Paul's Posts

Isn't it interesting how each of us chooses to spend our time? Just yesterday I spent the better part of an entire beautiful summer's day recording in my backyard Ask... Read more...

Speaker placement

There's perhaps nothing more important than speaker placement. Where those two boxes sit in the room vs. where you the listener sits, largely determines how your music sounds. And here's... Read more...

Dehydrated water

I've got a great idea of how to make a million bucks. Hire a packaging firm to come up with a sexy looking bottle with a great logo and a... Read more...

Beware the measurements

For readers of this blog, it will come as no surprise my thoughts and attitudes on measurements of audio equipment. Yes, measurements are important, but only when in concert with... Read more...

Not quite Hollywood

I was rummaging through some notes and discovered today was an anniversary of sorts. Ten years ago we released PS Audio first, and only, epic film in 5.1 surround sound,... Read more...

The new live

With intimate gatherings between strangers a bad idea for quite some time to come, we've had to figure out ways we can still share music together. One way is through... Read more...

Out of Thin Air

Some projects take a lot longer than others. The good ones. The great ones. They take more time. On March 14th of 2019, nearly a year after we first started... Read more...

Dime a dozen

The thing about ideas and lofty goals is how easy they are to generate and how hard they are to realize. While it's true that great things come from great... Read more...

Musical truth

I ramble on a lot about the sound of live music. But I think perhaps that's not the best way to describe what I am attempting to convey. Perhaps a... Read more...

Swimming with the current

If yesterday's post about riding round and round on a carousel pointed out a potential lack of forward progress, then today's post about resistance might come in handy. We want... Read more...

On a carousel

Remember the old Hollie's hit, On a Carousel? They were one of my favorite groups and, when Graham Nash left the Hollies to join Steven Stills and David Crosby, I... Read more...

Tweaking vs. tuning

There comes a point in our stereo journey where we have to decide whether it's best to tweak or tune. By that I mean we can embellish upon what we... Read more...

Which is it?

I am guessing most of you have seen this optical illusion before. Viewed with one set of eyes it's a duck, but stared at long enough it becomes a rabbit.... Read more...

Adjusting your reference

I suppose we're all different but, for me, when I walk into a room where music is playing on an unfamiliar system I can instantly tell whether or not it... Read more...

Synthetic music

Before the advent of home music reproduction systems, the only way to listen to music was live. In fact, just about any form of entertainment—reading, theater, and music—was live. People... Read more...

The unremarkable

With all of today's ballyhoo about miracle cures, vaccines, wonder drugs, and whatever amazing things they're cooking up for us next, sometimes it's the littlest unmentioned things that really make... Read more...

Telephones to symphonies

We take for granted our ability to bring an entire symphony orchestra into our living room. We're not arguing over whether we can or cannot invite the CSO over to... Read more...

Little Mozart

When 6-year-old Wolfgang Mozart performed at the court of Bavaria in Munich, he was an instant hit—a child prodigy who could tickle the ivories better than many adults. Of course,... Read more...

Rethinking what's normal

For all of my life, I have never thought of restaurants as anything but places you go to get served and have someone else cook your meal and wash the... Read more...

How to buy a speaker

I cannot keep track of how many times we're asked—begged sometimes—for help choosing which speaker to match with our equipment. And often, not even our equipment, just "how do I... Read more...

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