Here’s the Hifi Pig latest round-up of updates from the global Hifi Industry telling you what they are doing during the current situation.
The Bristol Hifi Show is, without doubt, one of the highlights of the Hifi calendar and is VERY popular with industry folk as well as visitors, with a long line of people queuing to get in when we arrived around twenty minutes before doors opening on the Friday. It’s a difficult show for us to get to and involves a couple of long drives and an overnight ferry but to miss the show would be somewhat remiss of us. The organisation of the show is second to none with the press being very well catered for as well as visitors. The excellent and free show guide has brief information about all exhibitors and several very useful floorplans to allow you to easily navigate the many rooms of the show. Facilities at the Marriot are good too with a good bar area where we met brands and readers alike, a restaurant and several areas where refreshments were available. More »
Austrian company Pro-Ject Audio Systems, turntable manufacturer, are enthusiastic devotees of analogue technologies. Throughout their history, they have always been dedicated to natural, acoustic music from a broad range of genres.
Bluesound and MQA, are teaming up with two influential music organisations, Jazz re:freshed and British Underground, to present “The Master Sessions”.
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Merrill Audio of the USA has announced a large upgrade from their previous Tape Head Preamplifier, the Master Tape Head Preamp.
There is something very special about the Audio Video Show Warsaw and that is self-evident in the sheer numbers of people that turn up for the event every year. We’re not talking about a couple of thousand of over fifty men (I’m in this category) bumbling around a series of rooms stroking chins and telling each other how they could make a better system for less money, no, at this show we have over 14000 (yes fourteen thousand) men and women of all ages attending. More »
On Friday 29th and Saturday 30th November KJ West One’s Central London showroom will host a weekend of special presentations, seminars and demonstrations focusing on all things analogue.
Second only in Europe to High End Munich, for its sheer scale, the Audio Video Show Warsaw is a vast Hifi show. We are currently working on our big report, but have a sprint around the Golden Tulip, Radisson Sobieski and the National Stadium with Mrs Hifi Pig and see what treasures you can find!
The DA2 Digital Audio Module is McIntosh’s newest and most advanced module for processing digital audio. It comes as standard in their C53 and C2700 Preamplifiers.
Townshend has introduced the new Allegri Reference, which has a volume control with a 129 0.5dB step, reed relay switched Auto-transformer Volume Control (AVC). The Allegri Reference is remote-controlled, wired with point-to-point Fractal-Wire™ throughout and suspended on the latest Seismic Isolation.
Six years after introducing the Akiko Audio Tuning Sticks the series has been redesigned. The “special mineral mix” used inside the sticks has been enriched with materials also found in Akiko Audio’s top models.
Cyrus Audio has announced the launch of the ONE Cast Smart Audio System. The latest member of the Cyrus ONE family, the ONE Cast fully embraces the freedom and usability of the smart speaker but offers the additional flexibility and audiophile performance associated with a dedicated hifi system.
Ultimate Stream would like you to join them for their Autumn Listening Sessions and Weekend Workshops over the coming few weeks. More »
We will be off to Paris tomorrow, to bring you coverage of the 2019 Audio Video show. The show takes place in the New Cap Centre and the Novotel Tour Eiffel, on the Quai De Grenelle, on the banks of the Seine.
The Paris Audiovidéo Show will be held from 19th to 21st of October 2019 (Mon 21st is press/trade only), at the Novotel Paris Tour Eiffel and the New Cap Event Centre…and Hifi Pig will be there to bring you all the coverage.
It’s always fun to visit a new-to-us Hifi Show and we had been thinking about going to XFi, in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, for the last two or three years, but unfortunately, it clashed with Festival of Sound in London. This year, however, we planned to get there for one day but then, as FOS was canceled, we thought “why not?” and decided to become Media Partners with the Dutch show and visit for the whole weekend. We were very happy that we did.
Since its introduction in 2014, the PS Audio Perfect Wave DirectStream DAC, with its FPGA-based architecture, has allowed owners to update their units with new OS firmware.
The new Innuos PhoenixUSB offers in one unit the equivalent of three separate components: A USB regenerator, a linear power supply and an external master clock with its own linear power supply.
We know that you, our lovely readers are a generous bunch of audiophiles, so we wanted to share the news that KJF Audio owner, Stefan Whatcott, is taking on the Mudnificent 7 mud run challenge on the 17th August.
Merrill Audio have just announced their Pure Tape Head Preamp for Reel to Reel machines.
Supra Cables will be exhibiting at the NW Audio Show, being held at Cranage Hall, Byley Lane, Holmes Chapel, in Cheshire from 29th-30 June 2019.
Townshend’s products are used for isolating turntables, disk players, streamers, computers, DACs and amplifiers and speakers including large floor-standing speakers.
