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AudioSolutions Figaro Loudspeakers
Owned, and founded in 2011, by engineer Gediminas Gaidelis, AudioSolutions design and manufacture loudspeakers in Vilnius, Lithuania. Gediminas got in touch with Hifi Pig to tell us more about the European manufacturer’s new line of loudspeakers, Figaro.
McIntosh Announces MC611 Quad Balanced Power Amplifier
McIntosh has announced the MC611 Quad Balanced Power Amplifier. The monoblock MC611 Quad Balanced Power Amplifier produces 600 Watts of power. A pair of MC611s can drive a hifi, or add additional units to power each speaker of a home theatre.
New Custom Install Speakers And Updated Xeo Range From Dynaudio
Danish loudspeaker manufacturer Dynaudio has rebooted its Xeo active wireless hifi speaker family. The new Xeo 20 and Xeo 30 speakers replace the Xeo 4 and 6, and join the Xeo 2 in the company’s range.
Brainwavz Introduces Quad Balanced Armature B400 Earphones To The UK
Brainwavz, established in 2008 with a focus on offering ‘high quality products at a competitive price’, has announced its B400 Quad Balanced Armature Earphones in the UK.
Focal Introduces New Built-In Speakers
2018 sees the launch of two new built-in speaker ranges from Focal, with the introduction of the all new entry-level 100 Series and additional products added to the mid-priced 300 Series.
Japanese Glanz Tonearms Arrive At The Bristol Show
Devon-based Timestep has signed an exclusive distribution agreement to import Glanz tonearms from their native Japan to the UK. Visit Timestep at Sound & Vision Bristol to discover them.
432EVO Master Music Server Released
We first came across the Belgian 432EVO Master Music server at High End Munich 2017, it is now available to buy.
Soulution Introduces “Leedh Processing” To 760 & 560 DACs
Soulution is the first high end electronics manufacturer in the world to license “Leedh Processing” for its D/A converters 560 and 760. “Leedh Processing” is an algorithm for increasing or decreasing the volume level of a digital music signal.
Feliks Audio Desktop Valve Amplifier
Feliks Audio, a Polish based manufacturer of hand crafted tube amplifiers, has released a prototype of their new desktop amplifier that can power both speakers and headphones.
British Grove Studios Uses Prism Sound
Prism Sound, manufacturer of the Callia hifi DAC, pre-amplifier and headphone amp, has seen a significant investment in its pro products by Mark Knopfler’s British Grove Studios, buying enough PT-HDX compatible interface cards to ensure that every one of its Prism Sound ADA-8XR multichannel converters can now connect to its six Pro Tools® HDX™ systems.
Hifi Pig News Round Up – January 2018
Catch up on all the Hifi News and Hifi Reviews that we covered in the first month of 2018…
Bryston And StormAudio Announce Collaboration
Bryston has announced that they will be working in collaboration with StormAudio, an audio hardware manufacturer based in France, enabling both companies to, they day, “leverage their respective design and manufacturing expertise in an array of new product offerings”. As a byproduct of the cooperative effort, Bryston will be unveiling an SP4 surround processor and […]
Quad Expands Its Artera line With The Solus
Quad, the British audio brand, has kicked off its 83rd year by adding a one-box hifi system to the Artera Series, Quad’s primary solid-state component range. The Artera Solus combines a CD transport, DAC, preamplifier and power amplifier in a single compact chassis, with connectivity options including Bluetooth wireless streaming.
Aurender Joins Ravenna Community
Merging Technologies, manufacturer of MERGING+NADAC (pictured), MERGING+PLAYER and MERGING+POWER has announced that it will be showing an Aurender X100 Music Server directly connected to a RAVENNA AoIP network and using a MERGING+NADAC as the DAC. This demonstration will be hosted in the joint Merging Technologies/Terrason room 255 at the Norddeutscher Hi Fi Tage in Hamburg. This […]
Leading Rock Star Chooses Parasound
Well-known rock star and platinum-selling artist, Fish, is endorsing the Parasound Halo integrated amplifier… expect to see a review of the Halo on Hifi pig soon).
Manger Audio Release Linn Exakt Filter Designs For Passive Loudspeaker Models
Manger Audio is now offering two filter designs for the Linn Exaktbox for its p1 (pictured) and z1 passive loudspeakers. The two filter designs use either minimum phase or linear phase filters, of which the former was developed by Daniela Manger and the latter by Linn UK themselves.
High End Audio Manufacturers Join Forces At AXPONA 2018
Gordon Waters of The Audio Company got in touch to let us know that they will present their reference system at this year’s AXPONA in Schaumberg, Ill. April 13th–15th 2018.
Kii Three Loudspeaker System launched
Kii have described their new Kii Three loudspeaker system as a “Brilliant mix of cutting-edge amplification and DSP that delivers the full-frequency dynamics of a large high-end floor stander from a super-discreet active system”.
Gryphon Audio Designs Sonett Phonostage Released
Gryphon Audio Designs of Denmark have never abandoned the LP format, maintaining, as they say, ‘a consistent commitment to vinyl reproduction from the creation of the company in 1985, right up to the launch of the new Gryphon Sonett Phonostage’.
AXPONA Announce 2018 Show
AXPONA (Audio Expo North America) will open April 13-15 at the Renaissance Schaumburg Hotel & Convention Center offering attendees three jam-packed days of sounds, technology, presentations, design, and the very latest products in the industry. Now in its ninth year, AXPONA is, say organisers JD Events, the defining, high-end audio show in the United States, which caters to dealers, distributors […]
Gamut Joins Raidho And Scansonic As Part Of Dantax
Danish companies Dantax A/S and Gamut Audio have confirmed that Gamut is now part of the Dantax group of companies, joining fellow Danish high-end audio brands Raidho and Scansonic.
Leema Hydra Anniversary Now Available
Leema Acoustics has launched a special Anniversary Edition of its Hydra II power amplifier, celebrating 10 years since its classic amplifier made its debut.
Ortofon Concorde MK II Cartridges Launched
Ortofon, has announced the second generation of its professional line of Concorde DJ cartridges. The New Concorde Generation consists of five models targeted to a variety of applications and DJ styles.
New Step Up Transformer From SA Laboratory
Alexey Syomin, Head of SA Laboratory from Russia, got in touch to tell us more about the company’s all new Step-Up Transformer. The new SA Lab SUT is compatible with low impedance cartridges of 2-8 Ohm.
KEF Launch Black Edition LS50
Five years since the launch of the anniversary model LS50, KEF has just launched a special LS50 Black Edition.
Western Electric 300B Valves Back In Production This Year!
Charles Whitener President of Western Electric, has announced that the WE 300B electron tube will re-enter production this year, in time for its 80th Anniversary. The last Western Electric 300-B was manufactured in 1988 and since then they have become as rare as hen’s teeth.
Bowers & Wilkins In-Car System For McLaren Senna Hypercar
Described as “the ultimate track car for the road”, the Senna hails from McLaren’s Ultimate Series range and boasts an engine capable of producing 789bhp, which, say McLaren “in combination with the car’s 1198kg dry weight, delivers an unprecedented power-to-weight ratio that pushes the performance of a road-legal hypercar to entirely new levels”.
