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Micro Four Thirds Photography in 2021

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Tony: Hello and welcome to the three techs. I’m your host, Tony Tang. And tonight I’m joined by the other two techs. Bob Fairburn. Hey Bob 

Bob: Good evening.

Tony: and Steven Branson. Hey Steven. 

Steven: Hi, dad.

Tony: Tonight, we’re going to talk about micro four thirds photography and whether or not it makes sense to keep buying or. Investing in micro four thirds in 2021, all three of us have some form of micro four thirds cameras.

Tony: I personally own a Panasonic GH-4 and a GH-5, which I actually use more for video shooting rather than still photos. Bob, I know you own some Steven. You own some as well. Bob, what cameras do you own that are micro four thirds. 

Bob: Primary ones EM-1 mk II and an EM-5 mk II is the second one. And I have a couple of the originally EM-1s, which I don’t use very often, but they’re still very functional. Good cameras. 

Tony: And those are Olympus. 

Bob: All Olympus. Yes, sir.

Tony: How about you, Steven? What? Micro four thirds cameras do you own? 

Steven: so I’m all Panasonic and there’s cameras I haven’t u sed for a long time, they’re just pensioned off. So GH-2s, GH-3s use a GM-5, the tiny little ones, and then a mix of GH-4s and GH-5s. Sometimes they use the -4 because it’s lighter. Sometime use sometimes I use the GH-5. 

Tony: What I’d like to ask you guys today is. Would you still invest in micro four thirds if you were just starting off right now in 2021, given what we know about what’s happened in the industry, and maybe we can give a little background on that. And then would you consider other options besides micro four thirds?

Steven: The big thing was maybe it’s a year ago. Now that Olympus one of the two key partners for sure are Olympus and Panasonic. So Olympus announced they were getting rid of their still camera business. So the company itself is still going. There are other types of products they’re still making, but their cameras they seeded to a company called OM Digital.

Steven: But the interesting thing is, you could still buy Olympus cameras. And O M digital have not yet announced a product but you could still buy all of the Olympus camera and lens range. 

Tony: Okay. So nothing has really changed from a consumer perspective. You can still access and buy all the cameras, but there’s just been a change of hands as far as who owns the Olympus, still photography camera business. 

Steven: And I think you know, the other thing to note is that, you know, Panasonic announced a full frame. Line and they’ve released a number of full frame cameras. And what’s been missing with a couple of exceptions is new micro four thirds cameras. Panasonic they’ve released the GH-5 mark II which is a very minor update.

Steven: To the GH-5 and everybody’s waiting for an expected announcement of a GH-6, but really there’s been no impacting new camera appeared yet in micro four thirds.

Tony: Right. And maybe we should back up just a little bit and talk about micro four thirds in general and what it is and why both of you have chosen to use it. Bob, would you like to give your, take on it on micro four thirds.

Photography with Superzoom Cameras in 2021

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Tony: Hello and welcome to The Three Techs. I’m your host, Tony Tang. And I’m joined by the other two techs. Bob Fairbairn. Hey Bob 

Bob: Good evening.

Tony: and Steven Branson. Hey, Steven

Steven: hi there.

Tony: Tonight, we’re going to talk about cameras and specifically, we’re going to talk about a category of cameras. I think a lot of people don’t know about maybe have never heard of, or have never considered buying.

Tony: Now, there are cameras out there that are pocket cameras that fit in your pocket. Those are getting less and less popular because a lot of people just use their smartphone for photography these days. But then there are the interchangeable lens camera systems, the mirrorless systems, the DSLRs that let you choose the lens that you like, and you can have multiple lenses and change them.

Tony: As you want, but then there’s this category that kind of fits in between and some call it bridge cameras. And sometimes they’re called super zooms. Now, super zooms are interesting in that they usually have a zoom range that you cannot get with any other type of camera system. And the lenses are. fixed.

Tony: So you can’t change them like an interchangeable camera system. Now Bob and Steven, both of you own super zoom cameras. Is that right?

Bob: Yes, I do.

Tony: Yeah. So Bob tell. Okay, good. So Bob, tell me a little bit about your super zoom camera when you got it, which one you got.

