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CHECK OUT THE HIFI PIG HIFI DIARY FOR ALL THE HIFI SHOWS COMING UP GLOBALLY IN 2022 AND 2023
Since our tentative steps back into the crazy world of touring the global HiFi Shows last autumn, we are seeing more and more shows and HiFi Events being added to the HiFi Pig HiFi Diary.
HiFi Pig caught up with Gabi this summer and asked her a few questions about her life in the HiFi Industry, music, working with her family and much more…
MERRY CHRISTMAS FROM HIFI PIG
Wishing all of HiFi Pig’s wonderful readers and their families a very Merry Christmas and a healthy and prosperous New Year.
TORONTO AUDIOFEST IS HAPPENING NEXT WEEK IN SAFEMODE
The Toronto Audiofest is back for 2021 in ‘Safemode’.
EISA AWARDS 2021 – 2022 ALL THE HIFI, HEADFI, AND HOME CINEMA AWARDS
EISA, the Expert Imaging & Sound Association has revealed the winners of its 2021-2022 Awards.
AUDIOCONLA HIFI SHOW ANNOUNCED, A NEW INTERNATIONAL HIFI SHOW IN LOS ANGELES USA
The Los Angeles and Orange County Audio Society has announced the launch of AudioConLA, a new international high-end HiFi Show organised with Sarah Tremblay and Michel Plante, the duo behind Montreal Audiofest and Toronto Audiofest. More »
UK’S LARGEST SECOND HAND AND VINTAGE HIFI EVENT AUDIOJUMBLE IS BACK IN 2022
Great news for audiophiles as the UK’s largest second hand and vintage HiFi event, Audiojumble, is back in 2022.
Hifi Pig takes the opportunity of the PMC 30th Anniversary to have a chat with Peter Thomas, PMC’s owner and founder.
Burson Audio’s Funk is a 3Wpc fully discrete head amp and 45Wpc Stereo Speaker amp. The Burson Funk has been designed specifically for near-field listening from a desktop speaker, gaming or in a small room. It is extra quiet and with an extra-fine volume control.
The Gold Note PA-10 Power Amplifier is a stereo amplifier offering up 150W into 4Ohms, but add a second PA-10, flick a switch on the back of the amps and you have a pair of monobloc amps that give you a total of 600W into 4Ohms. Stuart Smith gives these £1300 (each) amps a whirl. More »
Last week’s Stu’s Views blathered on about how much a pain in the fundament vinyl records can be to the avid collector, and the response to it was really phenomenal – we got messages from all over the world and the article prompted one chap in South Africa to put pen to paper (actually, fingers to keyboard) and share his lifelong love affair with records going right back to the days of shellac 78s. Obviously, I’m FAR too short of tooth to remember those kinds of things. More »
In this latest diatribe, Stuart Smith has a bit of a look at what we mean by the term High-Fidelity.
It’s time for Hifi Pig’s Christmas gift guide 2020!
Independent record label Stranger Records, run by producer and recording engineer Cameron Jenkins is now launching a bespoke hifi service.
A short while ago, bright pink envelopes were winging their way around the world containing Hifi Pig face masks to help keep our lovely readers safe and stylish.
Linette Smith catches up with several Hifi Brands to see how they have coped and adapted during the times of Coronavirus.
In recent years, more and more music lovers have taken to using computers as their primary audio source. These are often connected to audio gear via USB, the universal interface that enables digital data to pass from one piece of hardware to another.
Lee Taylor is the founder of Leema Acoustics, the lead designer and the ‘Lee’ in Leema.
A BAFTA winner, Lee has had an incredible career in music and audio, and following what is (still) the most valuable of audio educations, sound engineering at The BBC, Lee went on to work on some of the BBC’s most popular TV shows including Casualty, Blue Peter and Panorama.
Lee set up Leema Acoustics in 1998 with fellow BBC engineer Mallory Nicholls as a means of further exploring their fanatical interest in audio reproduction. Starting with loudspeakers, the company progressed into electronics, hand-building everything from the Welsh factory. Even its PCBs are made in Wales.
The Paris Audiovidéo Show will be held from 19th to 21st of October 2019 (Mon 21st is press/trade only), at the Novotel Paris Tour Eiffel and the New Cap Event Centre…and Hifi Pig will be there to bring you all the coverage.
It’s always fun to visit a new-to-us Hifi Show and we had been thinking about going to XFi, in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, for the last two or three years, but unfortunately, it clashed with Festival of Sound in London. This year, however, we planned to get there for one day but then, as FOS was canceled, we thought “why not?” and decided to become Media Partners with the Dutch show and visit for the whole weekend. We were very happy that we did.
We are very much looking forward to visiting Eindhoven in The Netherlands for the XFi Premium Audio Show next week. We are the official Media Partner for this independent Benelux show, which has been running since 2010.
If you are reading this and you are in Canada in the Vancouver area then get yourself down to the Hifi Centre later this month for their Vancouver Audio Festival 2019!
Stu’s Views – Headphones, Paranoia and Isolationism
I recently got a pair of rather splendid in-ear headphones sent for review and a few things struck me about headphones and the way that we (or I) consume music. More »