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[SPEAKER_01]: a factual data creation facility production.
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[SPEAKER_05]: In a world where some podcasts make millions of dollars, I bring you the OF&T podcast, which isn't one of them.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Now here's your host, Jim Schafer.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Welcome to episode 336, which I'm calling, Price Hiking.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Everywhere you look in shop, price is seem to be going up.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Every week it seems that some tech firms, streaming service or whatever, are announcing price hikes.
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[SPEAKER_04]: It's getting to the point where a lot of consumers are being priced out of the market.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Those that still can afford these new prices are reconsidering whether to buy a new product or just hang on to what they've got.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I fall into the latter category.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Alright, it's time to start this thing.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, you.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Fire.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, you.
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[SPEAKER_02]: This week's tech news.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I'm starting off with the Sparse Android News for the week.
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[SPEAKER_04]: In the last episode, I reported on a patent filed by Samsung with showed a foldable phone with the camera lenses mounted horizontally onto a camera island.
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[SPEAKER_04]: similar to the way Google Mouse Air cameras on pixels.
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[SPEAKER_04]: This week, Leaker's Sunni Dixon posted renders of the upcoming Galaxy S27 Ultra, which shows that this camera island design seems to have been adopted Galaxy Phone wide.
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[SPEAKER_04]: There's only one difference.
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[SPEAKER_04]: The cameras are mounted vertically.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Also, these renders show the camera island resembling that of Apple's iPhones rather than mimicking Google's Pixel phones.
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[SPEAKER_03]: What?
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[SPEAKER_04]: Of course there was backlash from Denizans of the Internet if I may borrow a phrase from Call Me Chado of YouTube fame.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Many commenters are accusing Samsung of copying Apple once again.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Though I sourced this report from both Android Authority and nine to five Google, Android Authority had the best headline which was, quote, if these Galaxy S27 Ultrarenders are accurate, Samsung can't stop Apple copycat claims, unquote.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Copycat or not, I think the camera island improves the looks of the Galaxy phones and copycatting Apple phones is nothing new for Samsung.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I mean, they've been doing it since the first Galaxy phone.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Continuing with Samsung, 95 Google has an article covering the announcement of the Galaxy S26 FE phone.
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[SPEAKER_04]: The FE standing for fan edition.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Basically, the FE is a lower-end version of the regular Galaxy S series of phones, which gives consumers a budget phone with high-end features.
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[SPEAKER_04]: That is, or was, until RAMPRISE's skyrocketed.
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[SPEAKER_04]: This leaves the new S26 FE being almost exactly the same as last year's S25 FE with
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[SPEAKER_04]: Of course the price is risen by $50, it's now $699, versus last year's $650.
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[SPEAKER_04]: As the article points out, you'd be better off buying last year's Galaxy S25 FE, which can be had for around $500 these days.
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[SPEAKER_04]: You'd be getting minus a slight increase in speed, the same exact phone, but for $200 cheaper.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Fire in the market for an Android-based phone I'd be taking a hard look at the nothing phone line up.
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[SPEAKER_04]: The nothing company has created its own ecosystem to include phones, tablets, earbuds, and more.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Now will these products be the top of the line?
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[SPEAKER_04]: For their prices, no.
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[SPEAKER_04]: But what you get are devices that function very well for the cost of them.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Well enough for the average consumer anyway.
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[SPEAKER_04]: feeling left out of the ongoing price-couging currently raging through the tech industry.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Good old Amazon has decided to join their fray.
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[SPEAKER_04]: According to Android Authority, the world's largest online retailer has raised the prices for Echo Smart Speakers, Kindle E-Readers, Fire TV sticks, and E-Row wireless mesh routers.
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[SPEAKER_04]: So far, ring home security products have been spared, but you just know Amazon will eventually get around to raising those prices too.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Oh yes!
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[SPEAKER_04]: I've got to ask once again, is AI worth these price increases?
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[SPEAKER_04]: I think not, but then again, I don't know much.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Next year we'll be the 20th anniversary of the introduction of the first iPhone.
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[SPEAKER_04]: As I've discussed on his podcast previously, Apple may or may not be making a special old glass or mostly glass iPhone celebrating this milestone.
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[SPEAKER_04]: We've had various reports stating that the project has been canceled, will be made mostly of glass, or that the old glass construction is in fact happening.
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[SPEAKER_04]: This week we have Weibo Leaker of some merit fixed focus digital, posting his take on this
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[SPEAKER_04]: According to the leak and also renders, the anniversary phone will be made from all glass, well, at least from what I can see.
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[SPEAKER_04]: The model is to be based on the manufacturing process of the iPhone Air, but modifications are being made where the materials will be more rounded.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, this might pertain to the rumored waterfall-edge quad-curt display, which wraps around the edges of the device.
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[SPEAKER_04]: 9-5 Mac Beliefs, this will give the iPhone the appearance of a bezel-free display.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Mac Rumors commenting on the same waybo leak, claims Apple has modified the manufacturing equipment used to make the iPhone Air to produce this perhaps, maybe, all glass iPhone in order to save money.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And I'm sure Apple will be passing on those savings to their customers.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I sure hope you were being sarcastic there.
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[SPEAKER_04]: After next month's iPhone event, we'll be hearing more about this iPhone.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, we'll be getting day-loosed with reports regarding this phone model.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Oh yeah, by the time it's actually released, we'll be sick of hearing about it.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Just like this upcoming foldable model.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I think it will be far more worse than what we're seeing with this iPhone Ultra or whatever Apple is going to call their foldable phone.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Apple Inside reported this past Tuesday that Apple has updated both the Mac Mini and Mac Studio.
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[SPEAKER_04]: The Mac Mini gets the choice of Ether in M5 or M6 Apple's Silicon chip.
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[SPEAKER_04]: While the Max Studio buyers get to choice of a quicking there in my opinion over price machines, with either an M5 Max or the M5 Ultra, so besides the new chips, there's nothing else major being updated.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Well, there is one major update, and that would be the price.
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[SPEAKER_04]: The starting price of the Mac Mini has increased by 300 bucks.
