3 Sad Bastards

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

After all the blood, sweat and tears of making a pair of DIY loudspeakers, the moment of truth is how they sound! But first you have to make sure they are not connected out of phas...

Special Guest Edition! The 3 Sad Bastards are joined by Roger Sanders from Sanders Audio Systems in this first ever episode where someone has been brave enough to come on and engag...

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

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

The allure of shiny and new goodness vs. crufty and dated oldness proves too much for the 3 Sad Bastards. In this episode they come clean that they really, really, really only cons...

The 3 Sad Bastards take a pair of pliers and blowtorches to the fine art of audiophile hifi reviews. Superlatives are used LIBERALLY, and this episode is without doubt the best and...

One of the 3 Sad Bastards has started a project to build to build a pair of loudspeakers. How hard could it be, right? Listen to the other Sad Bastards rip into SB1's naiveté, rose...

Back by popular demand, the 3 Sad Bastards kick off Season 2  with an episode dedicate to headphones. Finally! SB3 is vindicated after years of trying to convince SB2 and SB1 ...

Why did three audio, hifi, enthusiast audiophiles decide to create a podcast? Why should the world care, and what can other sad bastards expect as a return after 10 episodes? In th...

Why does music sound better when you've had a few drinks... or does it? In this episodes the 3 Sad Bastards get increasingly inebriated and (try to)  determine once and for al...

It's time to upgrade your system. After endless reading on the Interwebs, arguing against your desires, many months of siphoning your pay to that hidden account that you think (hop...