Paul's Posts

One doesn’t necessarily have to know the difference between a 4 cylinder and an 8 cylinder engine to appreciate the virtues of a car. But in the broader sense we,... Read more...

Receivers

In the dawn of HiFi, the most popular audio product was the receiver—essentially a radio tuner and power amplifier with a level control. The receiver was how we all listened... Read more...

Velvet blackness

We've likely all experienced the sensation of a blacker background. Perhaps it's a new cable or a software update that did the trick. Or maybe a power conditioner or regenerator... Read more...

Marketing shorthand

In 1888, Robert Gregg invented a new way to write. He called it shorthand, a new means of communication that records the sounds of the speaker, not the English spelling.... Read more...

Standards

A slice of bread is 4.5" wide and typically square in shape. But, why? Our story goes back to the beginnings of the 18th-century when bread loaves were hand formed... Read more...

Short and sweet

Why is short sweet, and simple better? Are we averse to complexity or do we simply object to clutter? When I want to grasp a concept or understand a new... Read more...

Short vs. long

If we have a choice (and we almost always do), we'd prefer short speaker cables to long interconnects. This because passing unimpeded music down a speaker cable into the complex... Read more...

Meta and machines

Three years and thousands of hours into the development of our music server, Octave, and we're still not finished. (But we're getting close). It's not the hardware that's hard it's... Read more...

Originality

There's not much original in this world. In fact, one might go so far as to suggest nothing is original except the Big Bang. We all build upon what has... Read more...

Coils and gauges

A coil of wire is a thing of magic. Pass an AC signal through it and as the frequency rises it gets harder to get through to the other side.... Read more...

Equipment extremes

I would bet most of us have some sort of extremes in our systems: the expensive interconnect, an external clock, isolation feet that cost as much as the product it... Read more...

Just enough to be dangerous

They say a little knowledge goes a long way. They also say having just enough knowledge to get things misunderstood is a danger. Ours is a complicated endeavor. We interact... Read more...

Anthropomorphism

My car is a she and we two have a relationship with each other. Some of my amp choices are brutish thugs, while others have a romantic streak in them.... Read more...

No need to duck

We trust that when we buy a house the doorways are tall enough for us not to have to duck. And for most of us, it's not a problem. But,... Read more...

Rosetta Stone

The Rosetta Stone was discovered in July, 1799 by French soldier Pierre-François Bouchard during the Napoleonic campaign in Egypt. It was the first Ancient Egyptian bilingual text recovered in modern... Read more...

Unexpected pleasures

When engineering handed me the fruits of their 10-month journey to build the Stellar Strata amplifier I was somewhat underwhelmed. It just worked. No bells, no whistles, no fireworks. It... Read more...

Tearing down walls

Innovation is the heart of forward progress. Just redoing the same old tried and true doesn't push the boundaries of what's possible, nor does it move the progress needle in... Read more...

Full size

There was a time in PS Audio's history where we only made little boxes. Our first product, the phono preamplifier, was about half the size of a pack of English... Read more...

Drawing the line

One of the most difficult problems designers face is where to draw the line between vision and desire. A designer's product vision starts out as a pure set of lofty... Read more...

The best seat

When we go to the theater or concert we buy the best seat we can afford. We don't question the fact that a seat closer to the front costs more... Read more...

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