Bob: All it’s been just a couple of months and I haven’t hardly used it at all. I’m just getting warmed up to it. I’ve been pretty busy. So it’s the Sony RX 10 IV which is a 24 millimeter to 600 equivalent, a one inch sensor single SD card. Both types. Autofocus. Contrast and phase detect really fast does not have a flippy screen, you know, that flips around.

Bob: I really miss that I could hide the screen. The electronic viewfinders really good. Overall I’m, I’m liking a lot and I’m getting some really nice photographs, but I’ve shot with several Sony cameras and I’m still getting used to the menu. It’s been a little bit of a challenge for me to remember it.

Tony: Yeah, that’s Sony RX 10 mark IV looks like a really interesting camera there. If that 24 to 600 millimeter equivalent focal range, that’s a 25 times optical zoom. So that is huge. You cannot find that in , four thirds APS-C or full frame. And not in pocket cameras. So that makes it pretty unique and pretty versatile because you get that wide angle and also extreme telephoto.

Bob: It’s a little bigger and a little heavier than some other cameras, but I’ve been carrying around a larger micro four thirds camera lot. So it doesn’t really feel much different to me. It balances out pretty well. And I’m getting used to it.

Tony: What compelled you to consider this camera?

Bob: Simplify, simplify, simplify. I don’t have to change lenses. I’m actually using three Sony cameras, so I have an rX 100. And the , uh, ZV-1, which we use for video recording and stuff like that. The RX 100 is just marvelous you take it wherever you want to go, but he doesn’t reach out long enough.

Bob: It doesn’t go far enough.

Listening to Music and Playback Sources in 2021

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Tony: Hello and welcome to The Three Techs. I’m your host, Tony Tang. And I’m joined by the other two texts this evening. Bob Fairbairn. Hey 

Tony: Bob 

Bob: Good evening.

Tony: and Steven Bramson. Hey, Steven. 

Steven: Okay. 

Tony: Tonight, we are going to continue our conversation on listening to music and we’ve covered a few different topics already. In this series, we talked about streaming services.

Tony: We talked about headphones and earbuds. We talked about small desktop speakers. And in our last episode, we talked about larger floor standing speakers tonight. I thought we would talk about playback source. How you play back music, whether that be from a computer, a TV, a portable device, CD player, any, and all of those things and listen to music.

Tony: first of all, let’s just start with talking about how each one of us listens to music and what sort of playback systems we have. Steven, would you like to start us off? 

Steven: Sure. So the basic source I use is CDs. So I, if I have something I like, then I’ll buy the CD. Or if I see something that intrigues me, then I’ll buy the CD. And then as a refinement of I’ll rip the CD to an SSD and then I can listen to that from my computer while I’m working.

Tony: And just so we cover this, you still buy CDs to acquire music as opposed to other methods like streaming. Can you talk a little bit about that and why you choose to still buy CDs in 2020? Yeah. 

Steven: Yeah. So I’ll buy the CD, I guess, for a few reasons. So one is so that I own the music and it doesn’t disappear. I’ve always got it. And then that seems to be a search for how to get to CD quality music on streaming services. But because I own the CD, I’ve got CD quality. 

Tony: Okay. I haven’t bought a CD in a while, but how many CDs would you say you buy in a year? 

Steven: Oh, I’ve been buying a reasonable number recently, maybe one or two a month. 

Tony: Okay. That’s a pretty good pace there. So you have CDs and a CD player, and you have that hooked up to a pair of speakers. 

Steven: Oh, I’m more likely to hear the ripped version from my computer. These days 

Steven: most likely, 

Tony: And what format are you ripping them in? 

Steven: I used to use an uncompressed audio file format that I can’t remember the name of it which offered compression options. And I chose the no compression option, but then for slightly odd reasons, I’ve decided to just go with regular 16 bit uncompressed YF. Cause it’s the lowest common denominator and SSDs these days are becoming pretty inexpensive.

Steven: So you can get couple of terabytes for a few hundred dollars and you might as well just put music on an SSD and might as well just have the full quality. 

Tony: Right. Cool. Well, Bob, let’s talk about you. What do you use to acquire music and also, how do you listen to that music? 

Bob: Acquisition is a little bit more complicated than Steven, but I’m a big fan of. Owning a physical copy of the media. I typically like to acquire CDs.

Listening to Music with Big Floor Standing Speakers in 2021

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Tony: hello.