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[SPEAKER_04]: While the price of the Max Studio has gone up by $1,500 for the Max version,
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[SPEAKER_04]: and $2,000 for the Ultra version.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Apple also snuck in a Magic Keyboard update.
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[SPEAKER_04]: The keys of these new keyboards have replaced the tab, hapslock, shift return, and delete key caps with a glyph instead of the previous key's names.
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[SPEAKER_05]: So I guess the giant fruit company will be saving money by not having to manufacture a U.S. specific Magic Keyboard.
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[SPEAKER_04]: And like the iPhone Air's manufacturing process that was modified for the upcoming anniversary
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[SPEAKER_04]: He savings won't not be passed on to the consumer.
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[SPEAKER_04]: No.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Apple has previously made this switch to glyphs on the company's MacBook keyboards.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Now, when is Apple going to design and release a decent computer mouse?
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[SPEAKER_04]: Hopefully, that happened soon.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I'm glad I have the old Magic Keyboard with words on it.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I'm confused enough with the way it is now.
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[SPEAKER_04]: 9 to 5 mag has an interesting article on their site which runs out what features the new foldable iPhone Ultra won't have.
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[SPEAKER_04]: They are no telephoto camera, which for me is no big deal.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I'm not into photography much these days.
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[SPEAKER_04]: The action button, again something I rarely if ever use.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Face ID.
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[SPEAKER_00]: What?
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[SPEAKER_04]: Now here's a feature that I would miss having on my phone.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Instead, this ultra will have a combination slash a touch ID button.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I've used these before on a old iPad Airahad and wound up just punching in my lock screen code.
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[SPEAKER_04]: That's because most of the time the power slash touch ID button failed to work.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I might test the same problem on her current iPad Air.
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[SPEAKER_04]: The new Ultra iPhone won't have MagSafe, which is another feature I would probably miss.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I've converted all my wireless chargers to MagSafe compatibility as Apple was selling MagSafe as the wave of the future.
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[SPEAKER_04]: How Google of them?
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[SPEAKER_04]: Right?
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[SPEAKER_04]: I love using that always on display at night.
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[SPEAKER_04]: A quick lens tilted me to time and the weather.
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[SPEAKER_04]: This has no big deal for me these days, as I don't swap Sims between phones like I used to.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Anyway, eSims have worked just fine.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Would you be able to give up these features just to have a foldable phone?
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[SPEAKER_04]: Well, as Wednesday I received an email from Apple and now seeing an event to be held on September 9th.
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[SPEAKER_04]: It's titled Surprise and Shine.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Well, I guess this confirms the rumored date for the new iPhone event.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Surprise and shine.
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[SPEAKER_04]: What does that even mean?
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[SPEAKER_04]: Beats me?
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[SPEAKER_04]: I thought it would be closed something like, see what unfolds get it unfolds like the foldable iPhone?
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[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, I get it.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Here's some free advice for you.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Don't quit your day job.
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[SPEAKER_05]: What do you mean?
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[SPEAKER_05]: I don't have a, hey, wait a minute.
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[SPEAKER_04]: When I sat down to record last week's episode, I was greeted by a blank screen of my roadcaster dual audio interface, so did you figure out how to turn it back on?
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[SPEAKER_04]: Um, it was already turned on.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Uh-uh.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Well, the screen wasn't completely blank.
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[SPEAKER_04]: It was displaying gibberish symbols along the screen's bottom.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Ha!
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[SPEAKER_04]: I bet that sent you into panic mode.
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[SPEAKER_04]: No, not really.
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[SPEAKER_04]: The one thing that I've learned from my time in the military is to always have a backup,
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[SPEAKER_04]: I would have just dusted off my fluid connect six and recorded the episode.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I rebooted the duo and that seemed to do the trick.
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[SPEAKER_04]: To again borrow an expression from some YouTube channel I sometimes watch, until recording was finished and I set about editing the audio.
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[SPEAKER_04]: The playback was noisy and stuttered, then did this manage to send you into a panic.
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[SPEAKER_04]: However, I knew that my audio wasn't recorded like that because I played back after I complete a section.
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[SPEAKER_04]: As I had done previously a reboot of the device cured at the audio problems.
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[SPEAKER_04]: This is the first time I've ever experienced a hiccup while using the road into face.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Well, at least a hiccup that wasn't caused by my digital audio workstation or myself.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Now we did have a thunderstorm Saturday night that knocked out our electricity for about a minute, so that might have been the cause of the malfunctions.
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[SPEAKER_04]: But we've had ran out before and for a much longer period of time which had no effect on the roadcaster.
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[SPEAKER_04]: This event has caused my Amazon purchasing finger-to-tremble in anticipation of it triggering an order to purchase that Antelope Zeta's two audio interface, which is waiting patiently on my wish list for a sale to happen.
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[SPEAKER_04]: A Labor Day will soon be upon us and I'm hoping for a sale of this audio interface.
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[SPEAKER_04]: A couple of episodes or more ago I told you I had purchased a pair of Sennheiser DT 770 Pro Headphones.
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[SPEAKER_04]: They replaced my trusty Sony MDR 7506's.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Though the Sony sound a great, they colored the sound of my recordings to the point bit.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Upon playback, I was either too busy or too hissy.
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[SPEAKER_04]: That's not the case with the Senizers, which I mean press with.
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[SPEAKER_04]: How impressed are you?
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[SPEAKER_04]: I'm so impressed that I just bought a pair of Senizers HD 280 pros.
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[SPEAKER_04]: BHD 280s are less than half the price of the DT 770s, but have great reviews than the less.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I'll be taking them along with me to earn my trip to the Philippines, come January.
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[SPEAKER_04]: They'll be better than the old Audi Attentica ATHM 20s I ship to the Philippines already.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Upon receiving the new HD 280s, I thought that they were made in Romania, not Germany.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Oh!
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[SPEAKER_04]: Well, at least they're made somewhere in Europe.
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[SPEAKER_04]: The build quality isn't on the same level as the much more expensive TT 770s, but that's far for the course, as the cool kids say.
