Paul's Posts

Some of us focus first on musical truth even if that truth is a bit painful. Others seek musical pleasure even if the presentation isn't all that accurate. Where to draw the... Read more...

The winding journey

How many times have you worked your tail off to understand something new or get something to work, only to find out the answer turned out to be simple? Doh!... Read more...

Foundations and finishing touches

Building a new home is broken down into sections. First, the ground is prepared and the foundations are built. Second, the frame and roof of the structure are erected. Then the real... Read more...

Earned respect

The difference between sports and royal families couldn't be more stark. The first awards hierarchical positions based on merit while the second on birth. In our world, we face a similar... Read more...

Series parallel

If you have a look at this video of the Infinity IRSV's new home, some might be wondering how in the world those 132 drivers are all connected together. It's a... Read more...

The loudness wars

Many of Adele's fans who were hopeful her new album, 30, would have audio quality that matched the wonderfulness of her singing found themselves disappointed. Seems her producers might have... Read more...

Working backwards

What we can say for certain is that over the last 13.5 billion years, and many trillions of galaxies, stars, and planets, we are the only life forms we know of.... Read more...

Absorb or diffuse?

Rooms are the biggest problems we audiophiles face. Without them we'd not have great sound—just listen to an outdoor speaker—but with them we run into all sorts of problems to... Read more...

Getting from here to there

It seems one of the great mysteries is how we get from the 120 volt AC coming out of the wall socket into music playing on our loudspeakers. I was... Read more...

What sways you?

My eyes light up when I get the chance to audition a new piece of kit or circuit concept that enhances the performance of my system. I don't initially focus on... Read more...

Loud and soft

With all the noise on the internet it sure is hard to be heard using the millions of YouTube channels, blogs, websites, forums, news outlets, and online magazines. In an effort... Read more...

Achieving separation

Perhaps one of the greatest mysteries in the art of Hi Fi is how the separation of instruments and voices is manipulated from inside an electronic circuit. There is certainly no... Read more...

Rat's nest

The back of my HiFi system's rack looks like the proverbial rat's nest of cables and cords. It's definitely not something I am proud of but I will own up... Read more...

Simply an opinion

A recent finger wagging poster on YouTube wrote the following: "Everything that's done in the name of hifi should be done with 1: workings 2: stated engineering facts and specifications... Read more...

High octane

I drive an electric car so my experience at the gas pumps is rather limited. That said, I do notice the signs advertising the various prices for different qualities of... Read more...

Emotions meter

Here's an idea. Because we don't have much in the way of equipment to measure the emotional connection of music, we could come up with some innovative tools. For example,... Read more...

All-in-one

If we buy the story that designers know best how to make perfect audio equipment, why is it few among us would purchase an all-in-one system? Could it be the... Read more...

Following the rules

If you follow the rules for crossing the street at a crosswalk, you should be safe unless someone else breaks the rules and mows you down. Their fault. Your loss. I... Read more...

FBI

I suppose that with age comes an OK'ness with being comfortable in one's own skin. Take, for example, how a piece of malicious SPAM could make my day. Perusing through... Read more...

Newsflash

95% of my daily life is made up of the ordinary day to day routine. That's hardly newsworthy. And that's the thing about news. We do not report on the... Read more...

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