Having been a bit of a fan of Lemmy and his cohorts in our early years (and still to this day it has to be said) it’s with a great deal of interest that Hifi Pig read the news that Motorhead had launched their very own brand of headphones on to the market and felt […]
Audio Suspension based in Brighton, UK are the latest company to launch contemporary hi-fi support systems, but they are taking a different approach to others we have recently run news items about. Audio Suspension have launched a wall-mount shelf, the ASU-100. The system has been designed to provide isolation from unwanted resonance, whilst offering a […]
Ontario based Bryston LTD who are celebrating 50 years this year, has announced the introduction of the BDA-2 DAC. The Bryston BDA-2 is a stereo DAC using fully discrete Class-A Bryston analog circuits, two independent (analog and digital) linear power supplies and dual 32-bit AKM DAC chips. The BDA-2 also utilizes a new asynchronous USB […]
RCJ Audio based in the NW of England, have announced a new range of HiFi support equipment designed to support your kit and have high WAF. RCJ have named the new supports Red Pike, Yewbarrow, Pillar, Great Gable and the Scafell after the guardian mountains of Wasdale. The support shelves incorporate a built in damping […]
The new Hercules power amplifier from Audio Electronics by Cary Audio is an ultra linear tube amplifier using EL34 output tubes to produce 30 watts per channel. “Boasting premium components, it features a very simple signal path to provide sonic purity and long-term reliability”. The Hercules uses a specially built power supply combined with custom […]
Parasound, the San Francisco-based manufacturer of high-end audio components, introduces the Zdac, a 192 kHz Digital to Analog Converter. Zdac is the newest addition to Parasound’s compact ‘half-width’ Z-Series product family and it is available in either a black finish with rack-mounting tabs or the new silver finish without rack-mount tabs. “The Parasound Zdac brings […]
Touchstone Audio Launch, supported by Acoustic Brands Ltd, Air Audio, HiFi Network and ELAC loudspeakers Rod Alexander wonders if small, regional shows are the future…
We recently got an e mail from German designer Rafael Cichy at Kompatibel Design with regards to an interesting and modular hifi rack made from concrete – the Thorax. Failing to find a suitable rack for his own kit Rafael decided to go it alone and build his own system. There are three modules in the […]
Electrocompaniet is launching today a new integrated amplifier with a built-in DAC in the Prelude range. The amplifier is based on the PI 2 amplifier and boasts 2 x 100 Watts. Up to 5 Digital sources can be connected to the PI 2D: two Coax, two TOSLink and one USB. Analog sources can be connected […]
As we’ve mentioned in the introductory blurb to this series of articles, beauty is very much in the eye of the beholder when it comes to Hifi equipment, but we think that the Avantgarde Trios will appeal to pretty much anyone with a passing interest in hifi and, dare we suggest, will also score highly […]
Chinese manufacturer AURALiC launches VEGA, which they are calling “the next generation digital audio processor developed with the goal of seeking non-compromised sound” With a Sanctuary Audio Processor at its heart, AURALiC introduces several “new and cutting edge technologies” with VEGA: ‘Megahertz upsampling’ algorithm processes all PCM music to 1.5MHz in 32bit; ‘Femto Master Clock’ […]
