Great Britain has a long and illustrious history of Hifi. British brands are household names worldwide and are seen as the benchmark of high quality craftsmanship in the audio world. Check out some of these brands that will be exhibiting at this year’s High-End Show Munich in our special, free to download advertising promotion. These include Atlas, Funk Firm, Graham Slee, Harbeth, Living Voice, PMC, Quadraspire, Tellurium Q, The Chord Company.  More »

Lundahl Transformers contacted us about their High End Munich debut. More »

Hifi Pig Advertising Promotion

Hifi Pig brings you a series of promotional articles about our Great British Brands exhibiting at High End Munich 2017. We let them tell you all about their philosophy and products.

Britain’s best A/V cable manufacturer makes High End debut

The UK’s leading high-performance A/V cable manufacturer, The Chord Company, who has been painstakingly designing and hand-building superior audio cables in Britain for more than 32 years, will be making its show debut at High End this year. A four-strong team of staff will be on hand in Atrium 4.2, F215, to introduce the company’s exciting new ranges and explain the myriad benefits that high-quality cabling can bring to high-end audio. More »

It has been one very busy week for High End Munich 2017 news, Hifi Pig will keep you up to date with everything hifi and audiophile that is happening in the run up to the High End Munich show next week….here’s what has happened in the last 24 hrs, in case you blinked and missed it! News from Mytek, SOtM, Chord Electronics, The Funk Firm and Convert to name just a few….. More »

Merging Technlogies most recent press release opens with ‘The introduction of Merging+Nadac and then Merging+Player shook the high end audio world by introducing an Ethernet audio protocol in place of the conventional USB connection. Ravenna offers numerous practical, performance and reliability advantages over USB and the results have been recorded in a series of rave reviews for these products” so how could we not read on? More »

Convert, the guys behind Plato have been in touch to tell us what’s new.  More »

Stenheim’s world renowned Reference Ultime just got a whole lot more accessible and you can experience it in Atrium 4.1 / E106 at this years High End Show in Munich says the Swiss company’s recent press release. More »

 

The new Apertura Enigma mkII will be unveiled in Room F2014 Arium 4 at this years High end in Munich. More »

At the High End show (Munich M.O.C., Germany) from Thursday 18 to Sunday 21 May 2017, the brand new Electron Research will unveil its new IA 70 integrated amplifier. More »

JoSound returns to the High End 2017 from May 18th to 21th (Munich M.O.C., Germany) with its latest stereo loudspeakers Horus, a dual horn design that made its world debut in 2015! More »

Hifi Pig Advertising Promotion

Hifi Pig brings you a series of promotional articles about our Great British Brands exhibiting at High End Munich 2017. We let them tell you all about their philosophy and products.

Munich 2017 – the reveal. This Munich sees Funk at its most ambitious. There, not just one but two new arms will be on show. More »

Chord Electronics will be taking a huge range of its proprietary technology products to High End, Munich, including its new Poly streaming module for Mojo, new Hugo 2 DAC/headphone amp, plus the new BLU MKII upscaling digital/CD transport with DAVE DAC, (Room C122, Atrium 3). More »

SOtM will debut a new generation mini music server, sMS-200ultra for the first time in Munich, the world first demonstration will be held during the show hours. More »

“Being the “high-res specialists from New York”, the men behind Mytek have a reputation to live up to when launching a new product. With the Mytek Brooklyn and the new Manhattan II, their top notch DA converter with MQA they must have thought: why not build a portable USB/DAC/AMP to bring good sound to all wired headphones and associated smart devices? Of course for a fraction of the cost and offer noise cancellation in the process? Well, that is exactly what they are going to do with their newest product: CLEF.” Was the opening gambit of the latest press release from Mytek so we had to read on… More »

SAE will show an amplifier at Munich that is “ too powerful to rate in watts, the 2 Horsepower 2HP-D”. More »

Check out the latest news stories from High End Munich 2017….in the last 24 hours we’ve had news from MQA, Gauder Akustik, Meze, Electrocompaniet, Concrete Audio and many more…… More »

Concrete Audio are a German loudspeaker manufacturer who, unsurprisingly given their name, make their speakers from concrete. More »

Music technology company MQA say they have “achieved multiple milestones since last year’s Munich High End show. Over the past 12 months, the MQA team has been busy concluding new partnerships to boost the availability of MQA-enabled products and software; the technology has been used to improve physical format releases; and MQA has debuted on TIDAL’s global streaming service”. More »

The latest in the Classics series, Meze say that the 99 Neo is “the headphone for the Hi-Fi lover with an eye for design. 99 Neo brings together Meze Audio’s signature sound quality with cutting edge style”. More »

Keces Audio manufactures a range of linear power supplies for high end audio equipment. Keces’s mission is “to assure great sound into stunning packages and provide cost effective products to clients worldwide. Our vision is to be an industrial-leading company worldwide through design innovation and exceptional services”. More »

Hifi Pig Advertising Promotion

Hifi Pig brings you a series of promotional articles about our Great British Brands exhibiting at High End Munich 2017. We let them tell you all about their philosophy and products.

In the early 1990’s there were very few companies producing audio equipment racks. When it came to selling or perish the thought, demonstrating one, it would be from limited choice. Cables were becoming a big thing and the effects that they had on a system were starting to be recognised but the humble rack was mainly overlooked. The designs on offer were very conservative and the products tended to be utilitarian. Most materials were steel for the construction and MDF for the shelves. More »

This month Electrocompaniet is launching new streamers in its EC Living series, RENA S-1 and RENA SA-1, a first subwoofer in its EC Living series, the SIRA-L1 and a completely new network music player in its Classic Line series, the new ECM-1. More »

Led by its ex-BBC engineering team, the company has added new features, improved performance and flexibility, and introduced all-new casework. Now in its fourth generation, the new Pulse IV will form part of the newly re-launched Spectrum range and will make its international debut in pre-production form at High End, Munich, in May 2017. More »

Western Electric Select®, a division of Western Electric®, distributes and sells High End products. The first to qualify for WE Select is Gauder Akustik, a speaker manufacturer with a full line based in Renningen, Germany. More »

In case you missed anything, here’s the latest from High End Munich 2017…

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