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Explore HiFi from behind the scenes featuring interviews with designers, engineers and experts discussing speakers, amps, turntables, cables and more. HiFi pros talk design, get technical, offer opinions, provide news, reviews, and insights. Bringing the best and brightest from brands and shows around the world.

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Is HiFi Retail obsolete? AI HiFi salesmen, Chinese audio & the changing face of HiFi #66 Nov 09, 2026

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Is traditional HiFi retail obsolete? Trusting Artificial Intelligence to choose your HiFi system. Online shopping and drop shipping HiFi without hearing or seeing the product. Chinese audio brands are so dominant how do legacy HiFi brands compete? The loss of HiFi journalism. The revival of vintage and horn speakers. Examining the dramatic changes reshaping the HiFi industry in 2026 and into the future. Show Partner - March Audio

HiFi Show 2026 review - Best and Worst HiFi #65 Oct 19, 2026

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HiFi Show review - StereoNet Melbourne 2026. Two experienced HiFi listeners, two completely different opinions of the same high end rooms. Best sound, worst sound, surprise entries, brand reviews, full roundup of this very busy show. Show Partner - March Audio

PMC Designer Peter Thomas: Real Sound, HiFi, Pro Audio & the Music We Hear #64 Oct 06, 2026

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PMC co-founder and loudspeaker designer Peter Thomas on HiFi, loudspeaker design, professional audio and the pursuit of real sound. What makes a speaker sound accurate? Why are real drums and cymbals so difficult to reproduce? Why does PMC voice their home audio the same as their pro audio? Then we head inside the world of professional recording: Hollywood film scoring, Abbey Road and Capitol Studios, spatial audio, analogue tape versus digital, and what can be lost between the original recording and the music we finally hear at home. Along the way Peter shares remarkable encounters with Stevie Wonder and Elton John and draws on more than 35 years of PMC experience to explore one deceptively difficult question: how close can HiFi really get to the sound of the real thing? Show Partner - March Audio

HiFi Industry Unfiltered with SoundStage! Founder Doug Schneider #63 Sep 22, 2026

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Eavesdrop on an unfiltered HiFi industry conversation between Doug Schneider, founder of SoundStage! Global, and Andrew Hutchison of Not An Audiophile. Two experienced HiFi media personalities sit down for a candid, wide-ranging chat about audio equipment, music and the industry they love. This is not a formal interview built around one convenient topic. It's just Doug and Andrew, two longtime HiFi personalities forgetting the microphones and sharing honest opinions about HiFi products, brands, personalities and the business of better sound. Andrew and Doug agree - and disagree - on affordable equipment outperforming high end HiFi, genuine performance versus luxury audio and whether any amplifier can justify a $300,000 price. Measurements are good when taken in context of the product. Vinyl is great but Bluetooth turntables are bad. Struggling to introduce ordinary music lovers to better sound, the relevance of HiFi Shows and so, so much more! Show Partner - March Audio

Inside PS Audio with Paul McGowan: The Man Behind the brand #62 Sep 08, 2026

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A wide-ranging conversation with PS Audio's, Paul McGowan. Almost 50 years of HiFi, behind the scenes at PS Audio and Octave Records, the future of amplifier design, acoustics, subwoofer placement, and the magic of music. Show Partner - March Audio

Harbeth Audio bought a church. Behind the scenes of a quiet revolution #61 Aug 25, 2026

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Harbeth and Alan Shaw as the designer, have something bigger happening behind the scenes than just being famous for traditional BBC-inspired passive loudspeakers, Alan Shaw reveals why Harbeth invested £100,000 in laser vibration-scanning technology, bought a disused church, developed its active loudspeaker technology entirely in-house - and is preparing for projects that will reshape its next 50 years. This is not just an interview with the designer of Harbeth Audio. It is a rare look inside the research, technology and future planning behind one of HiFi’s most respected heritage brands. Show Partner - Devore Fidelity

Neutral Loudspeaker Design. Speakers with no sound of their own #60 Aug 11, 2026

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Neutrality is the goal, so these loudspeakers have no sound profile of their own. No timber cabinet - just high tech Phenolic Resin. Magnesium Graphene coated drivers and a focus on embracing new tech whilst maintaining a neutral and accurate sound. The revival of a brand, Lenehan Brothers are doing it differently. Show Partner - Devore Fidelity

Build an ICEpower Class D Amp from scratch & take on Class A and tubes #59 Jul 27, 2026

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An ambitious Class D Amp project! The new ICEpower Class D module inspired our host to design and build an amp project from scratch using ICEPower technology as the foundation. With input in our one-on-one interview with ICEpower, we hope to answer the age-old question "Can audiophiles REALLY hear the difference?" Show Partner - Devore Fidelity

People Aren't Buying HiFi Anymore #58 Jul 12, 2026

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People are buying moments. HiFi value is no longer in the brand, the price, or the sheer size of the system. Today, it's about deeper connections, more time, more life. Maybe the most important thing about HIFi isn't the hardware at all. Show Partner - Devore Fidelity

Is High End HiFi Worth It? Luxury Audio vs Real Sound Quality #57 Jun 29, 2026

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Is High End HiFi really worth the money? Or has luxury audio become more about prestige, exclusivity and price than genuine improvements in sound quality? If you've ever wondered - Is expensive HiFi worth it? - What is High-End Audio? - Best HiFi for the money? - Affordable HiFi vs High-End HiFi - Chinese HiFi (Chi-Fi) - Are HiFi reviews still relevant? ...this conversation is for you. Show Partner - Devore Fidelity

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