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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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Focusing
Recently I've shared a few stories with you of our history over the last 50 years—half a century of making audio equipment. There are a lot of stories, some I covered in...
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Logos
50 years ago, in 1974, Stan Warren knocked on my door. It was one week after he first listened to the phono preamplifier I had designed for the local radio...
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Headroom
Having enough room inside a building so that even tall people don't hit their heads is a wonderful idea. Especially if you are tall. Doesn't matter much if you're short....
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Obedience
Though we've been through this before I think it's always good to hit the refresh button from time to time. Loudspeakers are an obedient lot. They respond in exactly the...
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Enthusiast vs. Phile
What's the difference between and Audio Enthusiast and an Audiophile? Technically, not a lot—we're all here to enjoy music and high end audio, to have fun—but this comment I received...
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An inside view
Casual listening, whether in the car or in your home, never gives us the chance to listen inside the music. That is a rare treat afforded only to those of us...
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Magnitude differences
Here's a thought experiment for you. Take your favorite set of electronics: perhaps a BHK preamp and amp with a DirectStream DAC and all interconnected with Audioquest Dragons. For loudspeakers, we'll...
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