Paul's Posts

Imagine the tiny signal coming out of a moving coil phono cartridge: 30,000 to 50,000 times smaller than what comes out of your preamplifier. It has come a very long... Read more...

Boiling Down

Choices, choices, choices. Sometimes it seems a bit daunting when looking at the dizzying array of audio products from which to choose. There are literally hundreds of DACs and amplifiers... Read more...

Time Machines

Wouldn’t it be wild if we could bring some of the early audio pioneers like Emile Berliner, Thomas Edison, Alan Blumlien, or even Alexander Graham Bell into the future? Sit... Read more...

Needles vs. lasers

Sometimes it's instructive to pull our view of the world back and take a broader look. For example, a 30,000 foot view of music reproduction's two core methods: vinyl and... Read more...

Hard Work

The thing about hard work is that it’s only hard when you’re doing it. Once completed, and we take our much needed rest, that hard work lies behind us and... Read more...

Thud

Isn’t it interesting that bass slam and quality comes not from woofers but instead from above? Here’s what I mean by that. If you take a 3-way system like the... Read more...

Woofer madness

I thought it might be fun to see what differences we have between the original Infinity IRSV woofers in Music Room II, vs. the new woofers we replaced them with.... Read more...

Rabbit Ears

Here;’s a bit of nostalgia for you. Remember rabbit ear antennas? When television was king, there were only two ways of getting TV signals into the home. A rooftop antenna... Read more...

A Watched Pot Never Boils

Our perception of reality, of the here and now, of past and future, is relative: time crawls when you watch a clock’s secondhand and speeds past when we’re otherwise occupied.... Read more...

Outrageous

In my post of a few days ago about pop singer Billy Eilish, I received some very anxious emails informing me she's more than just a singer with dark lyrics,... Read more...

Thrill Seeking

Now that PS engineer Chris Brunhaver has rebuilt the Infinity IRS woofer sections in Music Room II, tracks of music that once overloaded the room or underwhelmed the listener are... Read more...

Tricks Of The Trade

Every trade has its tricks. There’s the plumber’s helper, the appliance repairman’s hydraulic lift for pulling out heavy refrigerators, the electrician’s snake for pulling wires through walls, the auto mechanics... Read more...

Recording In A Bedroom

In our January Newsletter, which you can read here, I printed a story about a rising star, 18-year-old pop singer Billie Eilish, who swept the Grammys for her album When we all fall... Read more...

Tails Wagging Dogs

It’s sometimes good to take a step back and widen our views because it’s easy to get mired in the classic tail wagging the dog syndrome. Take for example our... Read more...

Made in USA

There is a city in Japan that is located on the small island of Kyushu in the Ōita Prefecture. Its name is Usa. Decades ago, when America was obsessed with... Read more...

How To Place Your Seat

Where you sit, relative to your speakers, can make a huge difference in performance. For those fortunate enough to have the luxury of moving their listening position, it’s a good... Read more...

Stratospheric Synergy

Most products we think of as integrateds are compromised. They’re typically collections of known technology cobbled together in one chassis and made to work as well together as is possible.... Read more...

Cherry Picking Science

Our science has extended life, fed billions, eliminated diseases, healed infections, connected the world, gotten us into space, and brought the greatest musical performances into our homes at the touch... Read more...

Big changes

Recent visitors to Music Room 2 may have noticed a rattling noise in the left channel of the IRSV system on bass notes. The 35-year-old woofers in the Infinity IRSV... Read more...

Audible cues

Over years of evaluating differences in audio equipment, one accumulates an audible library of sonic cues from which to judge differences. Cues such as harmonic overtones, extended decay, room modes... Read more...

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