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[SPEAKER_04]: No.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I've given them a listen and found them to be louder than the TT 770s and are closer and sound to the Sony headphones.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Of course I haven't had time to break them in yet, so I'm hoping they'll settle down eventually with further use.
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[SPEAKER_04]: The Beats Studio Buds Plus are what I use while exercising.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I use them in lieu of my Apple's AirPods Pro because they are more comfortable to wear
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[SPEAKER_04]: I've sung these Studio Buds praises here before.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Yes.
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[SPEAKER_04]: You know, I wish Apple would put out an Apple-branded AirPods, and this form-factor includes all the features of the AirPods Pro.
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[SPEAKER_04]: The Studio Buds are more compact and thus far easier to carry.
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[SPEAKER_04]: The only thing that I wish they had is the ability to track heart rate.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Well, why don't you just use your third-generation AirPods Pro?
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[SPEAKER_05]: They have that feature.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Well, there are two reasons, but a life of me I can't get the AirPods to pair with my Piloton indoor cycle without having to jump through hoops.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I have to drill down into a couple of menus in order for them to pair.
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[SPEAKER_04]: The beach pair automatically.
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[SPEAKER_04]: The second reason is that the AirPods stems getting away while I attempt overhead movements like dumbbell presses and especially when doing kettlebell presses.
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[SPEAKER_04]: In a perfect world, Studio Buds would gain heart rate monitoring or the AirPods Pro would have a model with the Studio Buds' Stemulus Form factor.
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[SPEAKER_04]: But let's face it.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Either is likely to happen.
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[SPEAKER_02]: No.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I've just run into the weirdest computer problem that I have ever had.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Is the problem something to do with being unable to afford a new one?
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[SPEAKER_04]: Well, that is a problem, but I wouldn't consider it as being weird.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I decided to purchase a new audio processing plugin that I plan on using while I'm in the Philippines next year.
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[SPEAKER_04]: The audio interface I'm going to use, the Focus Rife Focus 2, is very capable, but lacks one important thing.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Where I'll be staying is pretty noisy, not from humans, but from the wild life.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Chickens, other types of birds, dogs, frogs, and other animals I don't even want to think about.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Let you know they're active by making themselves heard.
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[SPEAKER_04]: So, an outfit out of Austria named Sonobal has come out with a new channel strip that has besides equalization, compression, and other goodies, a pretty highly regarded noise gate.
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[SPEAKER_04]: So I paid my shekels, got the download link, and clicked on it.
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[SPEAKER_04]: My safari brows are overdupped to the Sonobal download page, and nothing happened.
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[SPEAKER_04]: After a bit, I got the dreaded server time-bout message.
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[SPEAKER_04]: thinking that this being a new product, perhaps the servers were overloaded with download requests.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Wrong!
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[SPEAKER_05]: There you go thinking again.
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[SPEAKER_04]: So I decided to try again the next morning and when I did, well, I got the same results.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I then turned off all the various privacy features and blockers on my browser, but the darn file would not download.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I then attempted to download the file using the brave browser, but got no joy.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Now becoming desperate, I downloaded the Duck Duck Goal browser.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Well, at least this prove that your computer was actually capable of downloading files.
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[SPEAKER_04]: True.
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[SPEAKER_04]: And then again, I attempted to download the plugin that I had already paid for.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, again, I got that server timed out error.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Did you try to contact the company's customer service?
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[SPEAKER_04]: Of course, I did via email multiple times.
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[SPEAKER_04]: while eating supper late of that night.
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[SPEAKER_04]: What did you have?
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[SPEAKER_04]: A salad with grilled chicken.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Sounds delicious.
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[SPEAKER_04]: It was, well, I got an idea.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I can get my trusty iPhone.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I clicked it down load link from the email and voila.
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[SPEAKER_04]: It actually worked.
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[SPEAKER_05]: So you were attempting to download an iOS version of the app to your Mac.
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[SPEAKER_04]: No, there is no iOS version of this app.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Anyway I was able to download the app installation file onto my iPhone and then using AirDrop trend for the file to my Mac.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Once on my computer I was able to install the plug-in.
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[SPEAKER_04]: In fact I'm using it on this episode, how does it sound?
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[SPEAKER_04]: It's usual you probably can't tell the difference.
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[SPEAKER_04]: You know I've had a bunch of strange things like this happen on my Mac mini over the past
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[SPEAKER_04]: Perhaps it is time to fight the bulletin pony up a heap of cash for a new one.
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[SPEAKER_04]: In the last episode, I reported about streaming service peacock raising their subscription prices and how I was afraid that this would open the floodgates for another round of price increases for other streaming services.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Well, they've begun.
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[SPEAKER_04]: ESPN the political force network has announced price increases for all their streaming products.
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[SPEAKER_04]: This means standalone ESPN subscriptions and bundles.
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[SPEAKER_04]: The bundles include other Disney-owned properties such as Hulu and Disney Plus, not to be left out Apple has raised prices for its Apple TV service by $2.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Will now cost $14.99 per month.
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[SPEAKER_04]: That service debuted back in 2020 at $4.99.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Apple TV is part of the Apple One bundle, so of course the price for that will be increasing too.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I'll be getting rid of live television streamer Fubo and replace it with sling.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Heck, I might even just say screw it and just have no life television service at all.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I hardly watch live television these days and the only reason I still have it is to cover all the New York Yankee games and baseball pole season.
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[SPEAKER_04]: My lovely wife has gotten away from watching every Yankee's game so I see an opening here.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I'll be looking into this next week.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I'm beginning to see what you meant by the opening of the floodgates' quip.
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[SPEAKER_05]: As soon as one streaming service provider raises prices, the rest do the same.
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[SPEAKER_05]: It sure does seem that way.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Now you understand why content piracy is increasing?
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[SPEAKER_02]: Podcast news or something similar to it.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Spot News on that has an interesting article which points out the fallacy of how podcasting is portrayed on television.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Joe's like only murders in the building, a personal favorite of mine.
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[SPEAKER_04]: The sense canceled, truth be had told, and others are assented around a podcast.
