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Closing the loop
Most companies just make gear. We also make music. One of the things I’m proudest of at PS Audio is that we’ve closed the loop. Most audio companies design products...
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Links in the chain
The most important part of high-end audio isn’t gear. It isn't music. It’s people. Every one of us who calls ourselves an audiophile got here somehow. A spark was lit—maybe...
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A final nerding out
Here's our last in this nerding out blathering about timing. If timing doesn’t matter across the internet or your home network, why does it make such a big difference when...
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Timing heresy
As admitted audiophiles, we’re trained to obsess over timing. We spend real money on reclockers, atomic clocks, femto clocks—clocks so precise they’d make NASA jealous. Some of these devices are...
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Timing is everything
...until it doesn't matter. I’ve been babbling a bit about streaming music and how it all works, and here’s something surprising that most folks don’t realize: when music is streamed,...
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Nerding out
In yesterday's post I mentioned that in my experience, using the Qobuz app into the PMG streamer or AirLens sounds a little better than when run through Roon. That bristled...
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Simple experiment
Have you ever tried a simple experiment with streaming? Use a streaming service like Qobuz and listen to your favorite reference track. Now, if you're a Roon or Audirvana user,...
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Surprise!
A great system doesn’t stop surprising you. The first time you hear a high-end system dialed in, it can be either overwhelming or hopefully jaw dropping. Detail, imaging, dynamics—it’s a...
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Bad myths
Digital sound isn’t lifeless. Bad digital is. There’s a long-standing myth in audio that digital equals cold, sterile, and flat. That it strips the life out of music and leaves...
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The elephant in the...
Every room adds its voice to the system. Even perfect ones. No matter how transparent your gear is, or how carefully you set it up, you're not listening to just...
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Harder than it looks
Getting great sound takes time. And skill. And work. You can connect a system and start listening in an afternoon. But that first impression is rarely the final result. High-end...
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Links in the chain
No component lives in isolation—the whole system matters. This is one of the hardest lessons to learn in high-end audio. When something doesn’t sound right, it’s tempting to blame the...
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The last stop
We've been waxing on about streaming for the past few days covering the idea the controller, the iPad or phone you use to discover all about artists and select the...
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The unsung hero
In a streaming audio setup your fancy, schmancy remote is the interface you control and interact with to choose your music. Once your controller picks the music, it’s the renderer...
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Roon? A fancy remote
Most of us are streaming these days, so I thought we’d spend the next few days exploring how it really works. For something so common, streaming remains surprisingly misunderstood—even among...
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A nice bottom end
I’ve never been shy about my love for bass—and our new Foundry F12 subwoofer is a dream come true. We’re launching the F12 near the end of January, and I...
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Starting from scratch
Few people ever get the chance to build a high-end audio system from the ground up. Most systems evolve piece by piece. A new amplifier here, better speakers there, a...
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Imagine that
When I started this journey over 50 years ago, the audiophile gold standard wasn’t imaging—it was tonal balance. Back then, we didn’t talk much about soundstage depth or disappearing speakers....
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The magic act
When I tell newbies to the Listening Lab that what they are looking at is about to disappear, I get a raised eyebrow: the towering loudspeakers, the stack of gear,...
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Decay
Most people hear ‘decay’ and think of a trip to the dentist—but in audio, it's not your teeth that suffer when things go wrong. We spend a lot of time...
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