Latest and Breaking Audiophile News and Top Stories - July 8
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Streaming and vinyl sales are up, everything else is down. Surprised? I didn't think so. Overall, total music sales showed a small decrease of roughly 3% as compared to the same period last year. "With On-Demand streams surpassing 70 bil...
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The McIntosh MA 5200 is a multi-faceted amplifier/DAC/headphone amp and more, so when Hifi Pig was offered one for review we jumped at the chance of giving this American brand’s Swiss army knife a thorough review. In this review fo...
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As the new Porsche 911 Carrera S Cabriolet rockets out of an exit ramp at just under 150 kilometers/hour (about 90mph), with its 3.8-liter powerplant shrieking towards the 7900 RPM redline, I take full advantage of the 400 horsepower at ...
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I've been thinking quite a bit, over the last few months, about the future of high quality audio playback. In fact, I'm obsessed with this topic. I was born a music loving audiophile and I worked in enterprise information technology for ...
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Putting together a hi-fi system to one’s satisfaction can be a journey of seemingly never-ending steps, progression along which isn’t always linear. There are diversions and forks in the road to be taken. Some lead to dead ends, so...
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What ignited your interest in the high end? Did it come from the music side or the electronics side? It came from the music side. My family has always been music-oriented, so it was natural for me to gravitate in that direction. I got my...
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"Our goal is not just to create a portable digital copy of an analog LP; it is to honor the high-fidelity aspects of vinyl by making a digital copy that sounds indistinguishable from the original." So spoke Rob Robinson, PhD (above), cre...
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Look what just arrived!
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Sound Fowndations got in touch with Hifi Pig earlier to tell us they’re on the move to new offices in Aldermaston to accommodate their expanding portfolio of audiophile brands. The move stems from Sound Fowndations’ need for additional s...
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Swedish manufacturer, Primare have announced that they are now shipping the PRE60 preamplifier with the matching A60 power amplifier. The power amplifier has an output of 2 x 250 W into 8 ohms with this doubling into 4ohms. The design is...
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Vayta is a new all-British company and they got in touch with Hifi Pig to tell us about the launch of its first range of audio isolation platforms (Vayta dekk) via a Kickstarter campaign. The campaign will launch on 14th July with the de...
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Simple Audio has announced a two-month offer to customers giving them the opportunity to try music streaming in their home with the new Roomplayer+ for 30 days on a ’30 days to love me’ guarantee. Music streaming is on the rise as we are...
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With a few days remaining the Damson Kickstarter campaign to launch the innovative Headbones wireless headphones has hit its initial funding target of £50,000. The Headbones uses the same IDT (Incisor Diffusion Technology) used in previo...
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Oxford Audio contacted Hifi Pig to tell us about a joint event they are holding with Devialet on Wednesday 26th July. Mathieu Pernot from Devialet will be in attendance at this launch day event – Mathieu is one of Devialet’s longest serv...
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Open mind versus snake oil. Most hifi reviewers are self-styled. What diploma from the international bar of audio reviewing do you think they hold? At heart and by formal training they’re hobbyists. They’re not engineers pencilling circu...
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NEWS: Another display of hi-fi and AV goodies to catch the eye, charm the ear and tempt the wallet... here's KLIAV 2014 in photos.
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Been a lot of talk lately in headphone enthusiast circles about subjective reviewer ethics, bias, and veracity. It seems to me a lot of the dialog is about symptoms, and less about the desease...or more importantly, the characteristics o...
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Personable punk from Syracuse-based Perfect Pussy fronted by the ever-griping Meredith Graves. On Say Yes To Love , their debut album on Captured Tracks, this five-piece kick up a dust storm of pure unrelenting energy that's impossible t...
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Beethoven – Piano Sonatas 13,14, and 15 [62:18] Pierre-Arnaud Dablemont – Piano Resonus Classics (2014) Pierre-Arnaud Dablemont’s new CD of Beethoven Sonatas on Resonus Classics brings a fresh approach and a superb recording to these oft...
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By its very nature this website is no more Australian than the fish that swim this island’s surrounding waters. Some fish are local, others are interlopers. Visitors click to Digital Audio Review from all over the world. A website ...
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It’s no secret that Pro-Ject builds Music Hall turntables to Music Hall’s specifications and design parameters using mostly “off the Pro-Ject shelf” mechanical components. Before getting to the 11.1, perhaps you are wondering why Pro-Jec...
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Here’s a riddle: What costs $600,000 the pair, takes 18 month months to build, weighs 1000 pounds per side, must be driven by ten amps, employs an active DSP-controlled crossover, uses six ALE compression drivers and four custom-made mid...
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The year: 1999. The city: Minneapolis. While taking a break from partying with Prince like it was, well . . . that year, I wandered into a local audio emporium to see what new and exciting goodies were on display. Set up in a large liste...
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In the summer of 1999, Sony held a press event in New York City to mark the introduction of the Super Audio Compact Disc, then the sole domestic embodiment of the Direct Stream Digital (DSD) technology, jointly developed by Sony and Phil...
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A ‘HiFi Stereo Amp that transforms the way you listen’. We receive about 100 promotional emails a week from audiophile companies, many of them using a Kickstarter campaign to get things rolling. I’m not complaining. I l...