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[SPEAKER_04]: The problem is that these fictitious podcasts are not technically accurate.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Think those two television shows I just mentioned.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Only murders in the building shows the cast recording a podcast using a, well, what looks like a single sure KSM32 contents are microphone.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Set up in the middle of a very spacious apartment.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Of course the re-verb in the New York City traffic would make the resulting audio unlistenable.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Sure, you can clean it up, but the result would be barely listenable.
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[SPEAKER_04]: They also use their smartphones and handheld recorders during the show.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Again, the resulting audio would have to undergo significant post-processing to be usable.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Same goes for a truth-beathold.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Instead of using the SureKSM32 Concentrum Mike, the character uses a much more suitable SureSM7B, which because of it being a dynamic type of Mike, as much less sensitive and
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[SPEAKER_04]: The problem in this case is that the speaker is usually a footer more off the mic.
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[SPEAKER_04]: The SM7B takes a lot of gain as it is.
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[SPEAKER_04]: If using it at this distance, you would hardly hear the voice of the speaker.
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[SPEAKER_04]: The only television series that I've seen has gotten it right was the Facebook original Facebook?
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[SPEAKER_05]: Really?
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[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, I'm about 2017 until 2022 Facebook produced its own original content.
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[SPEAKER_04]: As a matter of fact, back then I brought up on this podcast that my lovely wife watched most of her content on Facebook.
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[SPEAKER_04]: That was before discovering the magic of VPNs.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Yes.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Anyhow, the Facebook original line-down itself based on a podcast, at the main character working for Public Radio, and she used her employer's studio to record a podcast.
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[SPEAKER_04]: While in the field, she had a realistic mobile recording rig set up too.
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[SPEAKER_04]: The other fallacy with television's depiction of podcasters is that they are immediately successful with thousands of listeners from the get-go.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I mean, that is possible, but only if you're a celebrity with the backing of some sort of media outfit.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I've been doing this sorry excuse for a podcast since 2019, and at my zenith, I had little list in a thousand listters per episode, but that was before podcasting cooperated reared its ugly head.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Things are certainly different now these days, tell me about it.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Now of course I spend my beliefs while watching these shows, but the author argues that this type of portrayal gives the would-be podcast or false hope.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Well, these days, to be an independent podcaster, you've got to love what you're doing.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Odds are, you'll be consigned to the very bottom of audience numbers.
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[SPEAKER_04]: There's just too much competition out there now.
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[SPEAKER_04]: To tie in with the last item, here's my advice if you think you want to give podcasting a shot.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Do as much research about what's required before deciding to jump in.
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[SPEAKER_04]: The days of just buying a cheap blue Yeti USB microphone and using audacity are over.
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[SPEAKER_04]: If you can rent equipment instead of buying it, until you decide whether you're going to stick with podcasting or not.
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[SPEAKER_04]: If forced to buy, look towards the use of markets.
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[SPEAKER_04]: If you do make the decision to continue podcasting, these days you can get professional sounding audio for far less money compared to when I first started.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Here are my equipment recommendations.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I know you see most podcasts using the Sure SM7B.
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[SPEAKER_04]: As I've said before, this mic is known for being gain-hungry and produces a sort of muffled sound out of the box.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Instead, for less than $100, you can get a road pod mic.
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[SPEAKER_04]: The pod mic has what's called a modern sound.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Meaning it scoops out a lot of the lower frequencies and boosts the mid and high frequencies.
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[SPEAKER_04]: The pod mic is built like a tank and can be easily equalized.
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[SPEAKER_04]: For an audio interface, I'd go with the focus right Vocaster 2.
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[SPEAKER_04]: It's selling for a little over $100 these days.
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[SPEAKER_04]: You can save even more money by getting a Vocaster 1, which sells for a $69.
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[SPEAKER_04]: But the two give you more advanced features allows you to expand.
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[SPEAKER_04]: The included software has p-setsable while your pod mic to sound great without having a fiddle with settings.
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[SPEAKER_04]: For a digital audio workstation, if you have a Mac, just use GarageBand, it's free.
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[SPEAKER_04]: If you have a Windows PC, there's Audacity, which is free also.
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[SPEAKER_04]: The hosting Spotify will also do that for free.
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[SPEAKER_04]: There are other more reputable hosting services that also offer free hosting, but you'll soon grow out of that tier.
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[SPEAKER_04]: For a Mike's Dan search Amazon, you'll find many for around $20 to $30.
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[SPEAKER_04]: They wait for the cheap ones.
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[SPEAKER_04]: The headphones expect to spend about 50 bucks for a good pair of studio monitors that will last you.
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[SPEAKER_04]: As far as XLR cables go and you will do just don't buy ones like the Amazon Basics.
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[SPEAKER_04]: So for around $350 you can have a recording set up that will give you a polished professional sound right away.
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[SPEAKER_05]: What's these options were available when I first started?
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[SPEAKER_05]: If I may interject here, there's another option.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Just sign up for one of those AI texts to speech services and type out what you want to say.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Save the resulting audio file, load it up onto your digital audio workstation, and you'll have an instant episode.
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[SPEAKER_05]: No need for any hardware.
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[SPEAKER_05]: It's the future.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, you can do that, but besides resulting audio losing that human touch, your podcast could be labeled as AI Slop.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Many podcast indexes won't even list your show.
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[SPEAKER_04]: This would work for short informational type podcasts.
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[SPEAKER_04]: The music is playing, episode 336 is rapidly coming to its conclusion.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I hope you enjoyed this episode.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I enjoyed making it for you.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Be like what you heard.
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[SPEAKER_04]: You can always make a donation using the link in the show notes.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Any and all donations will be greatly appreciated.
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[SPEAKER_01]: If you would like to contact the OFNT podcast, you can do so by sending an email to OFNTpodcast at gmail.com.
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[SPEAKER_04]: And remember, don't listen to what they say.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Watch what they do.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I don't even know what to say here, so just get off my lawn.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Stay skeptical.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I'll be seeing you.
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[SPEAKER_04]: And that folks is the end of the show.
