Paul's Posts

PS Audio's senior loudspeaker designer, Chris Brunhaver, is one of the most knowledgeable people I have ever known. His mastery with respect to loudspeakers, acoustics, and design is, in my... Read more...

Changing minds

Changing a tire makes sense. The car won't go much further on a flat tire. Changing a mind is nearly impossible. Imagine being asked to believe in a different religion,... Read more...

Speaker quality and soundstage

I am often asked if one must have a killer set of speakers in order to experience the wonders of a great soundstage. Fortunately, the answer is no. In fact,... Read more...

Film caps

Capacitors all sound different, especially when they are in the signal path. Now, I didn't write that just to raise the hairs on the backs of engineers who scoff at... Read more...

Is Octave a rebirth?

On occasion I get some really interesting mail, like this from Chris in Ohio: "As a native Clevelander and a long time audiophile, I have always had a thing for... Read more...

The output buffer

Years ago, when Stan and I were first finding our way in the world of high-performance audio we had discovered something most of us already know. Less is more when... Read more...

Simply better

Simpler is better for quite a number of things including, traveling, truth, recipes, and math. But simpler isn't always better for high-performance home audio. Sometimes a bit of complexity does... Read more...

FR30 customer number 2

In yesterday's video, we introduced you to the FR30's first owner, Greg of Illinois. The challenge in that first setup documentary was Greg's smallish listening room. It's 10' x 14'... Read more...

The first delivery of the FR30

This past week found senior loudspeaker designer, Chris Brunhaver, and me dealing with all the fun present day air travel has to offer as we two masked men winged our... Read more...

Adjusting prices

Seems everywhere you look these days prices are on the rise. Gas is approaching $4 a gallon and closer to home, the cost of producing SACDs has gone up. Our... Read more...

Live or reproduced?

Once you hear the real deal it's almost impossible to go back. Such was the experience I had relayed to you in yesterday's Paul's Post. It hadn't taken me long... Read more...

The revelation

In yesterday's post, I posited a gnarly problem. How to rely upon the sound of a speaker in order to achieve the perfect capture. After all, there's no such thing... Read more...

Listening to the source

One of the sticky problems that sometimes keeps me up at night is how to listen to the source. When making a recording of something complex, say a cymbal, we... Read more...

Skill vs. tools

It is always difficult to have to reject the hard work of anyone but, in the long run, it's critical to maintain standards. While auditioning a candidate recording we made... Read more...

The ears have it

It's both fascinating and refreshing to me getting deeper into the recording arts. Like High End Audio, the myths, legends, wisdom, and common knowledge base are a potpourri of fact... Read more...

Foxes and hen houses

There's plenty of good evidence that if we were to permit a fox to guard the proverbial henhouse that very shortly thereafter we'd have an empty house. Perhaps it's the... Read more...

Matching specs

Imagine for a moment two analog gain blocks, each with identical input and output impedance as well as gain. To make our little thought experiment more interesting, let's also imagine... Read more...

Correctness

One of the reasons why we published the Audiophile's Guide discs and book is simple. Getting the system to adhere to an easy to attain standard. Standards are important for... Read more...

How to PO your spouse in one easy lesson

How's that headline for clickbait? Not too bad, eh? :) But, I am serious. A week or so ago I visited engineer Darren Myer's house. Darren's home is an audiophile's... Read more...

Scabaret, higher prices, news

For those of you that support us at Octave Records, you likely noticed our latest release, Hothouse Flower by the trio, Scabaret, is more expensive by $10 for the disc... Read more...

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