Dan Benjamin and John Gruber do a very popular (~10k downloads per show) technology podcast called The Talk Show. Now that they have some episodes under their belts, Dan posted how he approached getting podcast hardware for both himself and John to use. It started out very simple and inexpensive and — through trial and error — became more expensive, better quality and much, much more predictable show-to-show.

Dan put in a lot of time testing around different hardware configurations to come up with what he and John are currently using. So, his advice comes from the experience of ordering hardware, trying it out and then returning it if it didn’t work out.

Read Dan’s entire podcast equipment guide on his website.