Paul's Posts

When something desirable is scarce its value increases. It's the old supply and demand theory we learned about in school. If more people want something than there is an available... Read more...

Ignoring the obvious

At first glance, it is not clear to us why an oversized power supply sounds better, or one cable sonically outperforms another. This is because not everything is obvious. It... Read more...

Very different vs. right or wrong

Octave Recording artist and trumpeter extraordinaire, Gabriel Mervine, notes near the end of this video that "vinyl sounds different. Very different." In fact, identical master recordings sound very different depending... Read more...

Truth

The author of the Sherlock Holmes Mysteries, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's famous line was, "Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth." And... Read more...

Pillars

At the base of The Statue of Liberty, there is a bronze plaque that in part reads: "Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,... Read more...

Fortune telling

Over my 73 years, I have come to discover I am not very good at foretelling the future. So why is it I put so much credence into worrying about... Read more...

The power of separates

The central appeal of an integrated amplifier is the chance for a designer to maximize the synergy between internal systems: the preamp that best fits the amplifier. Unfortunately, most integrateds... Read more...

Cross wired

When I hear someone suggest that as humans we're all the same I cringe. Thankfully, we are not all the same. Each of us is wired differently than the others.... Read more...

The $35 resistor

I am well aware people in our HiFi Family think were nuts. And, that's ok. Better nuts than boring. When people ask me if parts of identical value but different... Read more...

Vanishing sound

One of the more ironic tasks in HiFi is to make the speakers disappear. Quite a feat of magic for big boxes dominating the room. Yeat, difficult or not, that's... Read more...

Why better?

In yesterday's post about the fluidity of my stereo system, I mentioned upgrading from the amazing BHK300 monoblock amplifiers to the newer BHK600s. More than a few people emailed me... Read more...

Work in progress

How many of us can say we've reached the highest pinnacle we're ever likely to achieve? That where we are and what we're doing is it. Fini, finito, finilizado! I... Read more...

Too wide of a gap

Between a high-performance audiophile system and the casual plop-it-down-and-listen setup, there seems to be a pretty wide gap. Which makes me wonder why there isn't something in the middle. Imagine... Read more...

Change and disruption

With the recent sad announcement of the closure of RMAF and the postponement of AXPONA, it would seem we are entering yet another era, one without mass gatherings. Given the... Read more...

Hard wired

At first thought, it would seem obvious that a hard-wired connection between a digital source and a DAC would have to be better than a wireless connection where multiple steps... Read more...

The Fairy Tale Twist

I was recently having an email conversation with a very nice gentleman who had written me about a subject we're all more than familiar with, the sound of cables. He... Read more...

What's up?

In a nutshell, it seems like everything’s up these days: shipping costs, parts costs, materials, labor. And, to make matters worse, I am certain it's not news that there’s even... Read more...

Paul's annual report

For those fellow backyard gardeners that remember the beginning of the growing season where I stressed about bears, squirrels, pestilence, and poachers, I have good news. Our harvest has been... Read more...

Cat's out of the bag

In case you have yet to see the latest issue of Stereophile Magazine, I wouldn't want you to be the last on the block to know what's going on. In... Read more...

Live fast, die young

Driving down my neighborhood street I saw the headline on today's post emblazoned on the back of a young man's t-shirt. Now, I too was once young and headstrong (today,... Read more...

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