Dartmouth-based Timestep have a long association with premium turntable manufacturers SME and have announced the M10-DP dual tonearm mounting plate for the SME Model 10 turntable. The continued resurgence of demand for vinyl LPs is bringing with it a renewed appreciation of mono recordings. For serious collectors and music lovers, a dedicated mono cartridge is […]
Featuring wholly ATC designed and built drivers and amplifiers, the new SCM40A system is an active version of the SCM40 three-way floor standing speaker, launched in late 2013. The SCM40A utilises ATC’s soft dome dual-suspension SH25-76 tweeter together with the company’s signature 75mm soft dome mid-range and a 164mm short coil/long gap (under-hung) bass unit. […]
Day One of Hifi Pig’s Advent Calendar advertising promotion focuses on Tellurium Q’s innovative System Enhancement CD. “Moving forward to this year, 2014 Tellurium Q were asked if a distributor could source burn in discs to provide with a few of the very highest end cables. Tellurium Q talked with a producer but long story cut […]
Tidal (expect a Hifi Pig review in the next 24 hours) has announced the integration of its service within the ickStream music platform, which delivers music streaming services to home audio devices. ickStream’s recent support of the Logitech Squeezebox brings TIDAL to the popular device. The latest release of the ickStream app for the Squeezebox […]
This new cable is composed of four copper conductors, isolated with polyethylene (XLPE) which the company says has “excellent isolation qualities and much better than the often used PVC”. The HQ (High Quality) cable is double shielded with aluminium foil and a copper braid. There is a double symmetric grounding against EMI/RFI radiation which Akiko […]
The new EVO3 Mosiac Genesis is a five-way mains conditioning unit in a half-width format, featuring three outlets for front-end source components and preamplifiers and two for high-current amplifiers, subwoofers and the like. It brings together IsoTek’s two “statement technologies” – which already feature separately in the brand’s top-of-range EVO3 Genesis and EVO3 Super Titan. […]
i-box, young British tech brand, today unveils the Slix Bluetooth wireless speaker. Small enough to pop in a pocket and robust enough to be carried about (with a standard five-year guarantee to back up that promise), the seriously small and well-specified Slix looks perfect travel companion or an urban audio accessory. Slix has a 2.1 […]
Parasound has announced the launch of their new ZoneMaster Model 1250, a universal amplifier which can simultaneously power a home theatre surround system and additional zones with independent sources. The ZoneMaster 12-channel power amplifier has connections for 24 speakers combined with 2-ohm stability, allowing the use of two speakers per channel. It’s rated at 12×50 […]
Linn is giving away a great gift to all music lovers this Christmas with the chance to download a free daily track from a host of major Linn artists – in Studio Master quality, the highest download quality available. From 1st December Linn’s online advent calendar will offer 24 days of free downloads, giving everybody […]
Japanese cable and accessories company Furutech launch the new SK-III electrostatic brush, designed to remove unwanted static charge from a range of audio-visual media, enhancing sound and picture quality. Originally developed by SFC of Japan, the patented SK-III electrostatic brush is a new and improved version of the earlier SK-II and has already proved to […]
The guys at NuNu Distribution got in touch to tell us about the SSC Record Point 420 which is the new addition to the SSC range and can be used with most record players and aims to provide a good contact between the record and the platter and stabilise the record which the company say […]
As we were in Paris last weekend visiting the Haute Fidélité show, Linn invited us along to Audio Synthèse, a high-end retailer in the city, to take a listen to the new Linn Exakt system. How could we refuse! I’m sure most folk will be well aware of the Linn brand and I for one […]
Audio Research marks the UK launch of its new G Series components with an exclusive event at KJ West One, the high-end audio retailer based in Central London. Named in homage to Galileo, the G Series consists of three amplifiers: the GSPre preamplifier, GS150 power amplifier and, arriving a little further down the line, the GSi75 […]
Noble Audio has launched a universal-fit version of its flagship 10-driver in-ear monitor (IEM). The new K10 (£999) follows the success of the range-topping custom-fit model and is now available as a handcrafted IEM in Noble’s signature universal form factor. The K10 (Kaiser 10) is a ten-armature IEM and is a low- impedance four-way design […]
Auralic North America Inc. and its parent company, Auralic Limited, have announced that TIDAL, the first lossless music streaming service with HD music videos and curated editorial, has been integrated in their ARIES Streamer Bridge. AURALiC’s Lightning streaming is the industry’s first whole-house, high-resolution streaming solution that supports music playback up to Double-Rate DSD and DXD formats. The ARIES, the first […]