Paul's Posts

In yesterday's post I told the story of how we jumped into digital audio by replacing the analog output stage of a CD player. Off the shelf, Sony and Philips... Read more...

Starting from scratch

In early foot races, a line was scratched into the ground to mark the starting point for the runners. All participants began the race from this "scratch" line, ensuring that... Read more...

Hand crafting

Few (if any) of us went down to the local electronics store, grabbed an off the shelf receiver and matching speakers and called it a high-end system. In fact, for... Read more...

Greener grass

You know the old saying about the color of grass on the other side? It's a snarky saying suggesting that once you get to the other side the color's not... Read more...

DAC outs

I have been pretty vocal about the importance of the DAC's output stage. In fact, I have not been shy suggesting it is the most important sonic element in a... Read more...

The dawn of imaging

Back in the early 1970s, when I first began this long audio journey, there was no mention of the soundstage or image of a stereo system. Music was attached to the... Read more...

Hybrids

Boysenberries and Labradoodles are manufactured hybrids. Before someone got the wild hair to combine a blackberry, raspberry, and loganberry we did not have the tasty fruit—not to mention how before that fateful... Read more...

All knowing

I love that some folks think that because we've been building high-performance audio equipment for the past 50 years that we would basically know everyone and everything there is to... Read more...

Hard headed thinking

I recently received a long and detailed description of why digital cannot work as well as the "real thing", analog. In that description the writer posits that because digital is... Read more...

Courtesy cables

I've been thinking. (God help us is the common refrain when they hear me utter those words). For decades now we've been including a "courtesy power cable" with every product we... Read more...

Recipes

When we think of building something—anything, from baking a cake to designing a new preamplifier, we typically start with a recipe. A recipe is a set of instructions that detail... Read more...

Containers

If I decide to enjoy a beer it is always served from an ice cold glass and never consumed directly out of the bottle. In fact, if there is no glass... Read more...

Guideposts

How many times have I been disappointed by following someone else's unqualified advice? "My favorite restaurant is...." "Best movie I have ever seen...." "Most revealing speakers I have ever heard..."... Read more...

How big?

How big an image is too big? If the soundstage exceeds to limits of your speakers, does that qualify as bigger than life? Or, does it depend on the music?... Read more...

An amp's sound

We talk a great deal about the sound of an amplifier: warm, big, thin, weak, transparent, musical. Truth is, what we're hoping for is no sound at all. Not the... Read more...

Magical moments

Summers are a delight in Colorado. They are warm and dry with a fluff of white clouds floating against the deep blue sky. Got home from PS Audio at about... Read more...

Controlling the tone

Remember back when we had controls for tonal balance? Bass, treble and sometimes even midrange. I recall several integrateds from high-end manufacturers that sported a full 5-band graphic equalizer. This... Read more...

The great reveal

One of the conundrums of high end audio is its revealing nature. The better the system the more obvious both the flaws and wonders of a recording. We sometimes refer... Read more...

How far have we come?

I was upstairs in the sales office yesterday rummaging around through our PS museum when I happened up one of our best selling preamplifiers of all time, the PSIV, circa... Read more...

Aliens

David, one of our HiFi Family members, had a question about digital cables. It was one I hear all the time. Given that my unit is said to be galvanically... Read more...

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