“You Made Humor and I Didn't Understand It”

About this episode

Brent and Dennis discuss CES reports, age-related hearing loss, and delve into Class G and H amplifier topologies.

We’re on Patreon! Find us at https://www.patreon.com/AudioUnleashedAlthough Brent and Dennis will probably never again work up the gumption to attend CES, they can muster the courage to read through others’ CES reports and weigh in with their own opinions. That’s this week’s first segment. Then they check out an article from Darko about age-related hearing loss and its relationship with audio copium, and think real hard about whether buying a $10,000 DAC is worth it if you can’t hear above 12 kHz. They then take a TAS hostage video hostage and use it as a jumping-off point for a deep dive into Class G and H amp topologies. And for Patrons: What the heck is Snyderman’s Maxim? And would you want a million-dollar audio system if you could only use it to listen to “Hotel California”? 📖 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…

People in this episode

Hosts: Brent Butterworth, Dennis Burger

Topics covered

• CES
• age-related hearing loss
• audio equipment
• Class G and H amplifiers
• audio systems
• Patreon

Keywords

• CES
• hearing loss
• DAC
• Class G amplifiers
• Class H amplifiers
• audio systems
• Patreon

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: CES, Darko, The Audiophile Society

Products: Plaid Pants

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

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