The HiFi Five Podcast
Welcome to The HiFi Five, a live roundtable discussion show about all things high-end audio plus music recommendations, produced twice per month --the second and the fourth Wednesday of every month.
The HiFi Five is hosted/moderated by Ron Resnick, co-owner of WhatsBestForum and audio reviewer.
Our other chairs will feature one-time guests and recurring guests.
This show is educational: explaining how to select components, how to build audio systems, how to treat rooms and how to help you achieve the greatest realism and emotional engagement from your audio system. This show also is a candid, freewheeling, behind-the-scenes look at the high-end audio hobby and industry, with reports from audio shows, and gives you insights, opinions and perspectives.
The HiFi Five Podcast
The Hi-Fi Five Episode 16: Guest Danny Richie, GR Research
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How have the scientific studies of hearing and audio at Bell Labs and at Harman impacted your work in audio?
Why has the industry not insisted that reviewers, manufacturers, influencers and marketers to publish their ear hearing measurements as evidence of credibility for their audio pronouncements?
Are there inherent sonic advantages to: dipole planar speakers, horn speakers, dynamic driver speakers?
If a box speaker, to port or not to port?
Do exotic materials for driver cones sound better than traditional paper cones?
Does the material used in the cabinet of the speaker -- wood, aluminum, carbon fiber, acrylic resin -- drive the resulting sound?