Paul's Posts

Faced with two choices for chips, one with sea salt the other with just ordinary salt, I will always choose the former. I have no idea if sea salt is... Read more...

Personality traits

All amplifiers have personalities—sonic traits that distinguish one from the other. We choose our power amps first to handle the loads our speakers demand followed closely by how they sound.... Read more...

Edge case engineering

When we start a new design we target the mainstream: the ideal user who connects it up turns it on and gets what they expect. That's what's supposed to happen... Read more...

Selling equipment

Most of us buy and sell a lot of equipment over a lifetime. It seems to be in our DNA to keep our gear up to date, to try out... Read more...

Recommendations

One of the primary motivators for our launch of PS Audio speakers is a sad but simple truth. There are so few speakers we can recommend in good faith. This... Read more...

No real reference

Wandering the halls of an audio show it's always stunning to me how different the same music sounds. How can we say there exists a reference? If we're so bold... Read more...

It's not for you

When I first started on my quest for better sound I gravitated towards electrostatic loudspeakers. These had the clarity and see through qualities I had never heard before and I... Read more...

Nothing new

Yesterday we spoke of skill. Today we'll look at technology and its role in building products. Can old technology ever be exciting? To make a great loudspeaker is it necessary... Read more...

Trusting skill

I wonder why it seems so hard for some people to trust skill. If a designer can carve out a result we hope for without benefit of scientific rigor or... Read more...

Mids and tweets

Designing loudspeakers is as much art as it is science. Over the many decades I worked with Infinity founder Arnie Nudell I was always impressed by the combination of a... Read more...

Midrange bloom

Comparing the sound of two full-range loudspeakers systems can only get you so far. You can tell they are different but unless those differences are narrowed to only a few... Read more...

The learning funnel

My post about mavens got me to thinking about how our learning curve funnels from the big to the small. We start with a big idea or project and over... Read more...

Micro or Macro Maven?

I am a wholesale swap kind of guy. If something isn't performing the way I want I'd sooner move it along and get another. Out with the old and in... Read more...

Gilding lilies

If you own a Toyota Prius upgrading its tires to the racing variety isn't going to turn it into a Tesla. Nor would swapping tires with the Prius significantly alter... Read more...

How names hurt us

When we name something we forever relegate it to a category. It's why caviar can be both a delicacy and fish bait depending on its title. Digital audio is very... Read more...

Remembering the good stuff

Our memories are kind to what actually happened in the past. For whatever reason, we tend to ignore the pain and detritus of days gone by in favor of fondness... Read more...

Cats and stereos

Cats have always loved our products. Not because they're qualified listeners that appreciate the fine sounds PS products produce, but because of our equipment's heat. Cats love nothing more than... Read more...

Tolerating extremes

One of the more fascinating speakers I have heard is the MBL Radialstrahler, an expensive full range loudspeaker that pushes air with pulsating "balloons" (flexible metallic spheres) driven by the... Read more...

Fountain of purity

The Macrobians of the 5th century BC were said to be the tallest, most handsome and long-lived people to have ever populated the Earth. Your average Macrobian was said to... Read more...

All or nothing

A while back I posted a video on holographic imaging and managed to ruffle a few feathers. Since my words seem to routinely tousle feathers it is perhaps unclear why... Read more...

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