Paul's Posts

We're happiest when recordings and systems capture the space as well as the music. Mastering and recording engineer Gus Skinas and I have been playing with microphones as of late... Read more...

Conductor's perspective

Imagine how it must feel to stand in front of one hundred musicians at the ready. You're just slightly elevated by the podium. Music gushes forth in a barrage of... Read more...

Preaching to the choir

It's May 11th and, dammit, yesterday I turned 71 years old. I used to love birthdays. The older I get the less I want to prove anything to anyone. Experience... Read more...

Tip of the iceberg

We got in big trouble with having enough amplifier power in yesterday's post. In a very undemocratic and unfair fashion, we learned it takes crazy amounts of power to double... Read more...

Lightning fast

At the risk of beating this poor horse to death, I thought I'd cover one more servo woofer item. Speed. We don't normally associate woofers with speed. Slow and ponderous,... Read more...

Life's not fair

In my earlier post, I mentioned the emergence of some angst by fellow audiophiles in response to our upcoming AN Series of loudspeakers. The fact that each pair is internally... Read more...

Removing the strain and stress

One of the defining characteristics of our new AN speaker line will be internally amplified servo bass. An accelerometer is mounted to the internal subwoofer and used to quicken the... Read more...

Stacking the deck

In yesterday's post, I offered the two main reasons I wrote my upcoming memoir, 99% True: spreading the word to an unsuspecting public that we audiophiles exist and helping aspiring... Read more...

My two main goals

In yesterday's post of rejection, I spent some time explaining how the book publishing world used to work. Today I am going to explain what happens in this age of... Read more...

Rejection

My upcoming memoir, 99% True, is finally getting to the point of release. According to my publisher, the launch date is now set for Tuesday, June 4th. And in the meantime, I have been learning about modern book publishing and its inner workings. How different than in the past. Would be authors once approached publishers with their manuscripts in the hopes of getting published. Some were able to afford literary agents that would personally approach publishers for a better shot at getting noticed but for the most part, going from... Read more...

Inside looking out

There's a very important picture within each of us, one we believe represents our persona. It's almost always wrong. It's wrong because of the constant conflict within our heads: I... Read more...

List of ingredients

Prepackaged foods list their ingredients so consumers know what they're putting into their bodies. My rule of thumb is not to eat anything I cannot pronounce or if the list... Read more...

They're not instruments

Reader Timothy Price posed an interesting thought: "How many musical instruments project sound in a narrow dispersion? Even a trumpet or better yet a clarinet seem to have fully tonal... Read more...

Stealin' from the best

Artist Pablo Picasso is credited with an old saying. "Good artists copy, great artists steal." Composers routinely lift riffs and melodies from each other. In 1775, at the age of... Read more...

The power of community

Every passion driven enterprise seems to have its community and high-end audio is no different. Members helping other members without much in the way of competition. Our Community Forums are... Read more...

When is it good enough?

Most of us live with good enough for the bulk of our lives. The problem for me is deciding when good enough isn't good enough—when I suspect something's better but... Read more...

Filling a vacuum

When we think up new products sometimes it's because we have a novel idea like the Digital Lens. That's a product/technology that solved a problem most people didn't even know... Read more...

Strawberry red

If you're growing strawberries it's easy to find the ripe ones by their color. Bright red through and through is when the fruit's at its peak and the sugars are... Read more...

Offering opinions

Audio shows are often difficult. When I wander the halls and go into the different rooms as a curious onlooker I'd like to remain anonymous in order to get an... Read more...

Wringing emotions

The finest in music and the arts wring emotions and connects to our inner beings in ways that are hard to imagine living without. If my soul isn't touched for... Read more...

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