The Hifi Podcast with Darren and Duncan

When hifi speaker makers offer more than one "flavor" of speaker, it's typically to satisfy both audiophiles who seek more resolution, and those who want a more "fun" speaker. This is a wise move, as ...

4 Aug 20211h 58min

This week's episode is spurred from a listener question about how The Hifi Podcast hosts Duncan and Darren actually go about shooting out different pieces of gear in a reference system. Some say you s...

28 Jul 20211h 52min

Harmonizers. Resonators. Grounding boxes filled with dirt. Green dots, quantum tunneling, past-time-disentanglement, beeswax, tellerium,  C37 lacquer, nano liquid... the list goes on and on. What some...

21 Jul 20212h 9min

It begins with a flip of a switch, and often on the first power-up of a new component. What's supposed to be one of the most fun parts of the experience descends quickly into horror when the dreaded H...

14 Jul 20211h 29min

In this episode, the hosts look back on the last year of podcasts, as this week's marks a year of recording for Darren and Duncan. Listen on to find out why this isn't the 53rd episode, and hear about...

7 Jul 20211h 44min

Being the right distance away from your speakers, and in a position in the room that minimizes room influence is a large part of the effort of creating audiophile sound. This is mostly what you hear w...

29 Jun 20211h 54min

The audiophile hobby is a lot like cooking, and it behooves the chef to expose himself to as many sonic flavors as possible.But the audiophile hobby is also expensive, and like car collecting, the pos...

23 Jun 20212h 26min

When it comes to selecting a room for an audio system, many factors come to play. And many constraints need to be managed in order to get something reasonable for music playback.At the same time, a li...

16 Jun 20212h 11min