With its 30th anniversary approaching, Chord Electronics has launched ULTIMA, a new flagship amplifier featuring John Franks’ latest circuit topology, the first all-new design in three decades. Chord say ‘ULTIMA is the ultimate expression of the finest high-performance, ultra-fast, ultra-high-power amplifier technology available today’. More »
This weekend sees the Hifi Show Live hold it’s last show in Windsor before it moves the new premises at Royal Ascot for the 2019 show. Absolute Sounds, the high end UK distributor is taking loads of great gear and will be in three rooms in the Windsor Suites area. More »
If you are in the Bordeaux region this month there is a three day Hifi event taking place at Club Hifi in the French city. More »
Metronome Kalista from France has now completed their DreamPlay range with the DreamPlay DAC. This joins the DreamPlay One Integrated Player, DreamPlay Stream and DreamPlay CD turntable. The DAC is designed and hand-made in Metronome’s workshops in the South-West of France, featuring a solid aluminium chassis, methacrylate transparent parts, and stainless steel feet. More »
Spanish high-end loudspeaker manufacturer, Sottovoce Audio has announced the Stereo 3, a high end, active, floorstanding loudspeaker . More »
High end Italian brand Gold Note are telling us that gold is the new black. Gold Hifi can look a bit ‘bling’, but the Gold Note finish actually looks very tasteful. More »
High End Munich 2018 was an incredible show. Hifi Pig has brought you a huge amount of online coverage and now our coffee-table style, free to download, e-magazine….enjoy! We shall be back in Munich for the High End 2019 show. More »
Part one of Stuart’s wrap up of the High End Munich 2018 Show. Loads of great pictures of some of the best Hifi in the world. More »
Every year the High End Society has a ‘Newcomers’ stand where they give exhibition space to a few, very lucky, new companies and products. We always take a great interest in this area as it really shows the future of the industry. Several success stories have come out of the Newcomers stand at High End Munich over the years, among them PureAudioProject, Westminster Labs and b.audio, to name just a few. More »
What more is there to add. A bit of a piece on horn loudspeakers we saw at High End in Munich and HIfi Deluxe…
Every year we say the same thing, ‘surely the High End Show can’t get any bigger?’, but every year it does! It is now at the point when no human can actually cover every inch of the show…we have tried our very best but I think Super-human powers would be needed for that! However, being very organised and attacking it with military precision meant that we got to see most rooms and exhibits with the aim of bringing you the most comprehensive and interesting coverage of the show…we even managed to get over to the HifiDeluxe show too and bring you CanJam Munich coverage. More »
High End Society’s press release summing up the facts and figures of the show, plus read on for the High End Munich 2019 date! More »
Turntables were absolutely everywhere at this year’s Munich High-End and so here are some of the ones that stood out on our travels around the show…with a handful from Audio-Deluxe thrown in for good measure. We have no way of seeing everything at the show and know we will have missed a good proportion but hope you enjoy all these lovely turntables. More »
Vivid Audio say that their new KAYA range of loudspeakers is “Vivid in a more accessible format”. You get all the same GIYA technology inside a modern and more room friendly enclosure. The bass drivers have their own re-entrant exponential horn absorber, first found in the Laurence Dickie designed B&W Nautilus loudspeaker in the form of a snail’s shell. More »
French brand, Focal, used High End Munich 2018 to launch its new Grande Utopia EM Evo and Stella Utopia EM Evo loudspeakers. This was another highly popular launch with standing room only for a lot of the world’s Hifi press. More »
French brand, Focal, used High End Munich 2018 to launch its new Grande Utopia EM Evo and Stella Utopia EM Evo loudspeakers. This was another highly popular launch with standing room only for a lot of the world’s Hifi press. More »
Chord Electronics certainly had the world’s Hifi Press beating a path to their door at High End Munich this year. Their room was so busy that some had to wait outside, luckily Hifi Pig was in there for a first glimpse of their new products. The full team were there and as always it was a pleasure to see them and great to see the iconic British brand in such high demand at the world’s major international Hifi Show. More »
So, what happens when you give the designers at PMC, a company known for its monitor speakers and strong links with pro audio, complete freedom to design a new, flagship pair of speakers? Well that’s what we were dying to find out as we made our way into the packed press conference in the PMC room at the MOC Munich on Thursday. We were expecting something pretty special as the new speakers were being hyped as PMC’s most significant launch since the BB5 in the early 90’s. More »
The Chord Company will be offering the chance to experience the difference high-quality A/V cabling can make with a range of demonstrations at High End 2018, that showcase the British company’s innovative proprietary technologies. Find The Chord Company at High End: Atrium 4, Room F107 (with distributor DREI H) More »
It’s nearly here! Audiophiles and exhibitors from all over the world are converging on the MOC for High End Munich 2018. The mammouth task of setting up hundreds of exhibits is beginning with les than 48hrs to go until the doors open on what promises to be an incredible show. More »
Goldmund are being quite secretive about what they will have at Munich… they told us: More »
Rune Skov of Raidho got in touch to tell us their news about their room at High End Munich 2018. More »
After 33 years at the helm of iconic Danish High End brand Gryphon Audio Designs, Flemming Erik Rasmussen is withdrawing from the company he created almost unintentionally in 1985. More »
The sNH-10G is a SOtM’s first network switch for every network audio system. It has 8 LAN port and 2 SFP port, the sCLK-EX and the 10MHz master clock connector can be added optionally. More »
We always make sure that we spend time at each High End Munich show having a chat with the brands on the Newcomers stand. This gives us a chance to give the crystal ball a rub and see into the future of Hifi, so of course when we hear that a brand is going from strength to strength after their first High End, it’s really great news! More »
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