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[SPEAKER_01]: a factual data creation facility production.
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[SPEAKER_05]: In a world where some podcasts make millions of dollars, I bring you the OF&T podcast, which isn't one of them.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Now here's your host, Jim Schafer.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Welcome to episode 336, which I'm calling, Price Hiking.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Everywhere you look in shop, price is seem to be going up.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Every week it seems that some tech firms, streaming service or whatever, are announcing price hikes.
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[SPEAKER_04]: It's getting to the point where a lot of consumers are being priced out of the market.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Those that still can afford these new prices are reconsidering whether to buy a new product or just hang on to what they've got.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I fall into the latter category.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Alright, it's time to start this thing.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, you.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Fire.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, you.
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[SPEAKER_02]: This week's tech news.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I'm starting off with the Sparse Android News for the week.
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[SPEAKER_04]: In the last episode, I reported on a patent filed by Samsung with showed a foldable phone with the camera lenses mounted horizontally onto a camera island.
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[SPEAKER_04]: similar to the way Google Mouse Air cameras on pixels.
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[SPEAKER_04]: This week, Leaker's Sunni Dixon posted renders of the upcoming Galaxy S27 Ultra, which shows that this camera island design seems to have been adopted Galaxy Phone wide.
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[SPEAKER_04]: There's only one difference.
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[SPEAKER_04]: The cameras are mounted vertically.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Also, these renders show the camera island resembling that of Apple's iPhones rather than mimicking Google's Pixel phones.
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[SPEAKER_03]: What?
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[SPEAKER_04]: Of course there was backlash from Denizans of the Internet if I may borrow a phrase from Call Me Chado of YouTube fame.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Many commenters are accusing Samsung of copying Apple once again.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Though I sourced this report from both Android Authority and nine to five Google, Android Authority had the best headline which was, quote, if these Galaxy S27 Ultrarenders are accurate, Samsung can't stop Apple copycat claims, unquote.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Copycat or not, I think the camera island improves the looks of the Galaxy phones and copycatting Apple phones is nothing new for Samsung.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I mean, they've been doing it since the first Galaxy phone.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Continuing with Samsung, 95 Google has an article covering the announcement of the Galaxy S26 FE phone.
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[SPEAKER_04]: The FE standing for fan edition.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Basically, the FE is a lower-end version of the regular Galaxy S series of phones, which gives consumers a budget phone with high-end features.
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[SPEAKER_04]: That is, or was, until RAMPRISE's skyrocketed.
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[SPEAKER_04]: This leaves the new S26 FE being almost exactly the same as last year's S25 FE with
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[SPEAKER_04]: Of course the price is risen by $50, it's now $699, versus last year's $650.
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[SPEAKER_04]: As the article points out, you'd be better off buying last year's Galaxy S25 FE, which can be had for around $500 these days.
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[SPEAKER_04]: You'd be getting minus a slight increase in speed, the same exact phone, but for $200 cheaper.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Fire in the market for an Android-based phone I'd be taking a hard look at the nothing phone line up.
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[SPEAKER_04]: The nothing company has created its own ecosystem to include phones, tablets, earbuds, and more.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Now will these products be the top of the line?
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[SPEAKER_04]: For their prices, no.
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[SPEAKER_04]: But what you get are devices that function very well for the cost of them.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Well enough for the average consumer anyway.
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[SPEAKER_04]: feeling left out of the ongoing price-couging currently raging through the tech industry.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Good old Amazon has decided to join their fray.
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[SPEAKER_04]: According to Android Authority, the world's largest online retailer has raised the prices for Echo Smart Speakers, Kindle E-Readers, Fire TV sticks, and E-Row wireless mesh routers.
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[SPEAKER_04]: So far, ring home security products have been spared, but you just know Amazon will eventually get around to raising those prices too.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Oh yes!
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[SPEAKER_04]: I've got to ask once again, is AI worth these price increases?
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[SPEAKER_04]: I think not, but then again, I don't know much.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Next year we'll be the 20th anniversary of the introduction of the first iPhone.
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[SPEAKER_04]: As I've discussed on his podcast previously, Apple may or may not be making a special old glass or mostly glass iPhone celebrating this milestone.
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[SPEAKER_04]: We've had various reports stating that the project has been canceled, will be made mostly of glass, or that the old glass construction is in fact happening.
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[SPEAKER_04]: This week we have Weibo Leaker of some merit fixed focus digital, posting his take on this
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[SPEAKER_04]: According to the leak and also renders, the anniversary phone will be made from all glass, well, at least from what I can see.
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[SPEAKER_04]: The model is to be based on the manufacturing process of the iPhone Air, but modifications are being made where the materials will be more rounded.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, this might pertain to the rumored waterfall-edge quad-curt display, which wraps around the edges of the device.
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[SPEAKER_04]: 9-5 Mac Beliefs, this will give the iPhone the appearance of a bezel-free display.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Mac Rumors commenting on the same waybo leak, claims Apple has modified the manufacturing equipment used to make the iPhone Air to produce this perhaps, maybe, all glass iPhone in order to save money.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And I'm sure Apple will be passing on those savings to their customers.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I sure hope you were being sarcastic there.
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[SPEAKER_04]: After next month's iPhone event, we'll be hearing more about this iPhone.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, we'll be getting day-loosed with reports regarding this phone model.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Oh yeah, by the time it's actually released, we'll be sick of hearing about it.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Just like this upcoming foldable model.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I think it will be far more worse than what we're seeing with this iPhone Ultra or whatever Apple is going to call their foldable phone.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Apple Inside reported this past Tuesday that Apple has updated both the Mac Mini and Mac Studio.
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[SPEAKER_04]: The Mac Mini gets the choice of Ether in M5 or M6 Apple's Silicon chip.
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[SPEAKER_04]: While the Max Studio buyers get to choice of a quicking there in my opinion over price machines, with either an M5 Max or the M5 Ultra, so besides the new chips, there's nothing else major being updated.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Well, there is one major update, and that would be the price.
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[SPEAKER_04]: The starting price of the Mac Mini has increased by 300 bucks.
