Smalls
Roboto
Preserving
Rock Room
Shred Shed
Spirit
Cobra
Brillibox
Thunderbird
Govt Center
Cattivo
Bottlerocket

Ticketmaster enforces exclusive contracts with venues and artists, meaning artists have to book a whole tour via TM to play a TM venue, or venues need to move to TM to book TM tours.

That kind of monopoly is extremely resistant to anything but antitrust action.

That distortion is why many studio engineers still record digitally at 44.1kHz, meaning that many high resolution audio files and vinyl records are actually up-sampling recordings that do not contain the high frequency data that those formats are meant to capture.

4/4

Plenty of reputable audio engineers also find that higher-than-audible frequencies might introduce distortion in recordings

www.headphonesty.com/2025/05/192k...

3/4

A meta-analysis found that even among trained listeners, the ability to discern the difference between CD audio, and audio in that range is barely better than chance.

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

2/4

I was disappointed that this episode didn't really question whether high resolution audio is actually detectable. Most papers agree, the additional audio information added by the pono isn't audible.

1/4

I'm ready for Kevin Rouse's NYT story after OpenAI collapses the NASDAQ "How did AI companies fool America?"