Brent Butterworth & Dennis Burger

Audio Unleashed

Technology EN ↓ 83 episodes

This is Audio Unleashed: the world’s only totally unfiltered, freewheeling, fearless discussion about the latest events in the world of audio, featuring veteran audio reviewers Brent Butterworth and Dennis Burger. With decades of experience, a modest grasp of science and logic, and a marginal degree of financial security, they can tell the good from the bad, and the proven from the preposterous — and they’re not afraid to tell you what’s what.

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Brent Butterworth & Dennis Burger

Episodes

“The Play-Fi of Incense Burners” 23.08.2023 1:01:42

We’re on Patreon now! Find us at https://www.patreon.com/AudioUnleashed Buy-now links for products mentioned herein (As Amazon Associates, we may earn a small cut from qualifying purchases): Pink Floyd: Their Mortal Remains: https://amzn.to/3E47gEo This week, Brent and Dennis are answering the questions that really matter in the world of hi-fi: Play-Fi wants into your TV; should you let it in? Doe...

“Oligarch-Fi” 09.08.2023 1:05:18

We’re on Patreon now! Find us at www.patreon.com/AudioUnleashed Buy-now links for products mentioned herein (As Amazon Associates, we may earn a small cut from qualifying purchases): Status and Culture: How Our Desire for Social Rank Creates Taste, Identity, Art, Fashion, and Constant Change by W. David Marx: https://amzn.to/44R4Sgg This week, we dig into a new app designed to help you find th...

“Is This Gonna Get Us Kicked Off Apple?” 26.07.2023 52:33

We’re on Patreon now! Find us at www.patreon.com/AudioUnleashed Make no mistake about it: AI is going to make life suck for everyone but the uber-rich, but we’ve found a pretty good use of Chat-GPT in the form of Volumio’s new SuperSearch. On a more fun note, we also take a virtual tour of an anechoic chamber this week, and talk about Schiit Audio’s new CD transport with USB input and output. Bonu...

“This Is Gonna Be Like That Norah Jones Tune” 12.07.2023 1:00:57

We’re on Patreon now! Find us at www.patreon.com/AudioUnleashed Can AI chatbots replace product reviews written by meatsacks? Brent and Dennis debate! We also discuss the whole 432Hz tuning phenomenon and dig into the Dutch & Dutch 8c to discuss whether it really is a revolution in speaker design. Buy-now links for products mentioned herein (As Amazon Associates, we may earn a small cut from...

“An Underserved Demographic of Lunatics” 28.06.2023 1:08:08

We’re on Patreon now! Find us at https://www.patreon.com/AudioUnleashed We’re starting things off light this week with a quick discussion of Apple’s new Adaptive Audio feature, and how it relates to similar tech from other headphone manufacturers. Brent digs into how and why he plans to quantify the processing as objectively as possible. Then the chains come off, and we dissect/deconstruct/demolis...

“Nobody Actually Ate Tide Pods” 14.06.2023 1:01:00

Erin’s Audio Corner is back! This week, we dig into a new segment from Erin called “Off the Top,” in which he teaches you how to form a first approximation of a speaker’s performance without ever having heard it. It’s not quite the same as reading the new edition of the Loudspeaker Design Cookbook, but it’s a better speaker education than most audio reviewers have. We also dig into some insanely e...

“München! It Has Ümlauts on It!” 31.05.2023 1:12:04

High End Munich 2023 just wrapped up, and although Brent and Dennis didn’t get to go, they took the opportunity to dig through everyone else’s coverage to find some of the best and most intriguing new products. They also discuss Dr. Sean Olive’s online crusade to get Atmos music mixers to do their jobs, and also peruse a new tech review website that was obviously written by a large language model...

“Somebody Throws Foghat At You” 17.05.2023 1:17:29

Welcome to the inaugural episode of Audio Unleashed, the new, independent podcast by Brent Butterworth and Dennis Burger. This week, Brent and Dennis discuss the utility of high-end audio reviews, opine on the demise of MQA, and ask whether our A.I. overlords are ready to replace us or not, at least in the domain of audio production. Sources: “Mastersound 845 Compact integrated amplifier Measurem...