HeyJaredThe HiFi Hobbyist Podcast
This podcast is part of the HiFi Hobbyist Multichannel project for people whose hobby is High Fidelity audio reproduction. It started life as a blog in 2020 and has expanded to include videocasts and AI-generated audio discussions.
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The generated debate about the audio characteristics of valve and transistor amplifiers (opens the original)
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Back in December, the Hi-Fi Hobbyist podcast took a first look at the use of valves and transistors in Hi-Fi components. Valves or strictly thermionic valves are the British terms for what U.S. Hi-Fi Hobbyists call vacuum tubes. In this series of episodes, we are taking a deeper, more detailed look at the topic. In the first episode, we looked at the underlying scientific theory, and the theoretical implications for sound quality. In last week's episode, we looked at examples of real-world ampli
The reality of valve and transistor amplifiers (opens the original)
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Back in December, the Hi-Fi Hobbyist podcast took a first look at the use of valves and transistors in Hi-Fi components. Valves or strictly thermionic valves are the British terms for what U.S. Hi-Fi Hobbyists call vacuum tubes. We will use the term “valve” throughout these podcast episodes. In this series of episodes, we are taking a deeper more detailed look at the topic. In last week’s episode, we looked at the underlying scientific theory, and the theoretical implications for sound quality.
The theory of valve and transistor amplifiers (opens the original)
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Back in December, the Hi-Fi Hobbyist podcast took a first look at the use of valves and transistors in Hi-Fi components. Valves or strictly thermionic valves are the British terms for what U.S. Hi-Fi Hobbyists call vacuum tubes. We will use the term “valve” throughout these podcast episodes. In this series of episodes, we will take the chance to take a deeper more detailed look at the topic. In this first episode we will look at the underlying scientific theory, and the theoretical implications
Generated discussion comparing the Japanese and Chinese HiFi industries (opens the original)
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This podcast is the last in a series that seeks to explore the rise of Japanese Hi Fi, understand how this occurred, and to look at the lessons from history about the current rise of the Chinese Hi-Fi industry, In this episode, we will consider the parallels between the growth of the Japanese Hi-Fi Industry of the twentieth century and the emergent Chinese industry of the 2020s.by prompting an AI discussion to focus specifically on these parallels. The discussion is created by inputting the seri
The Rise of the Japanese Hi-Fi Industry: Post War expansion and lessons for China (opens the original)
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This podcast is the third in a series that seeks to explore the rise of Japanese Hi Fi, understand how this occurred, and to look at the lessons from history about the current rise of the Chinese Hi-Fi industry, In this episode, we will tell the stories of the businesses that joined them after the Second World War and played a key role as Japanese Hi-Fi brands spread to the West in the 1960s, before considering the parallels between the growth of the Japanese Hi-Fi Industry of the twentieth cent
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