NEW VINYL BRANDS JOIN ABSOLUTE SOUNDS’ UK DISTRIBUTION PORTFOLIO
FELIKS AUDIO ENVY PERFORMANCE HEADPHONE AMP REVIEW
The Feliks Audio Envy Performance Edition 300B SET Headphone Amp is (in this guise) a headphone amp that costs €8599, a price that places it clearly in the high-end category.
THE SECOND INSTALLMENT OF LIN AND STU’S HIGH END MUNICH 2024 REPORT
Join Lin and Stu as they continue their tour of the world’s greatest HiFi Show, High End Munich 2024…
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Estelon has announced the debut of its latest speaker model, the Estelon X Diamond Signature Edition, at this year’s High End Munich.
HIGH END BY OZ UK MAKING VIVA AUDIO AVAILABLE IN THE UK
High End by Oz UK has announced its exclusive UK partnership with VIVA Audio.
TAZAAR: THE ‘DIGITAL LOGBOOK’ FOR CONSUMER ELECTRONICS LAUNCHES AT HIGH END MUNCIH
The new TAZAAR technology builds the story of a product’s life from manufacture to retail to ownership, driving sustainability and delivering a ready-made solution for Digital Product Passport regulations.
ESTELON AT AXPONA 2024 WITH HIGH END LISTENING EXPERIENCES
Estelon, the luxury audio brand, has announced where you can hear them at AXPONA 2024, hosted by Luxury Audio Group, from April 12th to 14th at the Renaissance Schaumburg Hotel and Convention Center.
THE TECA 2023 TAIPEI INTERNATIONAL AUDIO SHOW WAS TAIPEI’S SECOND MAJOR HIGH END HIFI SHOW OF THE YEAR
HiFi PiG’s Gyula Weeber takes a pre-Christmas trip to the Grand Hotel Taipei for the TECA 2023 Taipei International Audio Show, the second large-scale high-end HiFi event of 2023 at this venue.
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HiFi PiG’S AUDIOPHILE CHRISTMAS GIFT GUIDE 2023
Are you searching for the perfect gift for the audiophile in your life, or maybe just want to treat yourself? You will find everything from affordable stocking stuffers to big splurge items, from our carefully selected advertisers, in HiFi PiG’s Audiophile Christmas Gift Guide 2023.
NEW FLAGSHIP INTEGRATED AMPLIFIER FROM LUXMAN
The Luxman L-509Z is the first model to offer LIFES1.0 stages in both preamp and power amp and the first with LECUA-EX volume control.
HiFi DELUXE 2023 PHOTO REPORT
HiFi Deluxe is a kind of sideshow to Munich High End, is held at the Marriot, and is not organised by the High End Society that put on the show at the MOC. It’s kind of been a tradition for Lin and me to spend a half day there to soak up some of the luxury audio on offer, but this year’s commitments precluded us from doing so and instead, our good friends Andreas and Kirsten went along to make a photo-report of the event.
Enjoy the gallery!
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UK High-End distributor has announced the specifics for the systems in their rooms at this year’s Audio Show Deluxe which takes place on the 25th and 26th of March at the Whittlebury Park hotel near the Silverstone racetrack. Check it out!
AUDIOFREAKS will be exhibiting at this year’s Audio Show Deluxe which will take place on Saturday 25th, and Sunday 26th March at Whittlebury Park, Northamptonshire, a stone’s throw from the famous Silverstone race circuit.
AUDIO SHOW DELUXE 2023 – ABSOLUTE SOUNDS
Absolute Sounds will be exhibiting at this year’s Audio Show Deluxe which will take place on Saturday 25th and Sunday 26th March at Whittlebury Park, Northamptonshire, a stone’s throw from the famous Silverstone race circuit.
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LINN SELEKT DSM ECOSYSTEM GETS NEW MODULAR PRODUCT UPGRADES
Linn has made sustainability a cornerstone of their product offering for decades, with products that can be upgraded over time, as technology advances.
