We’re on Patreon now! Find us at https://www.patreon.com/AudioUnleashed This week, Brent and Dennis discuss the death of music hard drives (and the inevitable doom of all music recordings?); riff on a cut’n’paste review of a Coherence Systems… something or other, and worry whether a podcast they created about the Harman target curve using A.I. might actually be better than … well, not Audio Unleashed, of course, but much of what passes for audio journalism.

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Further Reading:

• “Music industry’s 1990s hard drives, like all HDDs, are dying” by Kevin Purdy:https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/09/music-industrys-1990s-hard-drives-like-all-hdds-are-dying/
• “New five pound note plays vinyl records” by Blowfelt: https://youtu.be/MtNXDTPBzB0?si=3nL6eNrKeVCbnE3X
• “Coherence Systems/ADD Powr Sorcer Apprentice Review” by Alan Sircom: https://hifiplus.com/articles/coherence-systems-add-powr-sorcer-apprentice/
• “Google is using AI to make fake podcasts from your notes” by Emma Roth: https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/11/24242138/google-notebook-llm-ai-fake-podcasts-research
• “Segmentation of Listeners Based on Their Preferred Headphone Sound Quality Profiles” by Olive, Sean; Welti, Todd; Khonsaripour, Omid: https://aes2.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=20289
• “We Used A.I. to Make a Fake Podcast About the Harman Target Curve for Headphones” by Audio Unleashed: https://youtu.be/H_rx7UMMYq4?si=tU_Wx4xPYi7PMol6