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CanJam SoCal 2017 – Part 4
|On the weekend before Easter, Hi-Fi+ Associate Publisher Pete Collingwood-Trewin and I took the opportunity to visit CanJam SoCal, which was held at the JW Marriott hotel in the middle of downtown Los Angeles. The ...read more -
WIN! Two chances to win fantastic Vertere Pulse Cables, worth over £2,500!!
|We have teamed up with the innovative people from Vertere Acoustics to bring you our latest superb competition. Vertere comes from the Latin meaning ‘to turn’ and Vertere founder Touraj Moghaddam has long been turning ...read more -
XT-7: a new Italian Soundscape
|FIRENZE, Italy: Gold Note - the Italian High-End manufacturer based in Firenze – is introducing XT-7, the new full-range, 3 way speaker with anti-turbulence bass reflex and ribbon tweeter available in Black Glossy, White Glossy, ...read more -
AXPONA 2017: Digital Audio and Amplification (Part Two)
|Continuing my ‘beat’ covering digital audio and amplification (with an awful lot of loudspeakers, analogue sources, and cables thrown in for good measure), April’s AXPONA event in Chicago is fast becoming one of the main ...read more -
AXPONA 2017: Digital Audio and Amplification (Part One)
|The Axpona (Audio Expo of North America) show in Rosemont Illinois has become the largest Audio show in the US. Occupying 8 floors and 140 rooms the show dominates the Westin O’Hare for a three ...read more -
Hi-Fi+ Awards 2016: Analogue Audio
|Turntable of the Year Origin Live Sovereign The Origin Live Sovereign is a belt-driven turntable design featuring a high tolerance bearing, and a non-suspended chassis sitting on three adjustable towers. The platter is a composite ...read more -
Japanese record label Ottava announces first MQA compact disc
|From the Ottava/MQA press release: A recording by Astor Piazzolla “the single most important figure in the history of tango” will be the first MQA recording to be released on compact disc in Japan. The ...read more -
Stylus Show 2017
|From the Chester Group press release: The UK’s first show devoted to all things Vinyl, Stylus returns for a second year and moves to a new venue: the MacDonald Hotel & Spa in Manchester. Taking ...read more -
Densen Releases Its First Streamer: The CAST AMP
|From the Densen press release, via Elite Audio UK ltd: Danish manufacturers Densen have launched their brand-new CAST AMP Streamer, the first in their brand-new Dino range of products. The CAST AMP is the first ...read more -
Pearl Acoustics
|A new British loudspeaker manufacturer enters the market After more than thirty years of development, Pearl Acoustics have finally launched their Sibelius range of loudspeakers onto the market. The philosophy behind the Sibelius design is ...read more -
HIGHRESAUDIO to stop offering MQA
|From the HighResAudio Press Release: HIGHRESAUDIO has stopped offering MQA. MQA is NOT lossless, the original signal is never recovered, estimate to recover at most 17bits (reduces the sampling rate), reduces the frequency range, SNR ...read more -
ACOUSTIC AESTHETICS
|Artnovion combines art and innovation to create the most beautiful and effective acoustic panels. Artnovion’s High End collection is designed for residential and commercial properties, and delivers a dramatically improved audio performance as well as ...read more -
Rothwell announce release of advanced discrete transistor moving coil phonostage.
|Lancashire based audio specialists Rothwell Audio Products Ltd have announced the release of their Signature Two discrete transistor moving coil phonostage, and within the phonostage itself, there are neither transformers nor op-amps resulting in a ...read more -
Hegel Music Systems
|Based in Oslo, Norway, for the longest time, Hegel Music Systems recently outgrew its post-war prefabricated office and moved to larger premises nearby. ‘Larger’ is possibly not the best choice of phrase here; perhaps ‘slightly ...read more -
WIN! Prism Sound Callia headphone DAC preamplifier worth £1,794!
|We have collaborated with the smart people from Cambridgeshire professional digital experts Prism Sound to give one lucky winner the chance to win a fantastic Callia headphone DAC preamplifier. Alan Sircom reviewed the Callia in ...read more