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Missing the point
I sometimes feel like a lonely preacher in my quest to get every audiophile invested in a subwoofer. The few who pay attention to my sermons write back with effusive...
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Album art
Say what you will about vinyl's good and bad points but it's hard to deny the joy of holding a 12" album cover while you're playing the treasures inside. Album...
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Mistakes matter
One of the more frustrating aspects of product design is the quest to eliminate mistakes and problems. Your team works as hard as it can to squash the bugs, correct...
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Soft Europeans
"Hi Paul, I went to the RMAF last October and found that the European speaker manufacturers products had a soft sounding mid-range presentation. I asked a few of their reps...
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Marking our spot
Marking our spot, staking our claim, drawing lines in the sand. These are all euphemisms for setting boundaries when we build frameworks—and frameworks help us work within structure. My framework...
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Lost in translation
What's buried deep in our heads has to run through a type of translator before coming onto the scene in our consciousness. This translator is controlled by our internal narrator—you...
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Winning formulas
They say bad habits are hard to break but I would suggest good ones are even harder. When we have a winning formula—something that's worked for us time and again—expending...
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The HiFi Family
Since PS Audio's inception in the early 1970s, we have considered our customers family. The HiFi Family seems to us to be the most natural way to interact with the...
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Salt stone
This past Christmas we had a Secret Santa, a practice that was new to me. Everyone buys a present without knowing who the present is for. On Christmas, we present...
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Taming the room
William Shakespeare wanted to tame shrews while I am more interested in rooms. Our plans for the construction of PS Audio's new music rooms were to start with bare walls...
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Double trouble
The vast majority of live music that isn't classical or opera is blasted through PA speakers or on stage amplifiers. Thus, if you really wanted to reproduce the sound of...
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Getting lost
Companies get lost on occasion. Where once their corporate direction was clear something happens to change all that and they head off in a different direction. Sometimes this is a...
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Audio recipes
When well-intentioned designers go too far in any one direction it's usually at the expense of everything else. Remember the THD wars of yesteryear? Some companies worked so hard at...
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Riding the wave
Technology can be thought of as a wave and its users like surfers riding atop its crest. Once you've jumped onboard the wave everything looks to be normal and the...
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Victory
Does the quest for audio nirvana at times feel more like a game with winners and losers than a passion for creating magical moments? Maybe in our own systems, we...
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Uncovering the culprit
Does this sound familiar? You adjust the system volume to where it sounds right only to discover a lack of bass. Up goes the volume level to compensate. Now the...
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Personal pleasures
How exciting it is to be on the hunt for new speakers—a chance to dramatically change the reproduction of music in our homes. Instead of the relatively tiny differences we...
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Setting priorities
Our priorities often influence our focus. If we're intent on setting up a system for one specific quality, such as tonal balance, we tend to focus on that area while...
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Coal to Coltrane
What is electricity? How is it generated? What does it do? Those most basic of questions have been asked for years and a much younger version of myself attempted to...
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The long chain
While admiring one of our PCB for its symmetrical beauty I unexpectedly found myself in awe of its collection of technological miracles bristling off its shiny green surface: resistors, capacitors,...
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