The Hifi Podcast with Darren and Duncan

Horn mouth diffraction, cardioid bass, high Q drivers, acoustic filters, constant directivity and line arrays. This is the world of loudspeakers from the perspective of someone who designs them, and in this week’s episode Darren and Duncan sit down with an expert who does exactly that, to chat about the devices which make the music we love so much.

Speaker design engineer Chris Brunhaver brings a lifetime of experience and diverse influences to the discussion, and the guys flesh out this all-important audiophile topic over local beers as the fire glows and the snow falls outside.

Part I of this speaker series focuses on non-traditional, interesting approaches to making sound, why it’s done and how some of these things are made. From open baffle science to new patents in horn design to 6-foot-long ribbons and dipole characteristics, this week’s episode of The Hifi Podcast is sure to offer something you haven’t heard before.

Listener questions about power cable priority and streaming options are answered as well, and at the end, an absolute stomper of a new album is revealed as the album pick of the week.