Tony: and welcome to another episode of The Three Techs. I’m your host, Tony Tang. And tonight we are joined by the other two texts. Bob Fairbairn. And Hey Bob

Bob: Hello.

Tony: and Steven Bramson. Hey Steven. 

Steven: Yeah.

Tony: Recently, we’ve been talking about listening to music and we cover. Streaming services. We talked about headphones and earbuds.

Tony: Our last show was about desktop and bookshelf size speakers. And today I thought we’d go a little bigger and we talk about large speakers, floor standing speakers. Why would you want to get bigger speakers and what you should consider when you’re looking at them? So, What do you think, gentlemen, large speakers.

Tony: Do any of you own large format speakers. 

Steven: Yep. So I have a slightly unusual setup. I am not using speakers per se. I’m using amplifier speakers. They are from Roland who are well known for their electronic musical instruments. And they are KC 500 keyboard amplifiers. 

Tony: Okay, so amplifier and speakers built into one. You plug your keyboard into it And you can perform and play it. 

Steven: Right. Or you can plug a CD player into it and you get wonderful sound. And I have two of them for left and right. And they’re physically pretty big. 

Tony: How big would you say are the cabinet size and do you know the size of the Wolfers? 

Steven: Yeah, the Wolf is very big. 15 inch, 

Tony: Wow. 

Steven: And the cabinet is about a two foot cube. 

Tony: Okay. And does it just have one Wolfer in it or is there a smaller tweeter horn.

Steven: Yes, there’s a 15 inch woofer and a horn tweeter. And the rated power output is 150 Watts. 

Tony: What about SPL? Does it say anything about that? 

Steven: Hang on. That was my search page saying no, there’s no mention of SPL.

Tony: Okay.

Bob: Steven, is it a single amplifier and an a crossover or is it multiple amplifiers? Do you know?

Steven: I don’t know. 

Tony: It’s an interesting question because some speakers have separate amplifiers for Each driver. in the speaker.

Steven: Yeah, I’m guessing it’s just one big amp.

Tony: Okay. 

Bob: That’s what I would guess is that one tubers it’s solid.

Steven: I’m pretty sure it’s solid state. Not too. 

Tony: Yeah, 

Steven: If it was to be, I would say two or tube.

Bob: well, because, because a lot of instrument amplifiers are tube amplifiers

Tony: Like guitar 

Steven: true. Traditionally. Yes.

Steven: That’s true. Yes. Yes. So a two foot cube with a big plastic grill on the front. So you can kick it without causing damage. 

Tony: Right. Protecting the drivers in the front. Cause especially if you’re performing onstage...

Listening to Music with Desktop Speakers in 2021

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Tony: Hello and welcome to another episode of The Three Techs. I’m your host, Tony Tang. And I’m joined by Bob Fairbairn tonight. One of the other Three Techs. Hey Bob, how’s it going? 

Bob: Just fine, Tony. Good evening. How are you today?

Tony: doing well. Stephen’s not able to join us tonight, but we will catch up with him on another day. Today, we are going to continue our discussion about listening to music.

This series that we’re doing, we talked about just listening to music, using streaming services in one show. Then we talked about listening to music, using your headphones and earbuds and how to choose headphones and earbuds and what the differences are with the various designs. And tonight, I thought we would talk about listening to music, using speakers. 

Bob: Ah,

Tony: And I think you could go crazy with speakers. The sky’s really the limit, but I think for tonight’s discussion, maybe we should limit our discussion to smaller desktop speakers, something that is a little bit more practical and accessible to a wide your audience. 

Bob: Yeah, I think that’s good. And the big thing, I think people are doing these days. Trying to crunch too much time at the desk. And I don’t have time to listen to music and maybe we get some good speakers on the desk for their computer and they’ll get to listen to some more music and relax a little more.

Tony: Yeah.

it’s a nice thing to be able to relax when you’re at your desk and get a little break from, from work. Okay. Let’s talk about speakers and what people can consider when they’re looking at desktop speakers. Now, typically I think they would probably be connecting them to a computer. Maybe an external player, like their phone or smartphone or something like that. 

So given that scenario, what sort of speakers have you been looking at? Or have you tried. 

