Ordinarily, I don’t get into podcasts. To me, the fundamental problem with podcasts is that listening to them is time spent not listening to music. Yes, some podcasts are music oriented and introduce new bands. Reality is still that time is a zero-sum game.
And now for the BUT…
I just discovered this podcast called Audio Matters which is a new series produced by Harman. I listened to the first episode. They brought in some experts and researchers from the music and audio industries and discussed some interesting topics:
Some of the topics on that first episode include the different experiences of speakers and headphones, the connections between music and emotion, that humans do recognize high quality music reproduction…eventually, that bass quantity and quality is the biggest single predictor of emotional engagement with music, and several other things.
I may or may not continue with this podcast. The first episode has the requisite level of nerd for me to give subsequent episodes a chance, but for me that barrier of time spent listening to podcasts taking time away from listening to music is a big one. Some of you may fall in love with it though. I may still.