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Endless ideas
Sitting in the Toronto airport on the final leg of our journey home from the Montreal HiFi show I was approached by a fellow by the name of Amir. Turns out...
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A big honor
One of my all time favorite television shows was Mystery Science Theater 3000 hosted by Mike Nelson. Definitely a cult classic for those of you that like such things. In...
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Building dreams
One of the great joys in life is the privilege of playing for someone the big PS Audio reference system in Music Room 3. Watching their eyes light up and...
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I couldn't resist
Here's a statement from a viewer on our YouTube channel. "Virtually every single scientific analysis of premium cables versus average cables has shown that there is no measurable difference. Certainly...
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Same but different
When Stan and I started PS Audio back in 1974 we consisted of nothing more than the two of us. No employees, no helpers, nada. And aside from hand building...
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Consensus
It's very human of us to want to find consensus. This is one of the reasons you and I are here. We're both interested in music and its quality reproduction....
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How old are you?
I seemed to have stopped aging between my 45th and 50th year. Let's call it 45 for discussion purposes. 30 years later, I am still shocked looking in the mirror....
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Pleasure
One of the reasons we were so excited to launch the Aspen line of loudspeakers was a simple problem. Over the past 50 years we've never been able to recommend to...
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A matter of perspective
At Octave Records our recording, mixing, and mastering process are both praised and criticized. Fortunately, we get pretty universal praise for the final outcome, but how we got there is...
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The Montreal show
On Friday, the 22nd, one of my favorite audio shows will open its doors. The Montreal Audio Fest will take place in downtown Montreal. Terri and I are flying in the night...
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Architecture
The basic design of a house falls back on the architect. We can easily envision a two story ranch home with a basement, or perhaps a one level bungalow with...
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First time
I received a wonderfully stimulating question from another 70+ fellow wondering why listening to classics from his youth didn't stimulate him in the same way as back then. The equipment? The...
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Temples of sound
Most of us have our prized stereo systems in our living room or family room. Some, like PS Audio, are fortunate enough to have dedicated listening rooms. A rare handful...
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Questions and answers
The quality of the answer one gets often depends on the quality of the question or request that prompts it. Take AI Chatbots for example. There's an entire new emerging...
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One last thought...
Of course, that's probably never the case as each thought leads to the next but it makes for a good headline. In any case, it occurs to me that as...
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Out of sight out of mind
As we wrap up our little mini series on microphones it occurs to me how little attention we pay to them. Which, if you think about it, is weird. With...
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Essential differences
Yesterday we waxed on about microphone preamplifiers and how important they are to the recording chain. A couple of folks asked me what brands we have that are solid state...
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Microphone preamplifiers
How many of us would argue that the quality of a phono preamplifier doesn't matter? That we would hear little difference between an Amazon special and a Stellar Phono Preamplifier?...
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The chain
In our brief examination of the recording chain front end, the microphone, it's good not to forget what follows the microphone. In the same way a phono cartridge requires a...
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German microphones
You may have noticed that in my brief look at the microphones we use at Octave Records, the two I've focused first on are both German. In fact, the Germans...
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