Ep. 71: “You Made Humor and I Didn’t Understand It”

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Although Brent and Dennis will probably never again work up the gumption to attend CES, they can muster the courage to read through others’ CES reports and weigh in with their own opinions. That’s this week’s first segment. Then they check out an article from Darko about age-related hearing loss and its relationship with audio copium, and think real hard about whether buying a $10,000 DAC is worth it if you can’t hear above 12 kHz. They then take a TAS hostage video hostage and use it as a jumping-off point for a deep dive into Class G and H amp topologies.

And for Patrons: What the heck is Snyderman’s Maxim? And would you want a million-dollar audio system if you could only use it to listen to “Hotel California”?

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Brent’s audio projects:
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💿 The Audiophile Society's Headphone Evaluation and Spatial Audio Test Album (engineered by Brent): https://theaudiophilesociety.com/coll...

💿 tics by Flip City, mixed by Brent
https://davidaaron4.bandcamp.com/albu...


Further Reading:
Can You Identify Famous Guitarists From A Single Note? by Rick Beato:    • Can You Identify Famous Guitarists From A ...  
CES 2026: With Onkyo, Premium Audio Co Proves It Can Walk & Chew Gum at the Same Time by Ted Gree: https://www.strata-gee.com/ces-2026-w...
Best of CES 2025: The Audio Gear That Matters by Adam Birney: https://www.soundguys.com/best-of-ces...
Eclipsa Audio on GitHub: https://github.com/google/eclipsa-aud...
Klipsch Demos New Powered Speakers, Shows Off High-End Concepts at CES 2026 by Jacob Green: https://www.audioholics.com/bookshelf...
The Best of CES 2026: The Products We Want to Get Our Hands On Most by Wirecutter Staff: https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/re...
The LG Sound Suite Soundbar changed the way I think about surround sound by Nick Pino: https://www.tomsguide.com/audio/speak...
How age-related hearing loss emboldens hi-fi cope by John Darko: https://darko.audio/2025/12/how-age-r...

Chapters:
00:00:00 Announcement
00:00:24 Introductions
00:07:48 Just a note…
00:10:55 CES roundup
00:32:23 “Little Carl” by Michael Gaughn
00:33:06 Come again?
00:45:19 “Nights of the Golden Circle” by Michael Gaughn
00:46:24 Blink twice if you know the difference between class G and H
01:06:09 Credits
01:08:33 Patreon pitch