Bob: Well I have almost always used what’s called an active speaker, but before we talk about that, let’s talk about what you go to the big box store and buy. And so there’s typically on a phone, there used to be a, and on most laptops, there still is. Three and a half millimeter audio, Jack, that you can plug something in and then you get, you know, $15 or $25 worth of speakers.

And they plug into the wall and they make noise. 

Tony: They make, a sound,

Bob: They make, sounds sounds will come out of them, 

Tony: Right. 

Bob: their ability to reproduce. Quality sound or their ability to reproduce music is less than stellar, but it’s a start it’s better than many of the speakers in laptops. Laptops are notorious for bad sound. Some monitors have speakers. Most of those are . Okay. Some people have all-in-one computers where the speakers are in. Some of those are actually pretty good. So it varies. but most of the time I really feel if you’re going to listen to music, you want to have a pair of speakers that give you good sound and you don’t have to a big budget to do that. You’re not buying a car here. You’re buying desktop speakers, so,

Tony: Right. So let’s define what we mean by good sound. To me, it means that I can hear the sound clearly.

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Tony: Hello, welcome to The Three Techs. I’m your host, Tony Tang tonight. I’m joined by the other two Techs. Bob Fairburn. Hey Bob 

Bob: evening. 

Tony: and Steven Bramson , hey Steven!.

Steven: Hi there.. 

Tony: Now last time we did a show about listening to music and it was just kind of a broad overview about how we listen to music these days through streaming how you might get started listening to music.

We’d like to dive deeper on that topic and talk about listening to music through headphones and earbuds. So I thought that that is probably what most people listen to music through. Especially if you are in a shared space, maybe at home, you don’t want to disturb other people. If you’re in the office, if you’re commuting on the train or a bus or anything like that, you’re most likely listening to music through headphones.

 Bob, as far as listening to music through headphones, What do you have and what do you prefer? 

Bob: You mean versus speakers or just the different kinds of headphones. 

Tony: Well, I mean, maybe we can talk about that to start with versus speakers. Right? What is the main difference? Listening through headphones and earbuds versus listening through speakers.

Bob: In my opinion, typically the speakers. you get more, you get more feeling of placement of, of the , the how things kind of go together. You know what I mean? So that, that sort of that, that’s where that’s where I see the, the bigger difference. 

Tony: Because the sound is actually coming from, in front of you from the pair of speakers. 

And actually the room becomes part of the listening experience because the sound is bouncing off the ceiling, the walls 

and the floor and everything. 

Bob: Yeah. It’s like, well, that’s like, what I like to say is the elephant in the room is the room. 

Tony: Right? Yeah. The room becomes part of the listening experience. So. 

Bob: amazing. Yes. 

Tony: And then listening through headphones though, everything is, I would say a lot more intimate, a lot more closed. Depending on the type of headphones you’re using, because literally the 

speakers are drivers are inches from your ear, or sometimes 

they’re even inside your ear. 

Bob: Yes. Yeah. Big difference, big difference. So like right now I’m using in ear monitors for this just because of one, when we’re doing video, I can hide the cables. It doesn’t look as it doesn’t look as geeky, I guess. So. 

Tony: Yeah, on camera using earbuds… it definitely is a little bit more low profile. 

Bob: yeah, yeah. 

Tony: So when it comes to listening to music, though how would you say, the experience is on headphones and earbuds then compared to speakers. 

Bob: It depends on what you’re used to, but I absolutely love listening to music on headphones because it’s so mobile so I can take any one of the devices I have around me. So my cell phone with Either wired or wireless headphones, or if I want to step things up, I can carry some extra equipment around it and hav...

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Hello, and welcome to the three techs. I’m your host, Tony Tang. And I’m joined by the other two techs tonight. Bob Fairburn. Hey Bob and Steven Branson. Hey Steven, Bob recently, I was exploring some different music streaming services and specifically high definition streaming services. And I wanted to compare what the difference was, whether or not I could hear the difference of high definition versus regular streaming.

Tony Tang: And it brought up a bigger question in my mind, which is how are people listening to music these days? And how does that differ from say before? And. Are most people missing a lot of stuff in the way that they’re listening to music and consuming it, like through standard streaming services and just through headphones or Bluetooth speakers and not having that traditional Hi-Fi setup.

