Hi-Fi: Too Expensive, Too Exclusive, Too Many Speakers?
Description
This week, SoundStage! Audiophile Podcast host Jorden Guth is joined by SoundStage’s Doug Schneider and Dennis Burger to discuss three issues holding hi-fi back and how we’d fix them. Is there too much emphasis on astronomically priced products? Is the industry ignoring potential new customers? Are there just too darned many speaker companies? .
Sources:
The Record Centre: https://therecordcentre.com/
“The Dynaudio Contour Comeback: Legacy and 20 Black Edition Loudspeakers”: https://youtu.be/xJ1GvkM6ats?si=ZCjvuqvH-piOB90m
“The Most Dangerous Myth in Audio”: https://www.soundstageaccess.com/index.php/feature-articles/1174-the-most-dangerous-myth-in-audio
Chapters:
00:00:00 Announcement
00:00:31 Introductions and the obsession with oligarch audio
00:16:49 What even is an audiophile?
00:19:52 Record shops as the new nexus of hi-fi?
00:27:05 Part of the problem or part of the solution?
00:30:22 Are there just too many speaker companies?
00:35:17 Why bother?
00:58:19 What we’re listening to
00:59:31 Outro music: “Chasing a Hurricane” by Leva & Patric Lemieux
United States
