The Nighthawk headphone amplifier by Audio Electronics (Designed and manufactured by Cary Audio) – is an all-new design, featuring “top quality parts mounted on a thick gauge fiberglass circuit board”. Operating in Class A throughout, the Nighthawk’s front end is a high-speed FET, which then goes to a fully complementary high-speed buffered output stage for […]
NuForce have announced a new digital signal converter – “The NuForce U192S is a digital signal converter designed for transforming digital audio signals presented to the USB port of a computer into a coaxial or optical S/PDIF”: That’ll be a USB to S/PDIF converter then. The U192S accepts data word lengths of 16 and 24-bits […]
Naim have announced the completion of a two-year development project to design an improved voltage regulator to be used in its power supplies. The Naim Discrete Regulator (DR) will be fitted to the HiCap, XPS, SuperCap, 552 PS and 555 PS power supplies as of May 14th 2012. The power supplies fitted with the new […]
Thanks to Thomas at Scherer Audio Engineering, whose loudspeakers we highlighted in our news section a few weeks ago, for taking time out of his busy schedule at Munich and taking a few photographs of the Munich High End show for Hifi Pig.
Harmonic Audio Labs is a Greek manufacturer headed up by Kostantinos Kourkounis with just one product in their range for the moment – the SE-100 Integrated Class A amplifier. Harmonic Audio Labs SE-100 is a no compromise, single ended amplifier delivering 50 Watts per channel using parallel mosfets. The pre amplifier section of the SE-100 […]
Meridian Audio have announced the opening of its first boutique in Kuwait. Opened in partnership with Meridian’s distributor for Kuwait, Electronic Technologies Co., the latest Meridian boutique is situated in the exclusive interior design centre, The Creative Design Mall, in the Shuwaikh district of Kuwait City. The new boutique is the company’s first dedicated showroom […]
UK distributor Fidelity Art has launched a new range of unique Anti-Vibration Accessories from Pro Audio Bono, a specialist manufacturer of dedicated audiophile-grade products based in Poland. PAB’s complete range includes PAB Anti-Vibration Platforms, PAB Stand-Mount Speaker Stands, PAB Anti-Vibration Feet and PAB Anti-Vibration Racks. PAB Anti-Vibration Platforms are designed to support audio/video equipment and […]
To mark its 35th anniversary year, UK loudspeaker manufacturer Harbeth has unveiled an exciting new model at this years Munich High End show. The Harbeth Monitor 30.1 features a new, RADIAL2™ mid/bass drive unit a new SEAS tweeter and a redesigned crossover. Harbeth claim a “more open sound, a smoother response with greater, more even […]
Etalon Acoustics is a Hungarian manufacturer headed up by Laszlo Sallay, who make beautifully finished loudspeakers, DACs and amplifiers. New for 2012 the company has released the Integral. As the name suggest the Etalon Integral is an integrated amplifier which claims a unique design with only 2 stages of amplification in the signal path, which […]
Pioneer Europe has unveiled eight new stereo components and new components complete Pioneer’s new stereo line-up, after the December ’11 introduction of its N-50 and N-30 network audio players. The new stereo components include the A-70, A-50, A-30 (pictured), A-20 and A-10 amplifiers, and the PD-50, PD-30, PD-10 SACD players. Philippe Coppens, Technology and Product […]
Sunshine, surf, and music are on tap when T.H.E. Home Entertainment Show returns to Newport Beach, CA on June 1-3, 2012 for the second year in a row! This year, the event will take place in two locations: the Newport Hilton and the adjacent Atrium Hotel—both located across the street from the Orange County Airport. […]
This arrived only a couple of hours ago and was immediately placed in the cd player. I’m a bit of a Hawkwind fan! It’s a double CD and comes in a gatefold type case…very nice. Track one kicks off proceedings and is Hawkwind at their riffing best and with the usual electronic twitters that Hawkwind […]
Naim has launched the NaimUniti 2, the successor to the NaimUniti, at the Munich High End show. This new edition of Naim’s original all-in-one player has a 70W per channel amplifier whereas the original had just 50W. It boasts a new CD player section with a new tray and transport and a new Burr Brown […]
In the first three months of 2011 just over 20 million CDs were sold in the UK, but this figure dropped to 15.3 million in 2012 – a drop of 25%. Sales of vinyl in the UK experienced growth in 2011 of almost 40% over 2010 figures but still only account for 19.5% of non-download […]
Sony SS-AR1 is a 57Kg, $27 000 loudspeaker that up until now has not been available in Europe. This scenario looks set to change as the company have been demonstrating the loudspeakers at this years Munich High End event to German dealers. The SS-AR1 is predominantly a wooden loudspeaker with the baffles being sourced from the […]
