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Merrill Audio ELEMENT 114 Stereo Amp Announced

“Zero Feedback, Zero Dead time and bottomless noise floor using Gallium Nitride (GaN) transistors on the ELEMENT 114 Stereo Power Amplifiers from Merrill Audio make it simply one of the best amplifiers available,” claims the latest press release from Merrill Audio, continuing and adding that they are “very excited to release this new advanced technology […]

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Audiozen Build a Mono Amp Using Silicon Carbide Mosfets

Tubes, transistors, mosfets: discussions between audiophiles have long been about the question of what the best device to be interposed between preamplifier and loudspeakers is. Today semiconductor technology offers us equally valid alternatives, and the best option in the opinion of Italian brand Audiozen is the development of silicon carbide mosfets.

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REVIEW – Mitchell & Johnson 800 Series Pre and Power Amplifiers

Mitchell & Johnson may not be a name you are familiar with, though you may well have come across their relatively budget-priced headphones. However, they also make a small range of electronics built here in the UK. Alan McIntosh has a listen to the brand’s 800 series pre (with on-board DAC and MM/MC phon-stage) and […]

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B.audio Introduce The B.amp

First encountered by us at The Newcomers stand at High End Munich and gaining a name for themselves with their high-end DACs, the French startup B.audio have now got to work on a power amplifier, the B.amp.

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Mitchell & Johnson 800 Series Pre and Power Amplifiers 

Mitchell & Johnson may not be a name you are familiar with, though you may well have come across their relatively budget-priced headphones. However, they also make a small range of electronics built here in the UK. Alan McIntosh has a listen to the brand’s 800 series pre (with on-board DAC and MM/MC phono-stage) and […]

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REVIEW – Monrio MC201 Integrated Amplifier With USB DAC

I was really pleased to receive a call from Italian brand Monrio a few months ago asking if we’d be interested in reviewing one of their amplifiers as I’d owned one of their preamplifiers many years ago and thoroughly enjoyed it. Here we take a listen to the company’s MC 201 integrated amp with onboard […]

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HIFI PIG NEWS ROUND UP – March 2019

Catch up now with all of the Hifi News and Hifi Reviews that we brought to you in March 2019. Expect loads more to come in April including reports from AXPONA 2019 and the run up to High End Munich 2019…it’s all go here at Hifi Pig Towers!

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Monrio MC201 Integrated Amplifier With USB DAC

I was really pleased to receive a call from Italian brand Monrio a few months ago asking if we’d be interested in reviewing one of their amplifiers as I’d owned one of their preamplifiers many years ago and thoroughly enjoyed it. Here we take a listen to the company’s MC 201 integrated amp with onboard […]

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New Performance Check Service From PMC

PMC UK, responsible for UK sales and support of PMC, Bryston and AVM electronics, is launching a performance check service for customers who would like to have those brands of electronics professionally examined and serviced by PMC’s trained engineers.

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REVIEW – Burson Bang Amplifier

Coming from a land down-under (depending on where in the world you reside), Burson makes a wide range of relatively affordable products. Here Janine Elliot takes a listen to their tiny Bang amplifier. Does it offer good bang for its $499 (£599) bucks? 

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Burson Bang Amplifier

Coming from a land down-under (depending on where in the world you reside), Burson makes a wide range of relatively affordable products. Here Janine Elliot takes a listen to their tiny Bang amplifier. Does it offer good bang for its $499 (£599) bucks? 

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Serbian Custom Hifi Event Trstenik 2019

On 24th of March in Trstenik, Serbia, at the headquarters of Supreme-Analog, there will be presentation of Serbian Hifi scene. Some of the brands will be well known to you, but there are also many brands that those of us outside of Serbia have yet to discover…safe to say, the Serbian Hifi scene looks very lively […]

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REVIEW – Nord NC500 Rev-D Input Buffer Board Upgrade

Ken Stokes and David Robson take their Nord NC500 power amps for the latestupgrade using the newly available Nord REV D Buffer Boards as used in their MKII Amp with 2590/990 package Sparkos and Sonic Imagery op-amps to compare and contrast the merits of each.  The complete upgrade board with Op Amps are £712.80 with Sonic Imagery 990’s and £658.80 with Sparkos […]

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Gold Note Appoints Rutherford Audio As Distributor In The USA

Gold Note Audio, founded in Florence Italy in 2012, manufacturer of high-end luxury hifi electronics, streamers, loudspeakers, amplifiers, turntables and accessories, has announced the appointment of Rutherford Audio Inc. of Centennial, Colorado as its exclusive distributor for the USA market.

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HIFI PIG NEWS ROUND UP – February 2019

February may be a short month but we have packed in so much! There was loads of Hifi News and we brought you lots of brilliant Hifi Reviews too. Of course, the main event is the annual Bristol Hifi Show, 2019 was an amazing Bristol Show and we have plenty of coverage for you.

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Russsound To Introduce MBX-AMP and MBX Pre

Russound, distributed by Connected Distribution in the UK, is introducing the compact MBX-AMP amplifier and MBX-PRE pre-amplifier, the first of a new generation MBX streaming audio products designed to deliver networked music, internet radio, streaming via Bluetooth, Chromecast or Airplay and local TV sound, right to the customer’s room or multi-room installation.