Q Acoustics, the British loudspeaker company, has announced that it has reduced the price of ‘Q-BT3’, its ‘Bluetooth(TM)’ wireless loudspeakers. With immediate effect, the recommended retail price of the BT3 is reduced from £349.95 to £279.95 inc VAT. Why? Brand Director Alex Munro explained: “This is very much a commercial decision, based upon our positive […]
PMC, the UK based loudspeaker manufacturer, has signed CSR as exclusive distributor for hi-fi products in Japan. This will boost PMC’s presence in the Asia Pacific region and CSR will manage all sales and support for the company’s domestic products and ensure high levels of service to retailers across the country. CSR Inc., based in […]
Russ Andrews is introducing a dedicated turntable RCA phono cable. With the huge resurgence in turntables witnessed over the past couple of years and the monumental rise in sales of vinyl, “Russ Andrews has developed the TT-1 cable to help this new wave of vinyl enthusiasts get the best out of their turntables” says the […]
For the first time in its history, KEF will be joining the internationally renowned SuperDesign Show in Milan. This year the SuperDesign Show looks to the future with an emphasis on how traditional boundaries between old and new, traditional and futuristic and others have become obsolete, opening the door to unlimited creativity. Fitting this theme KEF […]
“DACportable is a powerful, palm-sized device that turns the average audio of your smartphone, tablet or computer into a concert-hall listening experience” says the recent press release from CEntrance. Encased in anodized aluminium, DACportable comes packed with audiophile-grade components the company continue. DACportable is said to be plug and play via a USB connection. DACportable has […]
First launched in 2006, Furutech’s Demag initially raised one or two eyebrows. Not so much for its UFO-like appearance as for its raison d’être. How can an LP be magnetized? cried skeptics. It’s plastic! The proof, as it turned out, was very much in the pudding and the Demag achieved some very positive reviews in […]
Kralk Audio are based in West Yorkshire in the UK and owned by Alan Clark. With the DTLPS-1 loudspeaker, costing £1750, Alan has taken the specially built crossover out of the loudspeaker and into separate boxes. Ian Ringstead finds out if all this effort has been worthwhile. “The crossovers come in separate beautifully made boxes […]
The Avantgarde Duos were ordered at last year’s Munich High-End and after a few months of feverish anticipation they finally arrived on a huge pallet. The packaging of these loudspeakers is exceptionally clever and very well thought out, making what could potentially be a very tricky exercise in unpacking, really rather simple…though there were a […]
The Grandinote Proemio Preamplifier and Silva amplifier have just arrived at Hifi Pig Towers for review, but by way of a bit of a preview we’ve taken lots of lovely photographs of the unboxing of this Italian pairing. Prices in the UK for the Proemio Preamplifier is £6500 and £7995 for the Silva Stereo Amplifier. […]
Singer, composer and author Andrea Celeste, an artist on audiophile magnetic tape label, Analogy Records, will be performing in Natural Sound’s room at the Milano Hi-Fidelity 2016 show, on Saturday April 2nd. Andrea will sing live with a system featuring Ubiq Audio’s Model One loudspeakers, electronics from FM Acoustics and power cables from Faber’s Cables. […]
BBC News has reported that Sainsbury’s have now decided to jump on the vinyl bandwagon and are to start flogging the black stuff in their supermarkets. On a recent visit to England I also noticed that Tesco are doing likewise, though given that the paltry number of discs was in a display in a corner […]
Dominic Marsh takes this €840 package of amp, speakers and speaker cables from TAGA Harmony for a spin. “The word to best describe the sound was “balanced” in that treble and bass were in equilibrium, midband was clean and clear, so it was no effort at all just to sit back and enjoy what I […]
Quad unveils its latest loudspeaker range, the Z Series – the first of many new products planned for 2016 in celebration of the British audio brand’s 80th year. Like the S Series, which launched in 2015 to widespread acclaim, the new range combines advanced Kevlar-coned bass and midrange drivers with a specially designed ribbon tweeter. […]
Ferguson Hill have just launched an updated version of their fH007 mini loudspeaker system. It has updated Neodymium drive units for an improved frequency response and also comes with a bluetooth receiver to wirelessly stream your music from any smartphone or tablet…and we at Hfi Pig reckon it looks pretty smart. They retail at £ […]
Opera Loudspeakers say they are delighted to announce the newest addition to their Classica Series of hifi loudspeakers, the Prima, a two way reflex loaded speaker. “The Prima has been designed to be as efficient, stylish and easy-to- place as possible; suiting it to a wide variety of high-quality audio systems, say the company. The […]
ATC Loudspeaker Technology is celebrating the 70th birthday of its founder and Managing Director Billy Woodman with a ‘Signature’ version of a landmark ATC design. Based on the SCM10 mini monitor from 1990, the Signature Edition SCM10SE is an “immaculate reworking of the breakthrough model” say the company. Presented in a lustrous ATC blue piano […]