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Thanks for the dozens of kind notes letting me know you appreciated the mini series on the MCA. I'll work on telling more in depth stories about the development of...
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The MCA chrome job
After all my head banging and work to finally figure out the simplest of solutions to building a low noise, high speed moving coil amplifier, I finally had a circuit...
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From obvious to aha!
I don't know about you, but in my life I have discovered that in order to move forward past a seemingly insurmountable problem there was a requisite amount of time...
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The problem with obvious
How many times have I been led down the path of the obvious only to discover all the detours I should have been paying attention to? No doubt more times...
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False summit
In yesterday's post we had finally discovered a magical transistor family that would soon become the standard devices in all our products. The Motorola MPS 8099/8599. This low cost transistor...
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A most unusual suspect
In our ongoing posts about the design of the original PS Audio Moving Coil Preamplifier, a small box designed as a standalone step up amplifier to raise the output level...
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Side effects
Why did the engineer break up with his girlfriend? Because he was always trying to find the "next great thing," but she just wanted to settle for a "stable relationship"!...
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Building the impossible
Engineering can be maddening. Take for example the challenge I faced some 40 years ago. Back then, turntables and vinyl were king. There were no CD players, no personal computers....
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Honeymoons
There's that magical period of time when everything's sweet and positive. The honeymoon. We can enjoy it with our new mates, cars, foods, job, and stereo system. The thrill of...
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Revealing sound?
Putzing around on the website I noticed an older Paul's Post that had a collection of musical tracks that I haven't shared for quite some time. I went back to...
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We're all nuts
Writing my once monthly newsletter last week and I got so many delightfully wonderful and generous responses back. Makes me feel great to be a part of our wonderful HiFi...
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Knife sharpening
A dull expensive knife cuts worse than a sharp cheap knife. And so it goes. When we decide that the cost of something is directly related to its performance we...
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Smart moves
My new engineer, Bob Stadtherr, had come up with a fascinating idea that would potentially solve our big hurdle. He called it the Intelligent Buffer. The problem was the variable speed...
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The intelligent buffer
In yesterday's post we had just met a new and impressively bright engineer, Bob Stadtherr. Already employed at his full time job as chief engineer designing automated light dimmers for...
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Maps and journeys
In our continuing story of the creation of the Digital Lens we're finally at the point where we have a road map of what we want to build. Now it...
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Putting it together
(this is a continuation of our Digital Lens creation story) With clues One and Two in hand I started to form an idea. What about making a separate piece of...
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The order of things
In my continuing saga of how the Digital Lens came into being we've already covered Clue Number One: the shape and quality of the digital output stream. And now we're...
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Timing
They say that in life timing is everything. Arrive late and you might miss out. Too early and you waste your precious time. What about the digital datastream? How important...
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Clue number one
In yesterday's post I had been driven crazy by the remarkable performance improvements of a product that made no sense. A CD transport producing the bits feeding a DAC. What...
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Who's in charge here?
In yesterday's post I wrote about the state of digital audio back in the early 1990s. At that early stage in the technology's development, no one was jumping up and...
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