STEP UP TO AUDIO SHOW DELUXE 2023
The organisers of AUDIO SHOW DELUXE 2023 at Whittlebury Park have announced that all the available suites for the event are now filled and have given us a sneak peek of the companies confirmed and taking part so far. Take a look!
HiFi Pig MEET BURMESTER IN STUTTGART
On the road in Germany with Burmester at Studio 26, at the Sophienstraße, Stuttgart.
HIFI PIG ADVERTISING PROMOTION
HiFi Pig brings you a series of promotional articles about the essential brands of High End Munich 2022. As well as the High End Society show at the MOC, there is also a free entry show, the HiFi Deluxe at the Munich Marriott Hotel, with a shuttle bus from the MOC to get you there.
Read on for more about their philosophy, their products and, of course, where they will be at this year’s HiFi Deluxe Show.
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WIRES 4 MUSIC OSIRIS MK2 CABLES ANNOUNCED
Wires 4 Music, a Spanish company dedicated to the manufacture of high-end audio cables, has announced the renewal of its Osiris range, which will be renamed Osiris MK2.
MEZE AUDIO ELITE ISODYNAMIC HEADPHONES LAUNCHED
Romanian company Meze Audio has launched a brand new addition to their high-end listening range, the Meze Audio ELITE Isodynamic Headphones.
Estelon is a high-end loudspeaker manufacturer based in Estonia and this year they are celebrating ten years of creating what they hope are “the world’s best loudspeakers”. Hifi Pig caught up with chief designer and engineer Alfred Vassilkov to ask him a few questions about the brand, their philosophy, and more.
A big thanks to GamuT who have donated a 1.5m pair of GamuT Reference interconnects, with a choice of either RCA or XLR terminations. The retail value of these is £2,700. (You don’t get a copy of Rumours, but you do get the GamuT cable box which doubles as a mega-cool LP carrier).
The Current prize list is as follows,:
Kralk Audio BC-30 FL loudspeakers in Statement Silver Oak & Tellurium Q Black speaker cables up to 2.5m in length
Chord Company £600, 1.5m Signature Array Power Cable (county designated plug)
IsoTek mains loom (UK plugs and sockets) From Sound Fowndations £750
Studio Connection interconnect and mains cable (country designated plug) £600 and £200
Signed Brian May photo
Audio Suspension ASU-100 Turnatble Shelf (£240)
Sanus VuePoint 47-80” Tilting TV Mount (£69.99)
Two Audiomica MAGNET GOLD power cables, worth 400 CHF each. One cable has a Schuko plug and the other a 16 amp Swiss plug. Donated by Artizan Audio.
Lyudmila Gorbulya handpainted plate from Voyla Audio
Flare R2S earphone (£300 ) and Isolate Pro (£46)
1.5m pair of GamuT Reference interconnects, (£2700)
These will be drawn in the above order once the 30 days of fundraising has finished. Please leave your full name when donating to make it easier for us to contact you and save the email that you receive confirming your donation, if you are a winner you will need to send this to us with your shipping details.
Spiritland, opening in September in King’s Cross, London is “a world first music-led concept built around the best sound system in the world – a one-off, exceptional creation playing original, in-depth musical programming day and night. It’s all about the music, the artist and the listening experience.” It sounds like our kind of place with a well stocked bar, a restaurant, a shop selling audio accessories, headphones, CDs and records plus a radio station featuring analogue and digital equipment.
The high end system has been put together by Kevin Scott of Living Voice and Definitive Audio and features bespoke Living Voice horn loudspeakers, which are being finished as I write this, paired with valve amplification from Italian manufacturers Atelier du Triode. While the system will be playing music of all genres all day and every day, at 6pm each week night an album will be played in it’s entirety on the Kuzma Stabi XL2 turntable. The Spiritland rotary mixer is built by Isonoe, a London-based company who hand build unique mixers and modify turntables for some of the most in-demand DJs.
Machines For Joy
High-End audio and why people buy into the whole concept is a complex subject…Stuart Smith talks about very expensive cars instead.
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