Cause it seems like that’s kind of died, you know, in the recent decades with MP3s and streaming and all that kind of stuff. So I know you’re really into high fidelity music. And so I thought maybe we could talk about that tonight and get your thoughts on that. So what do you think in general though, like with how people are consuming and listening to music today, what do you think about that?

Bob: Well, the first thing is I’m really glad that people are still listening to music because I feel it’s really important, but I’m, I’m re also saddened by the fact that they, they don’t get the experience of good live concerts. They don’t get the experience of what a home sound system can deliver in emotion and feeling.

And all of the wonderful sounds that are recorded in say a classical recording or a, or a live concert or whatever it happens to be. So they’re, they’re missing so much, but without the experience, number one, they don’t know it. And number two, they don’t have the desire because they haven’t had the experience to go try and improve that.

And that kind of saddens me.

Tony Tang: Yeah, I think that a lot of people, they probably don’t know what they’re missing. Right in the recorded material and how good the music can actually sound when you hear the uncompressed version of it on a really good playback system.

Bob: that’s, that’s part of it, but they also, I don’t think they have the understanding of what good. They don’t have an understanding of what the difference is to know that they’re missing that experience. And we kind of hide that away in the simplicity of a smart speaker or Bluetooth head phones or whatever, listening out of the little tiny speaker in the bottom of your cell phone or the tinny speakers in a laptop, that kind of stuff.

People just don’t know what they’re missing.

Tony Tang: Yeah. And Stephen, I want to get your perspective on this because I think maybe of the three of us, maybe you’re not as much invested into, you know, high fidelity music playback. Can you tell us a bit about how you listen to your music?

Steven: Yeah, I mean, it’s, it’s varied over time. I think I’m more interested in the, in the performance than in the fidelity of the playback. So it depends on the circumstances. So I used to have a. A nice setup with just a modestly priced CD player. And I would play CDs on that. And they went into a pack of Roland speaker amplifiers, which were just astonishingly wonderful.

When I bought them, they just knocked my socks off,

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Steven:  Hello, and welcome to The Three Techs. I’m Steven Branson and I’m with my co-hosts Bob fare, Ben and Tony Tang

Bob: Good

Tony: Hey, Steven.

Steven: So I happen to be one of those rare people who do not use a smartphone day-to-day and I stick by my choice. For sure. And I thought I would go through my reasons for not using a smartphone. And so bothered toady. Haven’t heard these yet. So you’re getting a life, life reaction to my reasons for not using a smartphone.

Tony: and Steven, when you say you’ve never used a smartphone, I mean, you’ve touched a smartphone before, right. And have, but you’ve never just used it for work or personal

Steven: Right, right. 

Tony: And this is by the way, recorded December, 2020. So the smartphone has existed for over a decade. And Steven has not yet adopted one for daily use.

Steven: a slow adopter on CDs as well.

Tony: What are those? Steven

Bob: Oh,

Tony: said another streaming

Bob: discs, rafter. We’re talking about.

Steven: Yeah

Tony: Yeah. How about videos,

Steven: Well, I, I never, I never invest.

Tony: or beta?

Steven: I never invested in VHS.

Tony: Well, are you going to adopt that soon or,

Steven: no. I, I went straight from nothing to DVD.

Tony: Okay. A Blu-ray just curious.

Bob: wait a minute. UHD or just Blu-ray ultra high Def. Come

Steven: just playing at the moment.

Bob: Ah, okay, so you, you, you ain’t ultra yet. Okay.

Tony: Okay. So while, while the rest of the modern world, and maybe even third world countries have adopted smartphones, Steven has not yet adopted a smartphone in 2020. So Steven, why the heck haven’t you adopted a smartphone yet? And what are you using by the way as your phone, you have a

Steven: I do have a phone.

Tony: A mobile.

Steven: we don’t recording video, but I’m just holding it up to my camera. It’s a, it’s a flip phone. So I used to use of course a Motorola flip phone, but these days it’s a Kaia Sera flip phone, that uses Verizon.

So in, in my work office, we have Verizon boosters on our tool floor in Chicago. And so I had to get a Verizon phone and this one is a very rugged 

Tony: and it’s,  got a T nine key pad. If people don’t know what that is, that means it’s got numbers. One, two, three, you know, all the way through one through zero and a star button and a pound button. So. If you text Steven, you may not get a reply for a day or two, right. Because it’s,

Steven: It takes so long. This is true.

