Paul's Posts

I have recently had one of the most extraordinary unexpected experiences of my life. When our loudspeaker designer, Chris Brunhaver, invited me to finally hear the production ready version of our newest... Read more...

Lifestyle stereo

When it comes to accelerating from 0-60 my electric car will whoop the pants off nearly every slick looking, fire breathing, gasoline "sports" car made. It just doesn't look like it... Read more...

Starting point

I don't think I have ever seen or heard of anyone simply up and deciding to assemble a high-end audio system out of the blue. I mean, have you? It sounds... Read more...

You cannot outrun progress

Over the past 50 years I have learned an incredible amount about engineering, running a business and building great audio equipment. I think of it like a journey. How did... Read more...

Better than real?

There seems to be a riff circulating around that some folks don't like the sound of some equipment because it sounds too real. "Not everyone wants real," goes their mantra.... Read more...

Amplifying the silence

While it may sound counterintuitive, one of the goals we strive for in high-end audio design is magnifying the quiet areas of music. In the same way a skillful painter uses... Read more...

Emotional measurement

Can we measure an emotional response to music? This was the ultimate question on my short list of impossible measurement challenges but it turns out to be one of the... Read more...

Timbral accuracy

Is it possible to measure timbral accuracy? While frequency response measurements can tell us a lot, they don't fully convey how accurately an audio system reproduces the unique textures and... Read more...

Soundstage

In the realm of high-end audio, the quest to understand and quantify what we hear has been both a passion and a challenge for audiophiles and engineers alike. While we've... Read more...

Proof!

Over the next few days I am going to spend a minute riffing on that which cannot be proven—a subject of constant division between those of us who like to... Read more...

Bubbles

We all live in self imposed bubbles. Yup, even the most open minded and curious among us. We have to. There's just too much going on to be aware of... Read more...

Strategising

In my experience, most of the systems I run into aren't the products of a building strategy. Instead, they are mostly cobbled together over time. I remember back to the... Read more...

Technology versus implementation

In a modern world with a myriad of technology choices available to us engineers, how much does that technology matter as compared to how it is implemented? For instance, we... Read more...

Differing approaches

What's the best way to design a DAC? An amp? A preamp? Clearly, there's no right way because if there were everyone would be doing it. I think there's plenty... Read more...

Look and feel

I like to flatter myself to think I put performance over look and feel. Truth is I would struggle not having both. Despite what I want to believe. Let me... Read more...

The trouble with standards

We are stuck with what we have available to us for interconnects because of standards. We know, for example, that a BNC connector is far superior to an RCA connector.... Read more...

In memoriam

Dammit. Friends and great people should stick around. I guess it's just part of the cycle but that doesn't mean I have to like it or even accept it. My... Read more...

The 99% falacy

I was recently told that in this person's considered opinion, 99% of people hearing for the first time a high-end audio system wouldn't know the difference between that and a pair... Read more...

Front panel controls

I remember well the days when remote controls were unheard of. Televisions didn't have them and certainly stereos didn't either. Which meant that everything from volume to balance had to... Read more...

Turbo charged Tesla

As my readers are no doubt aware I am fascinated by the scams and marketing ploys foisted upon us. The latest came in the form of a postcard announcing we... Read more...

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