Paul's Posts

Dr. Bob Odell's power amplifier squashed our best design efforts of that day. It didn't just sound better, it literally stomped the prototype amp Rick and I had labored over.... Read more...

Shoot out

Back in the 1980s, when Infinity founder Arnie Nudell had lived in a beautiful home high atop the barren California hills just outside of Los Angeles, reluctant medical doctor—and excited audio... Read more...

The 200C amplifier

Back in the prehistoric days of PS Audio's history, the 1980s, my friend and mentor, Arnie Nudell of Infinity Loudspeakers introduced me to a new designer by the name of... Read more...

Choosing wisely

Remember in the 1989 Indiana Jones movie The Last Crusade, where the knight quips "He chose poorly" after actor Julian Glover's character disintegrated into dust? That's perhaps a good reason... Read more...

Trade offs

Nothing's perfect. There are always trade offs. Sometimes, the trade offs are worth the price of entry. For example, making the decision to add streaming to your library when formerly... Read more...

Falling in love

There are all kinds of things we can fall in love with: movies, books, people, ideas, lifestyles, equipment. How often has it happened to you where you finally take the... Read more...

Getting it all

How many of us work hard to squeeze every last bit of toothpaste out of the depleted tube? I know I do. Before that sucker goes in the trash I... Read more...

Fingers crossed

I don't believe I was breathing at the moment I flipped the switch to power up my friend's $50K stereo system. No, I am pretty certain I was holding my... Read more...

Big ideas don't always work

Finally. After months of work, lots of thinking, tinkering, designing, and building, I was ready to see if this crazy idea of turning an 1,800 watt (capable) power amplifier into an... Read more...

Doubling down

After having gotten the perfect idea of how to build my own power generating station from engineer and audiophile, Doug Goldberg—connect a sine wave oscillator to an audio power amplifier—the... Read more...

Friends and colleagues

My nutso idea of using an electric motor tied to an electric generator to provide perfectly regulated and pure AC to stereo systems had been shot down within seconds of... Read more...

Crazy ideas

In 1989, a physics geek named Tim Berners-Lee had a problem: sharing documents with his colleagues was cumbersome and inefficient. A paper shuffle. At a time when few people owned... Read more...

Bad getting worse

In yesterday's post I had said that you can't unknow something and boy is that true. Once I had realized the main culprit to holding back the performance of our beloved... Read more...

Ignorance is bliss

Once you know something you can't unknow it. Learning that impedance in the AC line is the enemy of good sound unlocked Pandora's box, unleashing an entirely new set of... Read more...

One way, not the other

Having discovered the importance of lowering the source impedance of the AC feeding a preamplifier or power amplifier, the positives and negatives I was hearing with the early crop of power... Read more...

On the trail

As I mentioned in yesterday's post, I had a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to start from scratch and build what I wanted from the ground up. Start at the beginning of the chain.... Read more...

Dream big

27 years ago, in 1997, I repurchased PS Audio from its owner for $1.00. Clearly, at this price, there wasn't much left of the company. Still, it was our baby... Read more...

1997. New beginnings

When I asked folks to tell me what bit of PS Audio history they'd like to have me tell the story of, one of the most popular was that of how... Read more...

Audio Excellence

Adrian Low, the head audiophile at Toronto's Audio Excellence, and for more years than either of us are likely to want to remember, my friend, posted the most wonderful heart... Read more...

Living in the future

How many of us aren't really here? I don't mean physically, but mentally. Back in the early 1970s, about the time I was moving out of my life as a... Read more...

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