Suggestion: Fewer topics or less discussion per show. Podcasts shouldn’t be two, three or four hours long. Most people don’t have that much time to listen each week.
My sweet spot for podcasts when the show is compelling – as The Noise Floor is – is 60 to 90 minutes.
Your mileage may vary, and maybe your metrics show more growth with longer pods. What do I know? … 
Agreed, one of the biggest travesties in modern remasters is going too far to remove tape hiss, it destroys the recording, every remastered version of Machine Head is a travesty when compared to the Vinyl, with the exception of the Japanese SACD version, which is at least close, because they left much of the hiss in. The OG CD release has lots of hiss too, but it’s got other issues.
That’s me, although a lot of my music isn’t an “audiophile recording.” I primarily focus on the music first, though; lyrics are in a distant second. Based on what the gang said in this past weekend’s podcast, I’m not the only one.
I think it would be really interesting to talk about how driver size can possibly have an effect on pinna interaction. A Reddit thread talking about how the HE-1 is the best headphone because ‘it measures flat and through use of its large driver does not need a baked in frequency response’.
https://www.reddit.com/r/headphones/s/6AGuBONKaW
Everything here sounds really wrong but I don’t know the technical reasons for it well enough to really explain why it sounds so wrong. Perhaps there’s some truth to it, but I just assume there’s not. Would be interesting to hear a more technical explanation for how this actually works and how driver size is actually relevant if at all.
Is audio uniquely vulnerable to subjective hallucinations like hearing “obvious” differences between cables and sources? What are unrelated hobbies y’all have with parallel subjective range, and why is (or isn’t) the audio hobby different?
Wondering about EQ. Seems like a comprehensive and contemporary discussion of How to’s and how not to’s is lacking. Selfishly, asking because I’m lost at where to start, but also seems like there’s a lot of talk about EQ, but not as much about the nuts and bolts of it. Perhaps not a sexy topic for discourse… Thanks for the show, watch every week!
We have a video on that here:
It’s a bit older but still relevant.
Perfect thanks! IDK why I was having a hard time finding this, I knew it must exist. Also that kicked the algorithm in gear so I’ve got a rabbit hole to explore now.
Just finished last weeks episode, thanks for another nice one 
A follow up question to the part where you discussed EQ, and how the cheaper measurement rigs might not be that helpful.
In your opinion, what would be a good measurement rig for the entusiast to get, and what skills are essential to learn, to get the most out of it? I basically want to be able to make reliable measurements for home usage.
Budget is 2-3K USD or less. Maybe that’s an unrealistic budget?
Looking forward to the next show 