair. For the event, Voigt designed the sound installation “Inter Alia” which was situated in the entrance area of the art fair. On this album Zukunft Ohne Menschen (Future […]
Graditech are a Finnish manufacturer of audio cables who make a small range of interconnects, digital and loudspeaker cables. Their Lumi3 loudspeaker cable looked very interesting as Graditech are claiming that this could be the last loudspeaker cable you could ever need due to it’s interesting and unique construction – it has three pairs of […]
Light Harmonic, manufacturers of the Da Vinci DAC and Da Vinci Dual DAC, today launched a campaign on the Kickstarter website to introduce “GEEK”, “a cutting- edge portable DAC and headphone amp”. “We’re excited that we can take technology developed while designing and building Da Vinci DAC and Dual DAC, and bring it to the […]
OK, I must confess that Phantom Limb completely passed me by and it is more by good fortune than good planning that I find myself writing this review of their first, eponymous album …admittedly coming a little late to the party. Sadly it would seem that in January of this year they split! Formed in […]