Jack Mangan and Eric Haley visited the Brandenburg Labs booth at NAMMShow 2026 to speak with legendary musical inventor and Internet Hall of Fame Inductee: Dr. Karlheinz Brandenburg, about his latest innovation: Okeanos Pro Headphones. His biggest claim to fame is co-inventing the .mp3 file format.

Topics covered:

-Augmented Reality Immersive Headphones. The sound changes as you walk around the rood. It’s wild to experience.

-Listening to Rush on the Atari 800.

-Impact of the .mp3 format.

SLAM Bumper: Rich Catino.

Full disclosure. The room around us was seriously noisy. Some of the audio is rough. We know. The second half of the video is better. Yes, we did run Noise Reduction.

An 8-minute NAMM hallway conversation with Chad Leon, singer and guitarist of the mighty Kings of Thrash .

Lyrics reference: Megadeth.

SLAM Bumper: Jason McMaster

-Be humble

-Forming your neuro pathways.

-Practice thinking positively

Camera work: Eric Haley.

A 10-minute NAMM hallway conversation with Joel Hoekstra, hyper-talented guitarist with Whitesnake, Trans-Siberian Orchestra, Revolution Saints, and numerous other projects, including Joel Hoekstra’s 13.

Lyrics reference: Whitesnake.

-Making 10 cents an hour.

-You’re treated like a king and then you’re a bum and then you’re a king.

-Try and look at it logically.

Camera work: Eric Haley.