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EPISODE · May 22, 2026 · 41 MIN

AI discussion of Gilbert Briggs ongoing contribution to British Hi-Fi

from The HiFi Hobbyist Podcast · host alan gillies

This week’s podcast features a discussion about the impact of Gilbert Briggs on the development of the British Hi-Fi scene between two AI protagonists. They have been prompted to  compare Briggs’s contribution with another of my Hi-Fi heroes, Peter Walker, founder of QUAD, and to consider Briggs's legacy for modern-day Hi-Fi loudspeakers in general and Wharfedale in particular. As Gilbert Briggs was a keen musician who loved his pianos, as well as an engineer, we have chosen a piano accompaniment for this week's discussion. We feature extracts from Mussorgsky’s original version of Pictures at an Exhibition for solo piano recorded by Sviatoslav Richter somewhere in the U.S.S.R. sometime in the 1950s, during Gilbert Briggs's heyday, and downloaded from the Internet Archive, and used under a Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 licence.  We hope you enjoy the discussion!

This week’s podcast features a discussion about the impact of Gilbert Briggs on the development of the British Hi-Fi scene between two AI protagonists. They have been prompted to  compare Briggs’s contribution with another of my Hi-Fi heroes, Peter Walker, founder of QUAD, and to consider Briggs's legacy for modern-day Hi-Fi loudspeakers in general and Wharfedale in particular.As Gilbert Briggs was a keen musician who loved his pianos, as well as an engineer, we have chosen a piano accompaniment for this week's discussion. We feature extracts from Mussorgsky’s original version of Pictures at an Exhibition for solo piano recorded by Sviatoslav Richter somewhere in the U.S.S.R. sometime in the 1950s, during Gilbert Briggs's heyday, and downloaded from the Internet Archive, and used under a Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 licence. We hope you enjoy the discussion!

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