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A matter of degree
Now that PS Audio has moved across the street to our new facilities our old home is vacant. We've got to search for a new tenant to lease the space....
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Paper tigers
There are perhaps as many ways to design a new product as there are new products. Our process is likely unique enough to warrant a few words. When we start...
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When is too much enough?
I am often asked if a certain this or a certain that is overkill. "I have a small room, would a subwoofer be overkill?" I am tempted to turn the...
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Right tool, right job
You can make almost anything work. Getting things to work right is a bigger challenge. Take for example a Power Plant AC regenerator. We'd love to use Class D amplifier...
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Acts of kindness
The greatest acts of kindness seem to come from unexpected sources. Let me tell you a little story. When I was a young Groot I was pretty insecure. Sucking my...
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Audiophile rating system
While answering a customer's question about matching amps to speakers an old memory popped into my head. The industry's effort to craft an audiophile rating system. It was a few...
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Hit and run
From my upcoming memoir 99% True. It all started innocently enough on a lazy Saturday afternoon. My new best friend David—a dark-haired, athletic, alpha male transplant from Dallas—helped me prepare...
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A quiet revolution
My father Don was one of the few in our neighborhood that had an actual sound system. It was a cobbled together group of separates: Rek-O-Kut turntable, Stromberg Carlson electronics,...
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Quadraphonic sound
The years 1973 through 1975 saw great changes: our first major recession since World War II and hifi manufacturers declaring two-channel audio wasn't enough—we needed to double our sound systems....
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Attack of the Floyd
It was a warm, German, summer's evening in May 1972. Terri and I were in reserved seating, perched above a sea of thousands of stoned, excited, and anxious concert goers....
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Moving update
Our company has officially moved across the street and we now have a new address: 4865 Sterling. Engineering, admin, and sales moved last week. This week is production and warehouse...
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Too much?
The race for dynamic range in the recording industry is over. We won. At the beginning of the 20th century the first sound recordings achieved about 15dB of dynamic range....
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Cover up
I was never quite sure why this was a thing back in the 60s but instead of guys taking showers my classmates seemed to like the idea of applying cologne...
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Sensing the right thing
A servo system is a generic name that has many meanings depending on who is using it. To me, a servo woofer system involves a motional feedback element capable of...
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Laser focus
The sharper our focus the narrower our view. We often miss seeing the forest because we're focused on a single leaf. More than once I have been so pleased with...
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Walsh tweeter
I remember with great clarity my first meeting with Infinity founder Arnie Nudell after he left the company. My friend and TAS publisher, Harry Pearson, had called me out of...
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Trusting our feelings
Because I cannot remember whether to feed a cold or feed a fever I just feed them both and wind up feeling better. Maybe it's because I like to eat,...
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Fads
It's always difficult to know when the next great thing is a fad or something with staying power: Pet rocks, Frisbees, waterbeds, pogo sticks, Crocks, CD green pens, Quadraphonic sound....
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The Rule of 10
If we cannot hear above 20kHz why do engineers insist on building amplifiers with ever higher bandwidths? While I can't tell you why designers other than our own like to...
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We're in the news!
PS Audio has long focused on community outreach. As far back as the late 1970s, we were publishing a free set of pamphlets called the Tech Series where we explained...
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