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Audio Unleashed

by Brent Butterworth & Dennis Burger

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“Thinking Like a Bayesian!”

October 14, 2026 · 1 hr 6 min

We’re on Patreon! Find us at https://www.patreon.com/AudioUnleashed This week, Dennis and Brent kick things off with a discussion of the audio technology our electeds are most familiar with—AM radio—before pivoting into a long diatribe…
“Velvet Noise?”

September 30, 2026 · 1 hr 9 min

We’re on Patreon! Find us at https://www.patreon.com/AudioUnleashed This week, Dennis and Brent get caught in the trap of being forced to discuss Apple’s big new thing—improved open-ear noise cancellation—and how it might compare to that…
“I Was Expecting Some Nina Totenberg”

September 16, 2026 · 1 hr 13 min

We’re on Patreon! Find us at https://www.patreon.com/AudioUnleashed This week, Dennis and Brent spend a lot of time and a lot of words riffing on the same fundamental theme: are we making this hi-fi stuff entirely too complicated? And if…
“I’m Going to Poop on This Amp”

September 2, 2026 · 1 hr 2 min

We’re on Patreon! Find us at https://www.patreon.com/AudioUnleashed This week, Dennis and Brent kick things off with a bit of a different segment: a deep dive into some of the wackier (and cooler) IEMs Brent has found on Facebook, and a…
“A Loom of Fuses”

August 19, 2026 · 1 hr 15 min

We’re on Patreon! Find us at https://www.patreon.com/AudioUnleashed This week, Dennis and Brent get the party started by pondering the deep question of whether or not a “loom” of anything is automatically sus. Next up, they split hairs…

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“They Had To Wear Pants At Some Point”

August 5, 2026 · 1 hr 2 min

We’re on Patreon! Find us at https://www.patreon.com/AudioUnleashed This week, Dennis and Brent dig deep into a Reddit post about soundbars to gain some insight into how A.I. is going to make sense of audiophiles in the future. (That’ll…
“I Want to Be Floyd When I Grow Up”

July 22, 2026 · 1 hr 21 min

We’re on Patreon! Find us at https://www.patreon.com/AudioUnleashed This week, Dennis and Brent kick things off with a response to a Patron who had some defensive words for OJAS, aka Devon Turnbull. Then they add their voices to the…
“The End of Legitimate Audio Journalism”

July 8, 2026 · 1 hr 15 min

We’re on Patreon! Find us at https://www.patreon.com/AudioUnleashed This week, Dennis and Brent take a surface-level dive into the biggest controversy to hit the pro-audio world this year: Jim Lill’s exhaustive investigation of the source…
“Effort is a Little Passé These Days”

June 24, 2026 · 59 min

We’re on Patreon! Find us at https://www.patreon.com/AudioUnleashed This week, Brent and Dennis dig into a review of Sonarworks’ SoundID Virtual Monitoring PRO system, which aims to go toe-to-toe with the Smyth Realiser for a tenth of the…
“We Need Some Plausible Deniability Here”

June 10, 2026 · 1 hr 17 min

This week, Brent and Dennis are just asking questions. Questions such as: Do VU meters really make everything sound better? (Obviously, yes.) Can you do science if you don’t even understand science? (Probably not on purpose!) If our music…
“There’s a Friggin’ Capybara!”

May 27, 2026 · 1 hr 1 min

We’re on Patreon! Find us at https://www.patreon.com/AudioUnleashed This week, Brent and Dennis kick things off by considering whether lack of cred is as big a problem with audio critics as it is for music critics, and debate whether or…
“Cone of Shame!”

May 13, 2026 · 1 hr 25 min

We’re on Patreon! Find us at https://www.patreon.com/AudioUnleashed This week, Brent and Dennis dig deep into the new “Meta” for in-ear monitors, which some say will replace all IEM target curves even though it’s not a target curve. Got…

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About the show

This is Audio Unleashed: the world’s only totally unfiltered, freewheeling, fearless discussion about the latest events in the world of audio, featuring veteran audio reviewers Brent Butterworth and Dennis Burger. With decades of experience, a modest grasp of science and logic, and a marginal degree of financial security, they can tell the good from the bad, and the proven from the preposterous — and they’re not afraid to tell you what’s what.