“Where Did All the Sh*tty Products Go?”

About this episode

Brent and Dennis discuss the audio industry, analyze a new deal, and interview Danny Kaey about recent trends affecting speaker and amp makers.

We’re on Patreon! Find us at https://www.patreon.com/AudioUnleashedThis week, Brent and Dennis kick things off by using their unmatched business acumen to analyze what the new Sony/TCL deal means for the audio industry—and pine for the days when audio products were mostly expensive and mostly not good. Then they bring on Danny Kaey of the Hi-Fi Five to discuss a recent Headphone Sty post about how Audio Science Review and Erin’s Audio Corner are sending speaker and amp makers to the bread line. Then they ponder the significance of Marshall’s dinky new streaming box, which promises to Make Auracast Great for the First Time. 📖 Get your copy of the 4th edition of Floyd Toole’s legendary book, Sound Reproduction: The Acoustics and Psychoacoustics of Loudspeakers, Rooms and Headphones with DISCOUNT CODE 25SMA4: https://www.routledge.com/Sound-Reproduction-The-Acoustics-and-Psychoacoustics-of-Loudspeakers-Rooms-and-Headphones/Toole-Olive-Welti/p/book/9781032761930 Dennis’ relaunched YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@AdventureswithCPAP Brent’s audio projects: 💿 Plaid Pants, Brent’s latest album! https://cygerbutterworth.bandcamp.com/album/plaid-pants 💿 The Audiophile…

People in this episode

Hosts: Brent Butterworth, Dennis Burger

Guest: Danny Kaey

Topics covered

• audio industry
• product analysis
• streaming technology
• headphones
• business acumen

Keywords

• audio products
• Sony
• TCL
• headphones
• Marshall
• streaming box
• business analysis

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Sony, TCL, Audio Science Review, Erin’s Audio Corner, Marshall, The Audiophile Society

Products: Plaid Pants, Headphone Evaluation and Spatial Audio Test Album, tics

Books & works: Sound Reproduction: The Acoustics and Psychoacoustics of Loudspeakers, Rooms and Headphones

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