Following on from last week's podcast on alternative approaches to manufacturing for British HiFi companies, this week's takes the form of a generated debate about the merits of the two principal approaches as exemplified by IAG and Rega

This podcast examines whether British HiFi manufacturers need to outsource manufacturing to survive. It has been inspired by the challenges to free trade and global supply changes, which have been caused by the UK leaving the EU, closely followed by a global pandemic, and most recently geopolitical upheavals and the imposition of import tarffs by key countries

This bonus podcast is a generated discussion that took a rather unexpected turn, which I found interesting so we have published it as a bonus episode.

Charged with generating a debate about last week's podcast, the debate quickly moved to a rather more philosophical discussion about the nature of high-fidelity audio itself. Do we value the purest signal in terms of freedom from noise, or do we instead seek to create a 3-D sound picture, majoring on placement and position? The move from mono to stereo represented the first major development into spatial audio, but modern object-based immersive audio take this to a whole new level. Listen and enjoy!