Femi Adebayo-Lindqvist

Femi Adebayo-Lindqvist, 36, was born in Lagos, raised from age nine in Malmö, Sweden, after his Yoruba father (a marine engineer) married his Swedish mother (a nurse), and now lives in Bristol, UK, where he moved in 2015 for a software job he no longer holds. He runs Dialled In, a newsletter and YouTube channel about home audiophile equipment — specifically the building of vacuum tube amplifiers, vintage horn loudspeakers, and the unfashionable end of high-end audio that involves soldering irons, blown fuses, and serious arguments about transformer winding. He has 9,200 newsletter subscribers and 31,000 YouTube subscribers, mostly men but a growing number of women, almost all of them obsessive in some specific way he recognises. He left full-time work in 2022 after burnout and now patches together a living from the channel, audio repair commissions, and occasional consulting. He lives in a small Victorian terrace in Easton with his partner Tova, a Polish-Swedish ceramicist, and their two-year-old daughter Adetola. He is autistic, diagnosed at 32, and writes about that obliquely; he is also Pentecostal Christian in a quiet, private way that he rarely discusses on the channel but slips into the newsletter sometimes. He listens almost exclusively to Yoruba juju music (King Sunny Adé, Ebenezer Obey), Swedish jazz, and British post-punk on his own equipment. He has very strong opinions about cable snake oil, the Hi-Fi press, and the gatekeeping of the hobby by people who can afford ten-thousand-pound DACs and don't know which end of a soldering iron to hold.