Paul's Posts

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...

How much has changed?

We often reminisce about the good old days. You remember. Back when there were only 3 networks on TV and the news had to be factual and without commercials, when predatory... Read more...

Saying goodbye to an old friend

For those of you having read my memoirs, 99% True, you're likely to remember my telling of the story with my first encounter with the incredible, Infinity IRSIII loudspeakers. It's... Read more...

But wait. There's more!

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... Read more...

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... Read more...

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... Read more...

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... Read more...

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... Read more...

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... Read more...

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"!... Read more...

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