Paul's Posts

What's the old saying? "There's no accounting for personal taste." True enough. Terri and I worked hard on a Tikka Masala recipe we found online. We followed each and every... Read more...

How can they be so different?

Reflecting back on this year's Axpona show I find myself scratching my head about the sound of some rooms. The few times I was able to extract myself from our... Read more...

Microphones or monitors?

Working on polishing our recording skills at Octave Records has often brought new insights into our passion we call HiFi. We know that capturing live acoustic music happens through a... Read more...

Audio elite

The dictionary defines snobbery. "A person who believes that their tastes in a particular area are superior to those of other people." I'd say that certainly sums up some of... Read more...

HiFi virgins

Am I allowed to say that? :) However we want to refer to newbies to our passion, I find that one of the greatest joys of my life is to... Read more...

Big pictures or fine details

We are all different in the way we approach our systems. Take me as an example. I always start with the big picture and work on the details over time.... Read more...

Shock and surprise

Our friend and industry icon, Sandy Gross (Definitive, Golden Ear, Polk) just got his DSMKII and PerfectWave SACD player and wanted me to share his comments about the pair with... Read more...

Hidden impacts

Have you ever seen one of those infra red photographs where everything looks strangely surrealistic? Colors are displayed by their heat readings rather than how they reflect light. We imagine the... Read more...

Crossing wires

When my parents were coming of age, the telephone system used a massive number of patchbays and operators connecting one phone to another. On occasion, they would make the wrong... Read more...

There's not a lot of time left

Today is the 29th of April, which means that Sunday is the last day of the month. Why's that matter? In case you didn't know, tomorrow's the last day to... Read more...

The future is coming

My son, Lon, sent me a few links to something rather amazing. A true 3D billboard. Have a look at how Nike presents itself here: https://youtu.be/N6v7HQiCNiQ. Or, this tiger, here. What's... Read more...

Peaks and dips

No room has flat frequency response. There are always peaks and dips, but one is easier to deal with than the other. Take for example bass frequencies of 100Hz and... Read more...

An Axpona conversation

While at the busy Axpona show, last week, I got the opportunity to be interviewed by a wonderfully tolerant and forgiving person, Joe Currao. As you can see in the... Read more...

The complexity of easy and better

I remember being one of the very first nerds to purchase the world's biggest commercially available hard drive of that day. 40 megabytes. Before hard drives of this size we... Read more...

The HiFi joke

I'm sure you've heard the joke. "Audiophiles buy music to hear their HiFi systems." And sure, there's an element of truth to this: that great recording that drops jaws, the... Read more...

Being in the room

I often describe the desired experience of high end audio as one of live—as if the musicians were captured live. One of our HiFi Family members pointed out a problem... Read more...

Deviating from the script

For a musician to play precisely what Beethoven or Mozart penned takes years of practice. And even then, not everyone can reach that lofty goal. But it is the rare few... Read more...

In or out

One of the great audiophile mysteries seems to revolve around how much to toe-in or out your loudspeakers. I've seen everything from no toe-in to speakers aimed like headphones. How... Read more...

Nothing is the same

Every day is new. It might seem the same: get up, breakfast, go to work, come home, go to bed. But that sameness is just an illusion. Each and every... Read more...

Hear the difference

I have, on occasion, riffed on the importance of mixing and the equipment it is performed on. After a recording's been made the next step is to mix that recording. Because... Read more...

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