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[SPEAKER_04]: While the price of the Max Studio has gone up by $1,500 for the Max version,
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[SPEAKER_04]: and $2,000 for the Ultra version.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Apple also snuck in a Magic Keyboard update.
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[SPEAKER_04]: The keys of these new keyboards have replaced the tab, hapslock, shift return, and delete key caps with a glyph instead of the previous key's names.
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[SPEAKER_05]: So I guess the giant fruit company will be saving money by not having to manufacture a U.S. specific Magic Keyboard.
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[SPEAKER_04]: And like the iPhone Air's manufacturing process that was modified for the upcoming anniversary
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[SPEAKER_04]: He savings won't not be passed on to the consumer.
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[SPEAKER_04]: No.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Apple has previously made this switch to glyphs on the company's MacBook keyboards.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Now, when is Apple going to design and release a decent computer mouse?
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[SPEAKER_04]: Hopefully, that happened soon.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I'm glad I have the old Magic Keyboard with words on it.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I'm confused enough with the way it is now.
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[SPEAKER_04]: 9 to 5 mag has an interesting article on their site which runs out what features the new foldable iPhone Ultra won't have.
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[SPEAKER_04]: They are no telephoto camera, which for me is no big deal.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I'm not into photography much these days.
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[SPEAKER_04]: The action button, again something I rarely if ever use.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Face ID.
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[SPEAKER_00]: What?
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[SPEAKER_04]: Now here's a feature that I would miss having on my phone.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Instead, this ultra will have a combination slash a touch ID button.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I've used these before on a old iPad Airahad and wound up just punching in my lock screen code.
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[SPEAKER_04]: That's because most of the time the power slash touch ID button failed to work.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I might test the same problem on her current iPad Air.
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[SPEAKER_04]: The new Ultra iPhone won't have MagSafe, which is another feature I would probably miss.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I've converted all my wireless chargers to MagSafe compatibility as Apple was selling MagSafe as the wave of the future.
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[SPEAKER_04]: How Google of them?
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[SPEAKER_04]: Right?
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[SPEAKER_04]: I love using that always on display at night.
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[SPEAKER_04]: A quick lens tilted me to time and the weather.
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[SPEAKER_04]: This has no big deal for me these days, as I don't swap Sims between phones like I used to.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Anyway, eSims have worked just fine.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Would you be able to give up these features just to have a foldable phone?
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[SPEAKER_04]: Well, as Wednesday I received an email from Apple and now seeing an event to be held on September 9th.
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[SPEAKER_04]: It's titled Surprise and Shine.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Well, I guess this confirms the rumored date for the new iPhone event.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Surprise and shine.
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[SPEAKER_04]: What does that even mean?
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[SPEAKER_04]: Beats me?
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[SPEAKER_04]: I thought it would be closed something like, see what unfolds get it unfolds like the foldable iPhone?
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[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, I get it.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Here's some free advice for you.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Don't quit your day job.
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[SPEAKER_05]: What do you mean?
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[SPEAKER_05]: I don't have a, hey, wait a minute.
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[SPEAKER_04]: When I sat down to record last week's episode, I was greeted by a blank screen of my roadcaster dual audio interface, so did you figure out how to turn it back on?
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[SPEAKER_04]: Um, it was already turned on.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Uh-uh.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Well, the screen wasn't completely blank.
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[SPEAKER_04]: It was displaying gibberish symbols along the screen's bottom.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Ha!
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[SPEAKER_04]: I bet that sent you into panic mode.
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[SPEAKER_04]: No, not really.
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[SPEAKER_04]: The one thing that I've learned from my time in the military is to always have a backup,
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[SPEAKER_04]: I would have just dusted off my fluid connect six and recorded the episode.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I rebooted the duo and that seemed to do the trick.
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[SPEAKER_04]: To again borrow an expression from some YouTube channel I sometimes watch, until recording was finished and I set about editing the audio.
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[SPEAKER_04]: The playback was noisy and stuttered, then did this manage to send you into a panic.
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[SPEAKER_04]: However, I knew that my audio wasn't recorded like that because I played back after I complete a section.
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[SPEAKER_04]: As I had done previously a reboot of the device cured at the audio problems.
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[SPEAKER_04]: This is the first time I've ever experienced a hiccup while using the road into face.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Well, at least a hiccup that wasn't caused by my digital audio workstation or myself.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Now we did have a thunderstorm Saturday night that knocked out our electricity for about a minute, so that might have been the cause of the malfunctions.
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[SPEAKER_04]: But we've had ran out before and for a much longer period of time which had no effect on the roadcaster.
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[SPEAKER_04]: This event has caused my Amazon purchasing finger-to-tremble in anticipation of it triggering an order to purchase that Antelope Zeta's two audio interface, which is waiting patiently on my wish list for a sale to happen.
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[SPEAKER_04]: A Labor Day will soon be upon us and I'm hoping for a sale of this audio interface.
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[SPEAKER_04]: A couple of episodes or more ago I told you I had purchased a pair of Sennheiser DT 770 Pro Headphones.
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[SPEAKER_04]: They replaced my trusty Sony MDR 7506's.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Though the Sony sound a great, they colored the sound of my recordings to the point bit.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Upon playback, I was either too busy or too hissy.
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[SPEAKER_04]: That's not the case with the Senizers, which I mean press with.
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[SPEAKER_04]: How impressed are you?
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[SPEAKER_04]: I'm so impressed that I just bought a pair of Senizers HD 280 pros.
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[SPEAKER_04]: BHD 280s are less than half the price of the DT 770s, but have great reviews than the less.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I'll be taking them along with me to earn my trip to the Philippines, come January.
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[SPEAKER_04]: They'll be better than the old Audi Attentica ATHM 20s I ship to the Philippines already.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Upon receiving the new HD 280s, I thought that they were made in Romania, not Germany.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Oh!
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[SPEAKER_04]: Well, at least they're made somewhere in Europe.
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[SPEAKER_04]: The build quality isn't on the same level as the much more expensive TT 770s, but that's far for the course, as the cool kids say.