Tony: It will just call you because texting is too much effort.

So do you, do you text on that phone, Steven, by the way?

Steven: rarely.

Tony: Okay,

Bob: We wonder why we don’t have to wonder why.

Tony: Does that camera, or does that phone have a camera in it?

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EPISODE 29

The Buchardt A500 is a nicely sized self-powered bookshelf speaker from Denmark. Join The Three Techs as we take a first look at this new system.

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Bob: Hello, and welcome to another episode of The Three Techs. I’m testing some new speakers here in the house from a company called Buchardt Audio out of Denmark. And these are their A500 active speakers.

Steven: how did you find out about them? 

Bob: So company that I’ve been watching for about a year and a half now, they announced these early in 2020 for summer availability and they just got them released in mid August. 

Steven: And what kind of price range? 

Bob: They’re just under $5,000. Obviously it’s a bookshelf speaker. It’s small, it has three drivers.

It has a Twitter and a woofer out the front. And then a second Wolfer out the back and all three of the drivers have their own. 150 watt class D amplifier. And they’re all sealed in separate chambers inside of the speaker cabinet. So they’re completely isolated from one another and also inside of the system, of course of the amplifiers.

Yeah. And two digital signal processors that do all of the electronic crossover and all the other processing the speakers need to do, uh, to present sound 

Steven: the advantage of a class D amplifier. 

Bob: The major advantage of a class D amplifier is power consumption for power output. So they do a really good job of producing a large amount of power with physically smaller components.

Yeah. They have some disadvantages because they use switching supplies or there is actually switching voltages inside of them. So sometimes some of the older ones actually cause noise in the system, the modern ones don’t have that problem anymore. There’s people that don’t like class D amplifiers just in general, but I don’t think you’d find any problems with these, 

Steven: that 

Tony: these speakers are in a totally different price range than the key threes that we looked at previously.

Bob: Yes, they are. 

Tony: It sounds like you’re almost downgrading from the  to these speakers, 

Bob: trying to simplify the whole system and, and bring it down to be a little bit more realistic. The key  we’re here for business reasons, and I need something that’s simpler and a little bit smaller. Got it. There are a few unique items about the eight five hundreds, the first item.

EPISODE 28

In this conclusion to our previous show with 10 Mystery Microphones, Tony left Bob and Steven guessing which microphone he was using during the show. In this episode Tony reveals the mystery microphone.

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Tony: Hello, and welcome to the three techs. Last show. We did a blind listening test of 10 different microphones. I kept Bob and Steven here hanging on which microphone I was actually using here for that show. I didn’t reveal it. So in this show, We’re going to talk about the microphones we listened to last time and reveal what microphone I used.

if you haven’t listened to the blind listening test in the last show, and you want to stop here, don’t watch the rest of the show. Cause you’re going to get some spoilers. So go ahead, click the link and watch our previous show and then come back here and we’ll talk about those mikes and more. Okay. It’s been a couple of weeks since you guys listened to those microphones and I wanted to get your second opinion on what you heard.

Bob, what do you think the second time around 

Bob: what was interesting is, so I used a local digital analog converter, so everything’s high rise, really good sounding equipment here. And yeah. The mic sounded better, so much better on that setup than it did coming through the internet. So all of them sounded better.

And I have some comments on a couple of individual Mike’s if you’d like, but it was more representative of what I wanted to hear. I guess it sounded better. 

Tony: I have the microphones that we looked at last week, up on the screen here, a through J. Last week, Bob, I think you picked F as your favorite microphone of the bunch, although we weren’t really trying to pick the best microphone.

So tell me the second time around. Yeah. Yeah. The second time around, what did you think of the different box? Did you have a new 

Bob: favorite? Oh, a new favorite is G. The manly reference. Absolutely. It is. I just love the way that Mike sounds after listening to, 

Tony: I really like how that Mike sounds as well, especially for my voice.

That’s why I pick it. And I actually use that mic for doing some voiceovers on the show. So that’s the mic that you’re hearing when you hear those voiceovers. 

Bob: I was kind of deriding. See, and when I listened to your voice, now I get that interviewing type sound that comes out of it. It’s better than I thought it was in the way I heard it before.