October has been a very busy month, so catch up with everything that happened with our news round up. There is plenty of news and of course reviews, plus show reports. This month we are very much looking forward to the Audio Video Show in Warsaw, where we will be bringing you extensive coverage or […]
I love hifi shows. Time to see old friends and new equipment, and of course some old favourites, too. It gave me the chance to meet both new faces and products at a new location for me, at a time when this hitherto fairly unknown show now wants to turn up the volume and make […]
Dekoni Audio has announced a partnership with Fostex Japan to release the Dekoni Blue Headphone. This will be distributed in the UK by Electromod.
Campfire Audio have launched Solaris, a new earphone that they say they have created by “mixing from our palate of audio technologies”. Solaris is a hybrid design, blending balanced armature performance with the physicality of dynamic drivers.
Hifi enthusiasts and especially fans of high-quality headphones have a treat in store on Saturday, November 24th and Sunday, November 25th, at the Mercure conference hotel in Krefeld-Traar, Germany.
LectorStrumenti Audio have released their new ZUM – H hybrid headphone amplifier. It has a tube triode input and lateral mosfet output buffer, with all circuits run on pure class A.
The latest addition to Audiolab’s M-DAC range is the M-DAC Nano, a mobile DAC/headphone amplifier.
Brooklyn based Grado labs have released their first ever wireless headphones, the GW100.
After the release of their three open backed headphones, Elear and Utopia in 2016, then Clear in Focal set itself a new challenge: to integrate the best of its technologies into a closed-back solution. The result is the Focal Elegia.
Audio Concierge are now selling a universal in-ear monitor made of silver; the new Vision Ears Erlkönig. For Cologne-based Vision Ears, the Erlkönig represents the culmination of five years’ work.
Kicking off tomorrow at the Denver Marriott Tech Centre in Colorado, RMAF is one of the major Hifi Shows in the USA. There are stacks of exhibitors and plenty of new product launches…here’s a roundup of the latest pre-show news!
September was a very busy month here at Hifi Pig Towers, we were out and about seeing the Hifi Lounge Radical SR1 car (who we sponsor) race at Donnington, we popped up to Glasgow to visit Linn and experience their new Selekt DSM Network Music Player and finally we had a trip to London for […]
The ABYSS Diana luxury line of headphones was launched in early 2018. ABYSS has now produced a second higher performance Diana version that incorporates the Phi planar speakers from their flagship AB-1266 Phi CC.
Festival of Sound, or Festival of Indulgence as we had called it after it changed its name from ‘Indulgence’ after the last two shows, could be seen to have taken a bit of a risk with the name change. We thought it was quite a brave move as the indulgence brand had become established…would this […]
Chord Electronics has joined forces with The Chord Company to offer a free interconnect with the purchase of a Hugo 2 DAC/headphone amp, from ‘bricks and mortar’ UK retailers this Autumn.
Stax invented the world’s first electrostatic headphones in 1960. Electrostats operate as di-poles, the sound comes out the front and rear, requiring a truly “Open Air” cage design with no surface area to create back-wave interference.
International consumer electronics show, IFA 2018, is underway in Berlin and MQA has a strong presence, with several partners showcasing new MQA-enabled products.
Sennheiser’s MOMENTUM range of headphones now includes a new product, the MOMENTUM True Wireless Bluetooth earphones.
Bang & Olufsen have launched a new wireless earphone. Designed as an “urban lifestyle essential”, Beoplay E6 uses some of Bang & Olufsen’s latest design innovations.
RevoNext, established in 2015 by audio engineers with fifteen years of experience, have announced the availability of its QT3 quad driver in-ear earphones. Inspired and created in Stockholm, the QT3 earphones feature double balanced armatures and double dynamic drivers.
Chord Electronics’ Hugo 2 DAC/Headphone Amp EISA DAC 2018/19 Award
Henley Audio have announced the UK introduction of the Klipsch® HP-3 headphones and Heritage Headphone Amplifier. After a UK unveiling at Sound & Vision, The Bristol Show in early 2018, the new flagship headphones and matching amplifier are now available.
FLARE JET 1 and JET 2 in-ear headphones are £49 and £69 respectively, much less than the company’s very well received previous models. Janine Elliot checks them out.
The Klipsch R5 Neckband is now on-sale in the UK. Priced at £115.00 the Klipsch R5 features a hand-stitched, edge-treated leather neckband. Combined with the R5’s light weight, this design enables the Klipsch neckband earphones to rest against your skin or be tucked under the collar of your shirt. The R5 Neckband vibrates to notify […]
CanJam London 2018 was held at the prestigious Park Plaza Hotel, Westminster Bridge this year, just over the River from the Houses of Parliament. The hotel itself was very luxurious and a great setting for consumers, companies, designers and music lovers from the U.K, U.S, Canada, Japan, Singapore and many other countries to come together […]
CanJam London 2018 was held at the prestigious Park Plaza Hotel, Westminster Bridge this year, just over the River from the Houses of Parliament. The hotel itself was very luxurious and a great setting for consumers, companies, designers and music lovers from the U.K, U.S, Canada, Japan, Singapore and many other countries to come together […]
Periodic Audio are a fairly new name to the UK market and the American brand will be demonstrating their range of IEMs at the CanJam show this weekend.
Audeze has announced the newest addition to their LCD series. Building on the sound of the LCD-2, this closed-backed headphone offers the listening experience of Audeze’s planar magnetic headphone but with increased isolation and greatly reduced ambient noise.
