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 […]
Audiolab is set to add two new components to its compact LAB Series: the Q-DAC, a new D/A converter based on the M-DAC but set at a lower price point, and the M-PWR matching power amplifier. Like the M-DAC, the new Q-DAC serves not only as a DAC but also as a digital preamp and […]
Introduced in 2012, AKG-by-TIËSTO headphones have proved to be hugely popular with a wide audience. With TIËSTO’s input and stamp of approval, the full line of TIËSTO headphones recently earned the internationally acclaimed Red Dot-label recognition for product design in 2013. The internationally recognized Red Dot symbol is awarded to the finest in technology and […]
Earo Acoustics, a Sweden based research and development company, will be making the first public presentation of their new speaker design at T.H.E. this weekend. Named “Wally” the speaker measures only 39mm´s (1-1/2”) thick yet holds two 6,5” and one 2” driver. The design is from ground up including the drivers in order to reach […]
Concert Fidelity hand build their kit in Japan and will launch their latest DAC (The DAC 040BD Battery Drive) at this weekend’s T.H.E Show in Newport California. Being powered from battery the DAC will be freed from the possibility of dirty mains electricity interfering with the sound quality in the vital DAC section. This is […]