Paul's Posts

It's amazing that stereo speakers work at all. Two different sound sources spaced apart by a few feet attempting to maintain separation. One has left channel-only information while the other... Read more...

Likely outcomes

Engineers are like doctors. They mostly spout facts and figures and answer specific questions with specific answers—helpful if that's what you are looking for, but rarely do they give you... Read more...

Seeing through new eyes

With every piece of new information I receive, I see the world in a slightly different light, as if through new eyes. I assume we're all the same. When we... Read more...

Music lovers and audiophiles

If audiophiles are music lovers, how come most music lovers aren't audiophiles? I guess a love of music doesn't somehow automatically equate to a love of listening to it over... Read more...

Does distortion matter?

If we have two amplifiers under consideration, and one has twice the THD as the other, does that matter? Would we choose one over the other because of its distortion... Read more...

Parts matter

Of all the things we do at PS Audio, perhaps what drives some people crazy more than anything is our insistence that parts matter to sound quality. No one would... Read more...

Simple and natural

There are literally millions of tracks we can use to evaluate our stereo system setups, yet most wouldn't be of much help. Without some form of acoustic reference material, it's... Read more...

Myth busting

Just about everything in our lives goes back to a story living in our heads. Perhaps it's the story of your childhood, or maybe how you learned to drive, or... Read more...

Becoming a statistic

We're all a statistic somewhere: a number, one of many that someone, somewhere, keeps track of. Maybe you're one of X thousand digital audio subscribers, or perhaps you're among the... Read more...

The perfect room

The perfect room for audio playback is called a headphone. With headphones, we suffer no added insults to what's recorded on our discs or streamed on our systems. Yet, headphones... Read more...

Is burn in real?

I had to chuckle to myself. Sitting in our weekly meeting, where production engineers meet with design engineers, the topic of discussion was how to build a new burn-in rack... Read more...

In search of better

If we're buying a new amplifier we expect to pay a higher price for more: features, power, energy storage, damping factor. On the flip side, we're equally comfortable paying a... Read more...

Dammed If You Do, Dammed If…

PS Audio has always prided itself on building high value musically honest products. We pore thousands of hours into squeezing out every last drop of performance possible in our products,... Read more...

Confessions Of An Audiophile

When I started to write my memoir, 99% True, it’s original working title was Confessions of an Audiophile. I figured it’d be a tell-all book about the HiFi industry and its people.... Read more...

Playing By The Rules

Which is correct? Play by the rules if you want to win. Rules are meant to be broken. I suppose this question can only be answered when put in the... Read more...

Openness

Few of us want to be left in the dark. We like to be in the know and get the inside scoop. But often, that means we’re at the beginning... Read more...

Hearing what you want to hear

We sometimes front-load our expectations into what we believe people will say or what a system should sound like. I can't count the number of times I've walked into a... Read more...

Hearing What We Cannot Hear

As a design team, we work hard at extending our amplification product’s bandwidth beyond that which humans can hear. We do that because it sounds better: more open, extended, transparent.... Read more...

Basic Decisions

One of the more difficult choices when assembling a reference audio chain is answering the most basic of questions. What’s it for? It’s rare we ask ourselves this basic question... Read more...

Audio Shows

This April’s Chicago’s Axpona audio show seems far off in the future. Yet, we’re already planning for it. My wife, Terri, runs our shows and she’s already busy arranging all... Read more...

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