3 Sad Bastards

Join the 3 Sad Bastards as they finish off Season 2 with a proscriptive perspective on the year that was (inside episode joke), and consider where to focus next.

If you're getting that itchy feeling of what's next in your audio journey, thinking of going up the hifi ladder, or considering a change of direction, you're not alone!

Wonders of wonders, somehow each of the Sad Bastards comes to the same conclusion on what Season 3 will be all about - listen in and get ready to be part of the next step of the journey.

HINT: Around 18:20 into the podcast.

After all the blood, sweat and tears of making a pair of DIY loudspeakers, the moment of truth is how they sound! But first you have to make sure they are not connected out of phase. The Sad Bastards find out if the pain was worth the gain, or the gain was worth the pain, and whether selling a top notch commercial loudspeaker before completing the DIY build results in a happy ending.

If you're thinking of taking the plunge and trying your hand at DIY loudspeakers, then listen along and find out how we think it worked out for SB1 (hint: F A N T A S T I C).

Special Guest Edition! The 3 Sad Bastards are joined by Roger Sanders from Sanders Audio Systems in this first ever episode where someone has been brave enough to come on and engage in witty, respectful and engaging repartee! As a completely unconstrained episode, the 3 Sad Bastards are schooled by one of the audio industry great thinkers and innovators - listen in as Roger articulates his philosophy on amplifiers, speakers and hifi in general!

Why are valves (vacuum tubes) still being used in hifi audio equipment? The 3 Sad Bastards decompose the arguments (and have a few of their own along the way) as to the intrinsic characteristics of valves and why valve audio equipment is seeing a resurgence in the market.

For anyone that's wondered what all the valve fuss is about, why some audiophiles prefer amplifiers that can triple up as incandescent bulbs, heaters or even toast your crumpet, join in and find a voice to vent your inner valve audio obsession.

Spoiler alert: The podcast ends with the conclusion that valves are clearly superior at toasting crumpets.

If there’s one aspect of audio hifi that divides the audio world it’s cables! If you believe that cables make a difference, are you a hifi wizard, or a cable clown?

Are speaker, interconnect, USB, Ethernet and power cables the hidden secret sauce to making a hifi system go to the next level or is it just a load of snake-oil that you rub on to alleviate the sting of how much you’ve spent?

Listen in as two of the Sad Bastards goad each other with their fact based approach (i.e. unsubstantiated ambit claims) and almost come to fisty-cuffs. In fact SB3 had to tie SB2 and SB1 virtually up with the (inferior) kettle-cord that came with his amplifier to keep the show moving along.