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Pigeonholed
One of my readers reminded me that I don't like either electrostats or vacuum tube output stages. Funny thing is, it isn't true. There was a period in my life...
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Comments section
I am going to venture a guess that while most people reading my daily posts enjoy their content, more read them for the lively banter they generate. It seems the...
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Poke the box
My friend, Seth, wrote a book called Poke the Box. It's well worth the short read. In it, he argues that progress, real progress, happens when we move outside our...
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Opening up
If we're lucky, we learn something every day. While auditioning with the artist a new set of Octave record mixes we asked them to tell us which of the two...
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truisms
It's often tempting to believe that if one thing is true then ergo, something else must also be true. Take for example a system that excels at reproducing the sound...
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Is it good enough?
I am often asked if a particular piece of equipment is "good enough". Though this is a great question it's often hard to answer. The problem is defining the boundaries....
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FoxFeather
For those who have yet to hear about Octave's latest release, The Nature of Things by FoxFeather, let me be the first to tell you about it. FoxFeather is two...
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Adding capacitors
For the last post in this impromptu series let's look at my goal of somehow increasing the size of power supply capacitors within a unit connected to a Power Plant....
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Peak demand
In yesterday's post, I said that today we'd discuss how to increase the size of the power supply capacitors inside connected equipment. A tall order, indeed, but I got sidetracked....
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The home stretch
In yesterday's post, we learned that our homes present an impedance to our equipment of about 1Ω. This matters, as you can imagine, because when we try and drive a...
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The free lunch counter
In yesterday's post, we learned that to effectively lower impedance we need to add energy. That's what a power amplifier does and what a passive power conditioner cannot do. In...
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Shortening wire length
In yesterday's post, we posed the question of what might happen if we were to lower or even eliminate the impedance inherent in the AC power wires feeding our home....
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The pass through chain
In yesterday's post, I gave a bit of background on our path at PS Audio of increasing power transformer sizing. Quite by accident, we had found that oversizing the power...
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External cures
From as early as 1980 it had been clear to us that the bigger the power transformer the better the sound—a fact that at first didn't make a whole lot...
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Virtual updates
In the late 1990s, at the beginning of our work on AC regeneration that became the Power Plant, one of our reasons for getting involved in the first place was...
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Miracle cures
While standing in the supermarket checkout line I couldn't help but notice the splashy magazine headline. "Lose 13" off your waist in 1 week". The only way in 1 week...
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Amateur Audiophiles
One of the reasons I wrote The Audiophile’s Guide was to help fix the biggest problem in high-end audio systems. The one most of us take for granted, yet never master. Setup....
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Audiophile Lexicon
Every special interest, hobby, or endeavor has its own words. Stamp collectors covet their “prexies,” “speedies” and “Zepps” and coin collectors, their “cuds,” “red books” and “wire rims.” What seems...
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Judging Success
I wonder if it’s possible to measure a person’s judgment. I suspect not. We might be able to keep score: based on judgment, how many times has one gotten the expected results?...
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Systems
Each of us produces a liter of mucus per day. Snot, actually, and we use it to keep our esophageal system working smoothly. And here’s the thing, despite the fact...
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