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  1. If it's not personal is it high-end?Most high-end audio systems are very personal because they are hand assembled by the owner. Rarely are any two alike and that's kind of what makes...
  2. What's wrong with the two magazines?In yesterday's post Separating the wheat from the chaff, I mentioned that the retailer is the perfect sorting house - choosing and selling only those products...
  3. How to separate wheat from chaffFor those non-farmers out there (like me) the wheat is the good part and the chaff is the throw away not worthy of eating. So if...
  4. To see or not to see...that is the question from a great article just published on our magazine PS Tracks. Lawrence Schenbeck, our resident musicologist and fellow Audiophile, writes a wonderful...
  5. Why should I have to pay?On the PS Community Forums we've been discussing a new product to serve music and how that product gained some features that not everyone agrees with:...
  6. Here's a whacky ideaWe've been focusing on the importance of the room to a stereo system over the past couple of days. Let's dive a little deeper. Nelson Pass...
  7. Where did they all go?Yesterday's post about rooms and loudspeakerssparked a lot of questions about what diffusors to use and how to place them. Funny thing is, there's really no...
  8. You might find this a bit shocking .....Good speakers in a bad room won't sound as good as bad speakers in a good room. Sorry, I know that's perhaps not something you want...
  9. Is anything ever simple?A great writer once said in a note to his friend: "I apologize for the long letter. I didn't have time to write you a shorter...
  10. What's the value when it's free?Free advice is worth exactly what you paid for it: nothing. But is that true? If I recommend a technique to help your high-end system sound...
  11. How you can tell a servo sub from a slugThere are not many subwoofers out there that have servos running them and that's a shame. A servo is like a little microphone placed right on...
  12. Pet peeves and credibilityI get a lot of SPAM in my inbox. When I go to unsubscribe I sometimes get a notice that my request will be processed in...
  13. Beware the mattress policeYesterday's post Perfectly Legalhad a few of you scratching your heads about being law breakers. If you rip a CD and then sell it or give...