HeyJaredCrutchfield: The Podcast
Crutchfield has been selling awesome gear for enjoying audio, video, and more since 1974. In our first-ever podcast, co-hosts JR and Eric chat about the gear that makes life fun, sharing shopping and installation advice along the way.
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Digital audio formats decoded: FLAC, WAV, MP3, DSD, and more (opens the original)
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What’s the difference between a FLAC file and a WAV file? Is Apple Lossless really lossless? Does high-resolution audio always sound better? JR and Huffy bring in Zak from Crutchfield’s video team to decode the alphabet soup of digital music formats, including PCM, FLAC, ALAC, WAV, AIFF, MP3, DSD, and the mostly-retired MQA. Whether you’re sorting through a hard drive full of old downloads, ripping a CD collection, or starting a music library you actually own, this episode helps make sense of wh
Where's the DAC? Everything you need to know about digital-to-analog converters (opens the original)
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You're probably using a DAC right now — you just don'tknow it. JR and Huffy kick off this episode with a game of "Where's the DAC?", a series of scenarios where you try to identify which device in the audio chain is handling the digital-to-analog conversion. From there, JR walks through the surprisingly interesting history of how standalone DACs went from a niche audiophile topic to a full product category at Crutchfield — and what the wave of early returns taught the team about setting customer
Matching car subwoofers to amplifiers: Impedance, the Rule of Twos, and finding the sweet spot (opens the original)
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JR goes full deep-dive this month on a topic that's beenteased on this show more than once — how to match car subwoofers to amplifiers so your bass system performs the way it should. Huffy is here too, playing the role of someone who just wants great low end. The episode has two parts: if you just want the quick answers on which impedance subs tobuy for the most common setups, JR serves up the fish in the first few minutes. If you want to actually learn how to fish — understanding what impedance
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