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[SPEAKER_04]: No.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I've given them a listen and found them to be louder than the TT 770s and are closer and sound to the Sony headphones.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Of course I haven't had time to break them in yet, so I'm hoping they'll settle down eventually with further use.
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[SPEAKER_04]: The Beats Studio Buds Plus are what I use while exercising.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I use them in lieu of my Apple's AirPods Pro because they are more comfortable to wear
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[SPEAKER_04]: I've sung these Studio Buds praises here before.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Yes.
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[SPEAKER_04]: You know, I wish Apple would put out an Apple-branded AirPods, and this form-factor includes all the features of the AirPods Pro.
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[SPEAKER_04]: The Studio Buds are more compact and thus far easier to carry.
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[SPEAKER_04]: The only thing that I wish they had is the ability to track heart rate.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Well, why don't you just use your third-generation AirPods Pro?
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[SPEAKER_05]: They have that feature.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Well, there are two reasons, but a life of me I can't get the AirPods to pair with my Piloton indoor cycle without having to jump through hoops.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I have to drill down into a couple of menus in order for them to pair.
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[SPEAKER_04]: The beach pair automatically.
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[SPEAKER_04]: The second reason is that the AirPods stems getting away while I attempt overhead movements like dumbbell presses and especially when doing kettlebell presses.
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[SPEAKER_04]: In a perfect world, Studio Buds would gain heart rate monitoring or the AirPods Pro would have a model with the Studio Buds' Stemulus Form factor.
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[SPEAKER_04]: But let's face it.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Either is likely to happen.
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[SPEAKER_02]: No.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I've just run into the weirdest computer problem that I have ever had.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Is the problem something to do with being unable to afford a new one?
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[SPEAKER_04]: Well, that is a problem, but I wouldn't consider it as being weird.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I decided to purchase a new audio processing plugin that I plan on using while I'm in the Philippines next year.
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[SPEAKER_04]: The audio interface I'm going to use, the Focus Rife Focus 2, is very capable, but lacks one important thing.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Where I'll be staying is pretty noisy, not from humans, but from the wild life.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Chickens, other types of birds, dogs, frogs, and other animals I don't even want to think about.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Let you know they're active by making themselves heard.
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[SPEAKER_04]: So, an outfit out of Austria named Sonobal has come out with a new channel strip that has besides equalization, compression, and other goodies, a pretty highly regarded noise gate.
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[SPEAKER_04]: So I paid my shekels, got the download link, and clicked on it.
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[SPEAKER_04]: My safari brows are overdupped to the Sonobal download page, and nothing happened.
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[SPEAKER_04]: After a bit, I got the dreaded server time-bout message.
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[SPEAKER_04]: thinking that this being a new product, perhaps the servers were overloaded with download requests.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Wrong!
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[SPEAKER_05]: There you go thinking again.
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[SPEAKER_04]: So I decided to try again the next morning and when I did, well, I got the same results.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I then turned off all the various privacy features and blockers on my browser, but the darn file would not download.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I then attempted to download the file using the brave browser, but got no joy.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Now becoming desperate, I downloaded the Duck Duck Goal browser.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Well, at least this prove that your computer was actually capable of downloading files.
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[SPEAKER_04]: True.
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[SPEAKER_04]: And then again, I attempted to download the plugin that I had already paid for.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, again, I got that server timed out error.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Did you try to contact the company's customer service?
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[SPEAKER_04]: Of course, I did via email multiple times.
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[SPEAKER_04]: while eating supper late of that night.
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[SPEAKER_04]: What did you have?
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[SPEAKER_04]: A salad with grilled chicken.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Sounds delicious.
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[SPEAKER_04]: It was, well, I got an idea.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I can get my trusty iPhone.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I clicked it down load link from the email and voila.
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[SPEAKER_04]: It actually worked.
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[SPEAKER_05]: So you were attempting to download an iOS version of the app to your Mac.
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[SPEAKER_04]: No, there is no iOS version of this app.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Anyway I was able to download the app installation file onto my iPhone and then using AirDrop trend for the file to my Mac.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Once on my computer I was able to install the plug-in.
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[SPEAKER_04]: In fact I'm using it on this episode, how does it sound?
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[SPEAKER_04]: It's usual you probably can't tell the difference.
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[SPEAKER_04]: You know I've had a bunch of strange things like this happen on my Mac mini over the past
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[SPEAKER_04]: Perhaps it is time to fight the bulletin pony up a heap of cash for a new one.
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[SPEAKER_04]: In the last episode, I reported about streaming service peacock raising their subscription prices and how I was afraid that this would open the floodgates for another round of price increases for other streaming services.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Well, they've begun.
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[SPEAKER_04]: ESPN the political force network has announced price increases for all their streaming products.
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[SPEAKER_04]: This means standalone ESPN subscriptions and bundles.
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[SPEAKER_04]: The bundles include other Disney-owned properties such as Hulu and Disney Plus, not to be left out Apple has raised prices for its Apple TV service by $2.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Will now cost $14.99 per month.
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[SPEAKER_04]: That service debuted back in 2020 at $4.99.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Apple TV is part of the Apple One bundle, so of course the price for that will be increasing too.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I'll be getting rid of live television streamer Fubo and replace it with sling.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Heck, I might even just say screw it and just have no life television service at all.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I hardly watch live television these days and the only reason I still have it is to cover all the New York Yankee games and baseball pole season.
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[SPEAKER_04]: My lovely wife has gotten away from watching every Yankee's game so I see an opening here.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I'll be looking into this next week.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I'm beginning to see what you meant by the opening of the floodgates' quip.
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[SPEAKER_05]: As soon as one streaming service provider raises prices, the rest do the same.
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[SPEAKER_05]: It sure does seem that way.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Now you understand why content piracy is increasing?
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[SPEAKER_02]: Podcast news or something similar to it.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Spot News on that has an interesting article which points out the fallacy of how podcasting is portrayed on television.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Joe's like only murders in the building, a personal favorite of mine.
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[SPEAKER_04]: The sense canceled, truth be had told, and others are assented around a podcast.
