Not An Audiophile
Explore HiFi from behind the scenes featuring interviews with designers, engineers and experts discussing speakers, amps, turntables, cables and more. HiFi pros talk design, get technical, offer opinions, provide news, reviews, and insights. Bringing the best and brightest from brands and shows around the world.
- Update frequency
- every 10 days
- Average duration
- 79 minutes
- Episodes
- 37
- Years Active
- 2024 - 2025
S02 EP037 HIFi Show. Stereonet Melbourne 2025. Good, bad and just plain terrible sound. Which big brand got it wrong?
HiFi Show expose. No holding back from our golden eared hosts rounding up the Stereonet HiFi & AV Show Melbourne 2025
Who got it right and who got it terribly wrong? Surprising new brands, new models…
00:58:43 |
Mon 08 Sep 2025
S02 EP036 HiFi reviewer StereoNet, Global Editor-in-Chief, David Price. Executioner diplomat audiophile. The power and passions of the man behind the words.
Inside the life of an international HiFi reviewer who wields his power like a conductor leading a symphony. His favourite HiFi, love of classic cars and belief that reviews should not be verdicts for…
01:59:47 |
Tue 26 Aug 2025
S02 EP035 HiFi review - NEW WiiM Amp Ultra AND meet a rare young HiFi retailer who says that tradition and experience is "tired".
Reviewing the exciting new release from WiiM - the WiiM Amp Ultra. Our two HiFi professionals discuss in Part 1 and go in depth in Part 2 the good and bad of the new WiiM. ALSO HiFi retailing is do…
00:42:46 |
Tue 19 Aug 2025
S02 EP034 How to buy a HiFi system inc Top 10 things everyone should know about Turntables
Preconceptions, misconceptions and misinformation - Are you hearing the system or the opinions or others? Is too much information ruining your HiFi experience? ALSO our HiFi professionals talk turnta…
01:14:29 |
Tue 05 Aug 2025
S02 EP033 HiFi art - where sound & sculpture collide.Futuristic, imaginative, fanciful and musical. Metaxas & Sins.
Kostas Metaxas designs luxury collections of high end HiFi. Every item in the collection is HiFi Art - totally and utterly unique, organic and outrageously interesting. -"Otherwise they have no reaso…
02:00:32 |
Tue 22 Jul 2025
S02 EP032 Uncommon HiFi design philosophies. 47 years of innovations with VAF Research.
Parliament House, The Adelaide Festival Centre and New York's largest church. Where sound perfection is required, VAF has always been there. The evolution of uncommon sound, past, present and future…
01:16:02 |
Tue 08 Jul 2025
S02 EP031 Peter Comeau designer of Wharfedale reveals new model projects. Speaker design, acoustics, balance and the beauty of musicality.
Wharfedale, Castle & Mission. Audiophiles diagnosed and room acoustics dissected. The meaning and importance of balance in loudspeaker design. Opinions on horn loaded, tubes and why price has nothing…
01:13:56 |
Tue 24 Jun 2025
S02 EP030 HiFi innovation. Three unique and innovative concepts.
Vinyl restoration technology and two outrageous speaker designs.
Sponsored By Harbottle Audio
01:16:42 |
Tue 10 Jun 2025
S02 EP029 Laurence Dickie at Munich High End. Full interview and 2025 roundup.
Laurence Dickie, interviewed at Munich High End 2025 goes deep into loudspeaker design and sets Not An Audiophile host straight on some audio assumptions. Laurence Dickie is best known as the design…
00:52:06 |
Tue 27 May 2025
S02 EP028 World's best HiFi brands - One on One interviews.
Bowers & Wilkins; Focal; Sonus Faber; McIntosh; Denon; Marantz; Piega; Audio Research; March Audio; Naim and more. New products, models and behind the concepts.
Sponsored By Harbottle Audio
02:29:59 |
Mon 12 May 2025
S02 EP027 HiFi Myths Busted! 5 myths "blown up" with actual facts.
From the infamous "recap everything" advice to the idea that streaming robs musicians, we cut through the noise with first-hand experience, facts and a healthy dose of skepticism.
Sponsored By …
00:54:34 |
Mon 05 May 2025
S02 EP026 HIFI Retail Evolution.
Does HiFi gear really sound better than it ever did? What's changed and what does the future of HiFi look like? The evolution of HiFi over 47 years of Len Wallis Audio.
Sponsored By Stereonet
01:13:28 |
Tue 22 Apr 2025
S02 EP025 HiFi Show Roundup Sydney 2025.
Richter, Dohmann, Musical Fidelity, Air Tight Tube amps, Fischer & Fischer slate speakers, Microphase and more...
Sponsored By SpectraFlora
01:10:42 |
Tue 08 Apr 2025
S02 EP024 HiFi reviews with Soundstage Aust and Edgar Kramer. Behind the man with his finger on the pulse of HiFi.
The highly-qualified and experienced ear behind the Soundstage Australia HiFi reviews has been everywhere, listened to everything and met every big name in HiFi.
Sponsored By SpectraFlora
01:40:03 |
Tue 25 Mar 2025
S02 EP023 One simple step to speaker and room correction with DEQX designer, Kim Ryrie.
Improve speaker and room acoustics with one simple step. Ground-breaking technology in the DEQX processor allows passive speakers to become active and diagnoses and improves inherent sound issues wit…
01:07:52 |
Tue 11 Mar 2025
S02 EP022 Turntables and vinyl sound quality with Mark Dohmann of Dohmann Audio. All your questions answered.
Cartridge compliance, tracking force and tonearm alignment - why they are so important. The top 5 points affecting turntable sound Best turntable, tonearm and cartridge combos. Platter mat considera…
02:00:01 |
Tue 25 Feb 2025
S02 EP021 Music: 5 best music tracks. 2 HiFi professionals and 1 opinion party.
What constitutes good music? 5 tracks/albums that you should know to test your speakers, hold an educated conversation about music and to just plain feel alive! Two HiFi professionals with polar opp…
01:09:25 |
Tue 11 Feb 2025
S02 EP020 Subwoofers - Inside the "no compromise" design, engineering and attitude of Harbottle Audio.
Subwoofers by Harbottle Audio, Canada. Sit down with the designer for the world's best tech talk on every aspect of producing the greatest subwoofers ever.
01:37:03 |
Tue 28 Jan 2025
S02 EP019 Fairlight Synthesizer, music making, two Australians and a barking dog
The Fairlight CMI changed music making forever. The "world's greatest synthesizer" offered a never-before-imagined conduit between technology and creativity. Co-founder, Kim Ryrie made it all possib…
01:02:34 |
Tue 14 Jan 2025
S01 EP018 2024 HiFi News wrap up. VOTED best sound. Over and under-exposed HiFi brands. Saddest HiFi story this year.
KEF, Monitor Audio, WiiM are just a few HiFi brands you constantly hear about in reviews and news. Our experts list their under-exposed brands that are as good or better. Our hosts voted best sound …
01:05:59 |
Thu 26 Dec 2024
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