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Mellow Acoustics FrontRo Loudspeakers
Mellow Acoustics FrontRo is a £7500 loudspeaker of small proportions that employs a novel electrostatic panel for high and mids and a conventional driver for bass frequencies. Janine Elliot plugs them...
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Russell K Red 150SE Loudspeakers
Dan Worth takes delivery of the latest offering from Russell Kaufmann’s British based company Russell K in the form of the SE version of his RED 150 floorstanding speakers costing £6000 – £6500...
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Sonic Voice Turntable Mats
A new range of platter mats from Sonic Voice and with UK Distribution by HiFi System Components Ltd. has arrived so Janine Elliot takes a listen. If only all cables sound the same, then my life would...
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Esprit Audio Bêta Interconnects and Speaker Cables
Esprit Audio has been handmaking audio cables in France for over 23 years but they are little known outside their home country. Could all this be about to change? Janine Elliot takes a listen to their...
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Audion Silver Night Anniversary 300B PSE Amplifiers
Audion has a long history in producing well-received valve-based amplifiers. Here Stuart Smith takes a listen to the Silver Night Anniversary 300B Parallel Single Ended monoblocs costing £5750. Audion...
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Auralic Aries G1 Wireless Streaming Transport
Auralic’s Aries G1 Wireless Streaming Transport costs £1899 in the UK and is, surprisingly enough, a wireless (and wired) streamer, Stuart Smith puts it into the Hifi Pig mid-priced reference system...
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Dense Adapt Reference DAC
Kiran Ram takes a listen to the diminutive Adapt portable DAC from Dense and costing $209.99. The Adapt DAC from the kick-starter company Dense promises to deliver HiFi audio on the go with its tiny...
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Chord Company Epic and EpicX Cable Loom
Ken Stokes takes delivery of the Chord CompanyEpic and EpicX cables and puts them through their paces. INTRODUCTION I have not written many reviews of HiFi kit before, though I have though been...
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Pro-Ject T1 Phono SB Turntable
In his second piece for the Hifi Pig, our other former DJs Paul Hoskin reviews the Pro-Ject T1 Phono SB turntable priced at £289 & provided by Henley Audio in the UK. UNPACKAGING, CONSTRUCTION AND...
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Merrill Audio Element 114 Power Amplifier
Stuart Smith takes a listen to the $15 000 Element 114 Class D power amplifier from Merrill Audio. The Merrill Audio Element 114 is the least expensive of the American brand’s Element series of...
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AVID HIFI INGENIUM PLUG&PLAY Turntable
AVID HIFI is well known and respected for their high-end turntables, loudspeakers and electronics, but their INGENIUM PLUG&PLAY turntable is just £1250 (with the option of an upgraded platter at...
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CAAS Audio Elysian EPre II Pre-amplifier and Elysian 100 MonoBlocs
I’ve been wanting to get a hold of CAAS kit for a good while now as the company are based in Knaresborough in North Yorkshire, and being a Yorkshireman born and bred myself my interest was piqued, so...
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Audiovector R3 Arreté Loudspeakers
Audiovector is a Danish based loudspeaker manufacturer and we’ve been following them for some time as at many shows they seem to be used in lots of rooms and we’ve always enjoyed their sound, but...
View ArticleVIDEO REVIEW – Technics 1210 G Turntable
Our first video review of 2020 with many more to come. This is my overview and thoughts of the Technics 1210 G Turntable costing £3000 in the UK. You can read the full written review of the Technics...
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Normal Hifi Pig Service Will Be Resumed Shortly
We are constantly looking for ways to improve the readers’ experience of Hifi Pig, this includes current work to migrate Hifi Pig to new servers, which will deliver a faster and more responsive...
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Hegel H190 Integrated Amplifier/DAC
Hegel is a name that many will know well with this Norwegian company being very well established and much loved. Here Alan McIntosh tries out their H190 Amplifier with onboard DAC costing £3200 and...
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REL Acoustics S/510 Subwoofer
REL Acoustics S/510 Subwoofer is the latest in their current line up and interestingly is stackable. Dan Worth dials the S/510 into his system to hear what this £1799 subwoofer can do. REL’s new S...
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AVID HIFI Integra Integrated Amplifier
The AVID HIFI INTEGRUM represents this British company’s entry-level integrated amplifier, yet costs £7000. Janine Elliot takes a listen to assess if this represents a solid investment. AVID HIFI,...
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Kimber Carbon 8 and Carbon 16 Speaker Cables
Distributed in the UK by Russ Andrews, the Kimber Carbon 8 and 16 loudspeaker cables use a carbon polymer in their construction and cost from £861 and £1634 for a terminated 1m pair. Ken Stokes takes a...
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Fink Team Borg Loudspeakers
Fink Team, headed up by Karl-Heinz Fink may be a new name to you, but it’s likely you will know speakers they have a hand in making. Now they are making their own speakers and here Stuart Smith checks...
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