Paul's Posts

You've been to the supermarket and stared at row upon row of packaged foods. Each announces how good it is and how much you're going to enjoy it. Kind of... Read more...

Is clean better?

Just because something is cleaner doesn't necessarily mean it's better. You can certainly clean the paint off something and have it look worse. One of my first aha! moments with... Read more...

I liked you right up and until…

People are a funny, fickle lot sometimes. We can turn on and off others in our community as if they had a switch. I had to smile after receiving a... Read more...

Attention does not equal worth

It used to be that when we read about some new thing in the papers or heard about it on the news it actually was newsworthy. A new miracle drug,... Read more...

Adjusting to new worlds

I have now been on this planet for 72 years and in that time I have seen some radical shifts: the Cuban missile standoff, the assassination of our president and... Read more...

The potentiometer preamp

A preamplifier is, as its name implies, an amplifier before an amplifier. Preamps are typically placed between the source and the power amplifier. They select inputs, control volume, and amplify... Read more...

Friend and foe

It's a beautiful sunny day outside, a good day for those of us sequestered at home for an experiment. Take a small pair of bookshelf speakers and plop them down... Read more...

Up notes

We certainly don't want to end on a sour note. In fact, we'd much rather end on an up note. Sound familiar? It is endlessly fascinating to me how we... Read more...

Emotional technology

For my 72nd birthday Terri surprised me with a present she said would be the greatest present I will have ever received. She was right. You're always a bit apprehensive... Read more...

Blocking capacitors

For many, many years we blocked unwanted signals and voltages with capacitors in the signal path. These were appropriately named, blocking capacitors, bits and bobs of circuitry designed to keep... Read more...

Umami

Umami is a word first coined in 1908 by Japanese chemist Kikunae Ikeda to describe the taste of glutamates and nucleotides. It is one of the five basic tastes (together... Read more...

Unique sounds

I am continually in awe of how personal is the world. Look into the sky with the knowledge that only you—not any other human in history—has ever witnessed that combination... Read more...

High-end ketchup

Tomato ketchup is a worldwide staple. It's a sauce that's more often used as a condiment to enhance (some would say cover-up) greasy foods like French fries or hamburgers. Original... Read more...

Seeing is believing

Power Plant regenerators make a noticeable improvement to video screens and projectors. It's a fact we almost never mention to folks because we're 2-channel audio people—but it's a fact, none... Read more...

Same length cables

One of the often asked questions concerns speaker cable lengths. Should they be identical? For some reason, we rarely ask the same question about interconnects. Interconnects feel like a pair... Read more...

Trees falling on deaf ears

Things happen whether we accept them or not, like the old question about trees making noise when they fall. What would happen if we framed the age-old question of measurements... Read more...

In the groove

Listening to live recordings of jazz is pretty high on my list of enjoyable pastimes. You often hear great musicians floundering (just a little) as they search around for the... Read more...

Power calculations

One of the most common questions I cannot answer is about matching power amps to Power Plants. It seems such an obvious question and you'd think the answer would be... Read more...

Confirmations

As audiophiles were under constant criticism from those who haven't gotten the opportunity to experience what we do. It's just part of the landscape. Working recently with a new editor... Read more...

Let's get real

How many among us have true dedicated listening rooms? I'll bet fewer than 1% of a fairly big audience. No, I think most people have their home audio systems in... Read more...

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