STEP UP TO AUDIO SHOW DELUXE 2023 The organisers of AUDIO SHOW DELUXE 2023 at Whittlebury Park have announced that all the available suites for the event are now filled and have given us a sneak peek of the companies confirmed and taking part so far. Take a look!
HiFi Pig MEET BURMESTER IN STUTTGART On the road in Germany with Burmester at Studio 26, at the Sophienstraße, Stuttgart.
HIFI PIG ADVERTISING PROMOTION HiFi Pig brings you a series of promotional articles about the essential brands of High End Munich 2022. As well as the High End Society show at the MOC, there is also a free entry show, the HiFi Deluxe at the Munich Marriott Hotel, with a shuttle bus from […]
WIRES 4 MUSIC OSIRIS MK2 CABLES ANNOUNCED Wires 4 Music, a Spanish company dedicated to the manufacture of high-end audio cables, has announced the renewal of its Osiris range, which will be renamed Osiris MK2.
MEZE AUDIO ELITE ISODYNAMIC HEADPHONES LAUNCHED Romanian company Meze Audio has launched a brand new addition to their high-end listening range, the Meze Audio ELITE Isodynamic Headphones.
Estelon is a high-end loudspeaker manufacturer based in Estonia and this year they are celebrating ten years of creating what they hope are “the world’s best loudspeakers”. Hifi Pig caught up with chief designer and engineer Alfred Vassilkov to ask him a few questions about the brand, their philosophy, and more.
A big thanks to GamuT who have donated a 1.5m pair of GamuT Reference interconnects, with a choice of either RCA or XLR terminations. The retail value of these is £2,700. (You don’t get a copy of Rumours, but you do get the GamuT cable box which doubles as a mega-cool LP carrier). The Current […]
Spiritland, opening in September in King’s Cross, London is “a world first music-led concept built around the best sound system in the world – a one-off, exceptional creation playing original, in-depth musical programming day and night. It’s all about the music, the artist and the listening experience.” It sounds like our kind of place with […]
High-End audio and why people buy into the whole concept is a complex subject…Stuart Smith talks about very expensive cars instead.
Over nearly two decades the Acutus turntable from UK manufacturer Avid, has progressed to become renowned throughout the audio industry. Visually the turntable is a striking piece of engineering, its distinctive polished chrome finish having done much to set the fashion for open skeletal styling. Whilst we at Hifi Pig always thought the turntable looked […]
Celebrated in 1987 for its unique design by the New York Museum of Modern art where it was displayed, the Goldmund Apologue loudspeaker stands as a major milestone in Swiss high-end audio brand Goldmund’s history. 25 years later, Goldmund is paying a tribute to this extraordinary product by issuing a Limited Series of 25 Goldmund […]
Luxury high end audio manufacturer Gryphon Audio Designs of Denmark is celebrating the launch of their greatest loudspeaker achievement yet, the four-tower Gryphon Pendragon. Conceived to be partnered with the Gryphon Pandora preamplifier and Mephisto (stereo) or Mephisto Solo (monoblock) power amplifiers, the three-way Gryphon Pendragon system employs a bass tower (eight 8” bass drivers […]
The latest in the series of Conrad-Johnson vacuum-tube power amplifiers, the LP125sa is announced for release in the UK by Audiofreaks distribution. The high-end amplifier is a single stereo block and, at 125 watts per channel has ample power for the majority of high-end loudspeakers. The LP125sa audio circuit consists of three stages. The input […]
As we’ve mentioned in the introductory blurb to this series of articles, beauty is very much in the eye of the beholder when it comes to Hifi equipment, but we think that the Avantgarde Trios will appeal to pretty much anyone with a passing interest in hifi and, dare we suggest, will also score highly […]
Sanders sound electrostatics now in UK High-End dealer Scott Nangle Audio have announced that they are now stocking and have on demo, the Sanders Sound Model 10c Electrostatic loudspeakers. The 10c loudspeakers are 94dB sensitive and so should be an excellent match for lower powered valve amplification or the company’s Sanders Magtech amplifiers. The bass […]