What do you do when the lights go out? As a child of the seventies, this was part of the fabric of my youth, power cuts were a regular occurrence and of course, any seventies-era family was always well prepared.
This year’s Bristol Show was fantastic. Apart from having an injured husband (back attacked by a very heavy valve amplifier) it was absolutely brilliant. There was a real buzz about the show, with, it seemed, a younger audience and lots of couples….and generally very busy Friday and Saturday. I only popped in on Sunday when […]
It’s that time of year again, Christmas and New Year celebrations are over and everyone is getting back to work. We have had a brilliant year at Hifi Pig Towers, including plenty of traveling all over the world to find the most interesting and best Hifi for you, our readers. Of course none of this […]
Linette’s views on ‘What not to do’ when exhibiting at a Hifi Show.
Tech’ Paranoia takes over at Hifi Pig Towers and Linette Smith thinks ‘The Three Laws” are optional extras in the robots’ optical sensors.
A couple of things struck me when we started Hifi Pig and I got involved with going to Hifi Shows and talking to other like-minded people on the interwebs. Those things were that, firstly, there didn’t seem to be a lot of women around and secondly that everyone involved was ‘of a certain age’. That […]
In this month’s Bird’s Eye View, Linette Smith discusses handbags and earrings…and a bit of Hifi too.
Linette shares a typical day in the life of Hifi Pig.
Linette Smith looks at fame and the reasons people become, or want to become, famous.
With Stuart writing extensively about taste recently, and, having touched on the subject of hifi looks and beauty myself in previous articles, I got to thinking about how a hifi’s looks have a bearing on how it sounds, or how we perceive it sounds. For me, hifi systems fall into three main categories looks wise.
In this month’s Birds Eye View Linette discusses audiophiles and their cats. Yep…cats! We fully expect this to break the internet!
Linette searches for audio Nirvana but pops another audiophile rock in the pipe instead.
In this month’s Bird’s Eye View Linette Smith looks at the possible effects of Britain leaving the European Union (Brexit) on the UK’s Hifi Industry.
Linette discusses why we need specialist shops for both music and Hifi purchases.
This month, with the Bristol Show imminent, Linette looks at the folk who make up the gathered throng at a typical Hifi show. Will you spot yourself in there, I certainly did?
Linette Smith takes a look into her crystal ball and see’s if she can pluck out some trends for 2016 out of the swirling mists.
Linette Smith brings the itchy blanket of gender politics to the hifi world.
While we are on the subject, if you guys really want us women to join in more on audiophile/hifi forums and groups, please, just put it away will you? I remember being at school in the 70s and the boys would be frequently shrieked at, by irate teachers, for having competitions to see who could […]
