Mitchell & Johnson may not be a name you are familiar with, though you may well have come across their relatively budget-priced headphones. However, they also make a small range of electronics built here in the UK. Alan McIntosh has a listen to the brand’s 800 series pre (with on-board DAC and MM/MC phon-stage) and power amplifiers costing £1299 a box.
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Mitchell & Johnson may not be a name you are familiar with, though you may well have come across their relatively budget-priced headphones. However, they also make a small range of electronics built here in the UK. Alan McIntosh has a listen to the brand’s 800 series pre (with on-board DAC and MM/MC phono-stage) and power amplifiers costing £1299 a box.
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Naim Audio are upgrading their demo room at their headquarters in Salisbury, UK, which means two of their sofas, in iconic Naim Audio green, are up for grabs.
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I was really pleased to receive a call from Italian brand Monrio a few months ago asking if we’d be interested in reviewing one of their amplifiers as I’d owned one of their preamplifiers many years ago and thoroughly enjoyed it. Here we take a listen to the company’s MC 201 integrated amp with onboard USB DAC and costing £1600.
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Catch up now with all of the Hifi News and Hifi Reviews that we brought to you in March 2019. Expect loads more to come in April including reports from AXPONA 2019 and the run up to High End Munich 2019…it’s all go here at Hifi Pig Towers!
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John Scott is introduced to the DIMD PP10 and falls a little in love with a Latvian beauty.
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I was really pleased to receive a call from Italian brand Monrio a few months ago asking if we’d be interested in reviewing one of their amplifiers as I’d owned one of their preamplifiers many years ago and thoroughly enjoyed it. Here we take a listen to the company’s MC 201 integrated amp with onboard USB DAC and costing £1600.
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John Scott is introduced to the DIMD PP10 and falls a little in love with a Latvian beauty.
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PMC UK, responsible for UK sales and support of PMC, Bryston and AVM electronics, is launching a performance check service for customers who would like to have those brands of electronics professionally examined and serviced by PMC’s trained engineers.
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We announced this on our newsletter a couple of weeks ago but now the winner of the Nord amplifier we had to give away at the recent Bristol Hifi Show has taken a snap for us. More »
Nord have launched their new Hypex NC1200 based power amplifiers. Previously only available from £10K upwards, Nord are launching them at £3795, complete with Nord discrete buffers.
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Coming from a land down-under (depending on where in the world you reside), Burson makes a wide range of relatively affordable products. Here Janine Elliot takes a listen to their tiny Bang amplifier. Does it offer good bang for its $499 (£599) bucks?
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Coming from a land down-under (depending on where in the world you reside), Burson makes a wide range of relatively affordable products. Here Janine Elliot takes a listen to their tiny Bang amplifier. Does it offer good bang for its $499 (£599) bucks?
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On 24th of March in Trstenik, Serbia, at the headquarters of Supreme-Analog, there will be presentation of Serbian Hifi scene. Some of the brands will be well known to you, but there are also many brands that those of us outside of Serbia have yet to discover…safe to say, the Serbian Hifi scene looks very lively and highly interesting, with lots of new and intriguing products. More »
Ken Stokes and David Robson take their Nord NC500 power amps for the latestupgrade using the newly available Nord REV D Buffer Boards as used in their MKII Amp with 2590/990 package Sparkos and Sonic Imagery op-amps to compare and contrast the merits of each. The complete upgrade board with Op Amps are £712.80 with Sonic Imagery 990’s and £658.80 with Sparkos 2590’s including VAT. Extra OP Amps are: Sparkos £60 each and SI990 £73.80.
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Gold Note Audio, founded in Florence Italy in 2012, manufacturer of high-end luxury hifi electronics, streamers, loudspeakers, amplifiers, turntables and accessories, has announced the appointment of Rutherford Audio Inc. of Centennial, Colorado as its exclusive distributor for the USA market.
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February may be a short month but we have packed in so much! There was loads of Hifi News and we brought you lots of brilliant Hifi Reviews too. Of course, the main event is the annual Bristol Hifi Show, 2019 was an amazing Bristol Show and we have plenty of coverage for you.
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Well, that’s all folks…we have visited all the rooms and stands at one of the UK’s best Hifi shows, The Bristol Hifi Show 2019. It was a brilliant Hifi show and it was fantastic to see all our industry friends and many of our brilliant readers. We also had a fantastic partnership with Diverse Vinyl and a fab competition to win a Nord amplifier.
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Russound, distributed by Connected Distribution in the UK, is introducing the compact MBX-AMP amplifier and MBX-PRE pre-amplifier, the first of a new generation MBX streaming audio products designed to deliver networked music, internet radio, streaming via Bluetooth, Chromecast or Airplay and local TV sound, right to the customer’s room or multi-room installation. More »
Encore Seven, a Polish manufacturer of valve amplifiers known under the brand EGG-SHELL officially presented their new models during the Audio Video Show exhibition in Warsaw in November 2018.
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The third instalment of our Bristol Hifi Show coverage, moving up to floor two of the show, read on for more Hifi delights!
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Ken Stokes and David Robson take their Nord NC500 power amps for the latestupgrade using the newly available Nord REV D Buffer Boards as used in their MKII Amp with 2590/990 package Sparkos and Sonic Imagery op-amps to compare and contrast the merits of each. The complete upgrade board with Op Amps are £712.80 with Sonic Imagery 990’s and £658.80 with Sparkos 2590’s including VAT. Extra OP Amps are: Sparkos£60 each and SI990 £73.80.
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After a power upgrade at the end of 2018 with 2x 300W RMS into 4 ohms, the Apurna Prelude stereo amplifiers are now available with an integrated DAC.
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The Goldmund Telos 3300 Nextgen Amplifier is a 700 watt Universal Mono Power Amplifier, made by the high end Swiss Hifi brand.
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