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Bird’s Eye View – Set Adrift Without An Anchor

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.

A Bird’s Eye View Of Bristol Sound And Vision 2018

01. March 2018 · Write a comment · Categories: Bristol Sound And Vision 2018, Hifi Shows · Tags: amplifiers, audiophile, Birds Eye View, Bristol Hifi Show, Bristol Show, Bristol Sound And Vision, Bristol Sound And Vision 2018, hifi show, Hifi Shows, Loudspeakers, turntable

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 was a little quieter but that was quite early on. Although it does come over as a very ‘Hifi Industry’ Show there were loads of public in attendance, queuing round the block to get in. More »

Bird’s Eye View Of 2017 And What Can We Expect In 2018?

03. January 2018 · Write a comment · Categories: Birds Eye View, Comment · Tags: Audio Video Show Warsaw 2017, audiophile, Birds Eye View, hi fi news, hi fi reviews, hifi, hifi news, hifi reviews, hifi show, Hifi Shows, High End Munich 2017, High End Munich 2018, High End Society

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 would be possible without the ever growing core team of Pigsters, our exceptionally talented and knowledgeable writers and reviewers. Team Hifi Pig and every Hifi Pig reader out there, we salute you! More »

The Pitfalls Of Exhibiting At A Hifi Show

01. December 2017 · Write a comment · Categories: Birds Eye View, Comment · Tags: Birds Eye View, hifi, hifi show, Hifi Shows

Linette’s views on ‘What not to do’ when exhibiting at a Hifi Show. More »

Are Our Super Connected Lives Making Us Lazy?

30. March 2017 · Write a comment · Categories: Birds Eye View, Comment · Tags: Birds Eye View, streaming audio, Tech

Tech’ Paranoia takes over at Hifi Pig Towers and Linette Smith thinks ‘The Three Laws” are optional extras in the robots’ optical sensors. More »

The Universal Language

29. November 2016 · Write a comment · Categories: Birds Eye View, Comment · Tags: Birds Eye View

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 was five years ago and things are changing. Every show we go to I see more women and we are starting to see a younger audience in attendance. Which is how it should be. When it comes down to it, Hifi is about music and music is “a universal language, spoken and understood by all” (OK, that quote relates to House Music…but you get my drift). More »

Handbags At Dawn

27. October 2016 · Write a comment · Categories: Birds Eye View, Comment · Tags: Birds Eye View

In this month’s Bird’s Eye View, Linette Smith discusses handbags and earrings…and a bit of Hifi too.

A Day In the Life At Hifi Pig Towers

30. September 2016 · Write a comment · Categories: Birds Eye View, Comment · Tags: Birds Eye View

Linette shares a typical day in the life of Hifi Pig.

Tonight, I’m A Rock And Roll Star

31. August 2016 · Write a comment · Categories: Birds Eye View, Comment · Tags: Birds Eye View, hifi comment

Linette Smith looks at fame and the reasons people become, or want to become, famous.

Beauty Is In The Eye Of The Beholder

27. July 2016 · Write a comment · Categories: Birds Eye View, Comment · Tags: Birds Eye View

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. More »

The Audiophile Cat

30. June 2016 · Write a comment · Categories: Birds Eye View, Comment · Tags: Birds Eye View

In this month’s Birds Eye View Linette discusses audiophiles and their cats. Yep…cats! We fully expect this to break the internet! More »

Enough Is Enough…Or Is It?

02. June 2016 · Write a comment · Categories: Birds Eye View, Comment · Tags: Birds Eye View

Linette searches for audio Nirvana but pops another audiophile rock in the pipe instead.

What Effect Would A Potential Brexit Have On The UK Hifi Industry?

30. April 2016 · Write a comment · Categories: Birds Eye View, Comment · Tags: Birds Eye View, hifi news

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. More »

Why We Still Need Specialist Hifi Shops

23. March 2016 · Write a comment · Categories: Birds Eye View, Comment · Tags: Birds Eye View

Linette discusses why we need specialist shops for both music and Hifi purchases.

Anatomy Of A Hifi Show

24. February 2016 · Write a comment · Categories: Birds Eye View, Comment · Tags: Birds Eye View, Hifi Shows

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? More »

Trends In Hifi For 2016

25. January 2016 · Write a comment · Categories: Birds Eye View, Comment · Tags: Birds Eye View

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.

System Addict

17. December 2015 · Write a comment · Categories: Birds Eye View, Comment · Tags: Birds Eye View

Linette Smith asks “What’s your drug of choice?”.

Why We Really, Really Need To Stop Using WAF

20. October 2015 · Write a comment · Categories: Birds Eye View, Comment · Tags: Birds Eye View

Linette Smith brings the itchy blanket of gender politics to the hifi world.

Why Are There So Few Women Into Hifi?

16. September 2015 · Write a comment · Categories: Birds Eye View, Comment · Tags: Birds Eye View

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 wee the highest up a wall. This obviously proved that they were highly masculine so when they grew up they continued to apply this ‘rampant masculinity’ and ‘willy waving’ technique to their hifi…

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.

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