Paul's Posts

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...

Like minded opinions

I value more the opinions of people I am familiar with and trust. A stranger wearing earbuds, telling me it's the best sound they've ever heard, probably isn't going to... Read more...

HMV

More than 100 years ago, at London's 363 Oxford Street, a record shop opened with an interesting title. His Master's Voice. For years, that shop was an iconic staple until its closure in 2019.... Read more...

The sunk cost myth

I am guessing all of us have had to deal with dead end streets. We go down a hopeful road investing our time, funds, hopes, and dreams only to wind up realizing... Read more...

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