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[SPEAKER_04]: The problem is that these fictitious podcasts are not technically accurate.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Think those two television shows I just mentioned.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Only murders in the building shows the cast recording a podcast using a, well, what looks like a single sure KSM32 contents are microphone.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Set up in the middle of a very spacious apartment.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Of course the re-verb in the New York City traffic would make the resulting audio unlistenable.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Sure, you can clean it up, but the result would be barely listenable.
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[SPEAKER_04]: They also use their smartphones and handheld recorders during the show.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Again, the resulting audio would have to undergo significant post-processing to be usable.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Same goes for a truth-beathold.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Instead of using the SureKSM32 Concentrum Mike, the character uses a much more suitable SureSM7B, which because of it being a dynamic type of Mike, as much less sensitive and
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[SPEAKER_04]: The problem in this case is that the speaker is usually a footer more off the mic.
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[SPEAKER_04]: The SM7B takes a lot of gain as it is.
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[SPEAKER_04]: If using it at this distance, you would hardly hear the voice of the speaker.
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[SPEAKER_04]: The only television series that I've seen has gotten it right was the Facebook original Facebook?
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[SPEAKER_05]: Really?
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[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, I'm about 2017 until 2022 Facebook produced its own original content.
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[SPEAKER_04]: As a matter of fact, back then I brought up on this podcast that my lovely wife watched most of her content on Facebook.
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[SPEAKER_04]: That was before discovering the magic of VPNs.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Yes.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Anyhow, the Facebook original line-down itself based on a podcast, at the main character working for Public Radio, and she used her employer's studio to record a podcast.
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[SPEAKER_04]: While in the field, she had a realistic mobile recording rig set up too.
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[SPEAKER_04]: The other fallacy with television's depiction of podcasters is that they are immediately successful with thousands of listeners from the get-go.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I mean, that is possible, but only if you're a celebrity with the backing of some sort of media outfit.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I've been doing this sorry excuse for a podcast since 2019, and at my zenith, I had little list in a thousand listters per episode, but that was before podcasting cooperated reared its ugly head.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Things are certainly different now these days, tell me about it.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Now of course I spend my beliefs while watching these shows, but the author argues that this type of portrayal gives the would-be podcast or false hope.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Well, these days, to be an independent podcaster, you've got to love what you're doing.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Odds are, you'll be consigned to the very bottom of audience numbers.
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[SPEAKER_04]: There's just too much competition out there now.
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[SPEAKER_04]: To tie in with the last item, here's my advice if you think you want to give podcasting a shot.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Do as much research about what's required before deciding to jump in.
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[SPEAKER_04]: The days of just buying a cheap blue Yeti USB microphone and using audacity are over.
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[SPEAKER_04]: If you can rent equipment instead of buying it, until you decide whether you're going to stick with podcasting or not.
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[SPEAKER_04]: If forced to buy, look towards the use of markets.
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[SPEAKER_04]: If you do make the decision to continue podcasting, these days you can get professional sounding audio for far less money compared to when I first started.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Here are my equipment recommendations.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I know you see most podcasts using the Sure SM7B.
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[SPEAKER_04]: As I've said before, this mic is known for being gain-hungry and produces a sort of muffled sound out of the box.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Instead, for less than $100, you can get a road pod mic.
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[SPEAKER_04]: The pod mic has what's called a modern sound.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Meaning it scoops out a lot of the lower frequencies and boosts the mid and high frequencies.
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[SPEAKER_04]: The pod mic is built like a tank and can be easily equalized.
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[SPEAKER_04]: For an audio interface, I'd go with the focus right Vocaster 2.
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[SPEAKER_04]: It's selling for a little over $100 these days.
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[SPEAKER_04]: You can save even more money by getting a Vocaster 1, which sells for a $69.
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[SPEAKER_04]: But the two give you more advanced features allows you to expand.
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[SPEAKER_04]: The included software has p-setsable while your pod mic to sound great without having a fiddle with settings.
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[SPEAKER_04]: For a digital audio workstation, if you have a Mac, just use GarageBand, it's free.
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[SPEAKER_04]: If you have a Windows PC, there's Audacity, which is free also.
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[SPEAKER_04]: The hosting Spotify will also do that for free.
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[SPEAKER_04]: There are other more reputable hosting services that also offer free hosting, but you'll soon grow out of that tier.
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[SPEAKER_04]: For a Mike's Dan search Amazon, you'll find many for around $20 to $30.
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[SPEAKER_04]: They wait for the cheap ones.
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[SPEAKER_04]: The headphones expect to spend about 50 bucks for a good pair of studio monitors that will last you.
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[SPEAKER_04]: As far as XLR cables go and you will do just don't buy ones like the Amazon Basics.
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[SPEAKER_04]: So for around $350 you can have a recording set up that will give you a polished professional sound right away.
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[SPEAKER_05]: What's these options were available when I first started?
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[SPEAKER_05]: If I may interject here, there's another option.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Just sign up for one of those AI texts to speech services and type out what you want to say.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Save the resulting audio file, load it up onto your digital audio workstation, and you'll have an instant episode.
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[SPEAKER_05]: No need for any hardware.
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[SPEAKER_05]: It's the future.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, you can do that, but besides resulting audio losing that human touch, your podcast could be labeled as AI Slop.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Many podcast indexes won't even list your show.
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[SPEAKER_04]: This would work for short informational type podcasts.
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[SPEAKER_04]: The music is playing, episode 336 is rapidly coming to its conclusion.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I hope you enjoyed this episode.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I enjoyed making it for you.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Be like what you heard.
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[SPEAKER_04]: You can always make a donation using the link in the show notes.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Any and all donations will be greatly appreciated.
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[SPEAKER_01]: If you would like to contact the OFNT podcast, you can do so by sending an email to OFNTpodcast at gmail.com.
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[SPEAKER_04]: And remember, don't listen to what they say.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Watch what they do.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I don't even know what to say here, so just get off my lawn.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Stay skeptical.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I'll be seeing you.
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[SPEAKER_04]: And that folks is the end of the show.
