Paul's Posts

Regenerating vs. conditioning
Regenerating vs. conditioning
There is a fundamental difference between purifying water through boiling and distillation vs. merely filtering it. The first fundamentally alters the source while the second just modifies it. Of course,... Read more...
The joy of the unexpected
The joy of the unexpected
Before astronomer Edwin Hubble's 1929 bombshell proof that the universe was expanding, its fixed relationships were unquestioned. Even Einstein resisted the notion of an expanding universe despite the fact his... Read more...
More than one way
More than one way
While I am not into skinning cats, there's always more than one way to get where you need to go. Take woofers as an example. Years ago, Arnie Nudell, Bascom... Read more...
Happiness Is …
Happiness Is …
According to John Lennon, it was a warm gun. If you ask me, it’s elevating the performance of my stereo system with a new piece of kit. There’s just such... Read more...
The cost of a soundstage
The cost of a soundstage
Visitors to PS Audio often walk away from Music Room 2 with their jaws still open. Following a recent visit, Karel Osten wrote to me: "I know you have described... Read more...
Recommended music
Recommended music
When we flip through some of the more mainstream streaming services like Netflix, Pandora, Spotify, and Apple Music, we're often not surprised when they make recommendations to us that fit... Read more...
Celebrating differences
Celebrating differences
On the one hand, we're mostly interested in sameness. Reading a great product review inspires us to obtain exactly what the reviewer had in their listening room. On the other... Read more...
Sameness
Sameness
Is it possible to produce identical sounding products? Can we assume that a new DirectStream DAC sounds the same as every other DirectStream DAC? I would suggest no. Just like... Read more...
Diffuse or absorb?
Diffuse or absorb?
We know that our rooms play an important role in sound quality. A 2-channel system that performs to spectacular levels in one room, might sound miserable in another. We're asked... Read more...
Pure sound
Pure sound
The definition of pure is pretty simple: "not mixed or adulterated with any other substance or material." When it comes to purity of sound, we can extrapolate that to mean... Read more...
Silicon
Silicon
We recently celebrated the 150 year anniversary of Dmitri Mendeleyev's Periodic Table of elements. What an astounding achievement to list in order the naturally occurring elements and how they interact... Read more...
Hearing what others do not
Hearing what others do not
Many visitors to Music Room Two comment more on hearing, for the first time, what was formerly hidden from them in the music they are familiar with, from subsonics to... Read more...
Top of the room
Top of the room
One of the most ignored part of the room is right above our heads. The ceiling—often flat, sometimes arched, broken up with timbers, slanted, domed, and everything in between. We... Read more...
Finer bits
Finer bits
There sure is a lot of controversy over bits and depth. One group feels that dividing 96dB of dynamic range into 65, 535 slices (16 bits) is enough, while others... Read more...
Illusion of touch
Illusion of touch
I love turning the lights down low in Music Room 2. All of them. Sitting in the dark. Only the glow of the equipment casts its light into the room.... Read more...
Evidence of absence
Evidence of absence
There's a famous aphorism that really resonates with me. "Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence" Just because traditional audio measurements don't tell us much of anything about how... Read more...
Customize
Customize
It won't be too much longer before we release our newest power amplifier, the Stellar M1200. Hopefully, we'll be able to unveil this beauty in March. When engineer Darren Myers... Read more...
Outer vs. inner
Outer vs. inner
How important is the outer casework of your equipment? For me, it matters a great deal. I want the outside to reflect what's inside. And yet I can just as... Read more...
Resolving speakers
Resolving speakers
Loudspeakers come in all flavors and sizes. In fact, I cannot think of another product category in high-end audio that comes close to the variety found in these sound producing... Read more...
Bright side
Bright side
Looking on the bright side seems socially acceptable while listening on the bright side is to be avoided. This kind of makes sense since we tolerate optimists but run from... Read more...
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