SoundGuys Podcast

When shopping for a nice set of headphones for yourself or someone on your holiday list, you might run into codecs, and you might not be sure what to do with them. What are they? Do they matter? Help us SoundGuys! Fortunately, we’re here to do just that. Including a special appearance by Gary Sims, we break it all down for you.

Three tales that will surprise and shock you. These spooky audio myths come straight from the cult of audiophilia, and we’re here to help you sort through fact and fiction. Are Monster cables any better than coat hanger wire soldered together? What is jitter? And how far does one need to go to break in those headphones and get them just right? These scary (read: not scary) tales are served up with a healthy dose of fact in the SoundGuys Podcast.

You might be surprised to find out that before we had fiber optic cables linking the world, we had to reply on other means of communication. Those older means almost always involved sound. You know about the dots and dashes of the telegraph, and the screeching handshake of the modem. But did you know computer geeks in the 80’s used to transmit video games over FM radio? We have that and a few more surprises along the way in this episode of the SoundGuys podcast!

If you do a Google search for “Is Bluetooth Dangerous?” you are met with page after page of disinformation about the supposed dangers of Bluetooth radiation, and non-ionizing radio frequency radiation. This is part of a campaign by a few organizations to capitalize on your fear, and sell you some worthless trinkets on the side. This is a two-part crossover with our friends Jonathan Feist and Joe Hindy at the Android Authority podcast. Part 2 is on Android Authority's feed. Check it out!

Drones are becoming more common in today’s society. Consumer products can be seen zipping around our parks. Commercial applications range from civil engineering projects to search and rescue. Drones are enhancing our society every day - at least our human society. Drones are aptly named since they cause an unmistakable and constant noise that affects creatures great and small. Join the SoundGuys and guests as we explore just what this new innovation might be doing to those who can’t tell us if it hur

Whether you realize it or not, you deal with technology based on sound every day. Home-roasting coffee requires sound cues from the roasting beans. Sound waves can make objects levitate. Sound can be used to sterilize your fruit juice. Ultrasounds are used in many applications of healthcare. There's an awesome and ridiculous piece of sound tech designed to shag away teenagers - no kidding. Sound can also affect your buying habits.

What led us to relying on USB Type-C connectors for audio? Why don’t they work very well or at all? The SoundGuys break down the loss of the headphone jack, and the difficulties surrounding USB-C audio with the help of Robert Triggs of Android Authority. Why is this universal standard not universally standard? It turns out, there are a lot of reasons and we break them all down for you on our fourth episode of the SoundGuys podcast. Full transcript available at http://www.soundguys.com/podcast

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