Paul's Posts

When we started PS Audio in the early 1970s there was no such thing as a remote controlled volume. No, we had to get off our lard butts and adjust... Read more...

Nothing's free

Following a recent 10-day road trip from our home in Boulder out to California and back, I gained five pounds while snacking in the car and tolerating restaurant food. Now,... Read more...

Argan oil and pumpkin

Terri's in charge of household supplies. That's a good thing. Were it me I'd likely just buy whatever was on sale. As I am washing my hands I notice her... Read more...

Viennese cello ensemble 5 + 1

I am grateful for my reader's suggestions of what to listen to and watch. Those recommendations vary from lighthearted to deathly serious and everything in between. Thank you. Once in... Read more...

Audio sensitivities

Even as a kid I never bought the premise behind Hans Christian Anderson's story, The Princess, and the Pea. Just a bit too far fetched for my young engineering brain... Read more...

Working Up Or Down

We’re all different yet so similar. Take the way I assemble a system. When I first start a project, whether building a stereo rig or adding a new source, I... Read more...

Otis Taylor

Not only is world-famous musician Otis Taylor our friend and neighbor, but he's also headlining Octave Record's latest release. Hey Joe Opus | Red Meat has been called by the... Read more...

Audio Taboos And Sacred Rituals

There are certain audio taboos we’re loathed to violate. High atop my list would be plants atop speakers. (But it behooves us to be diplomats if we’d like not to... Read more...

The overshadowing dilemma

There are abundant chestnuts that cover today's subject. Perhaps the best is not being able to see the forest for the trees. When we're so involved in the details we... Read more...

Quick vs. slow

Our YouTube channel has more than 120,000 subscribers and boy do they like to comment on my daily videos. Which is great because, for the most part, comments made are... Read more...

Moving Forward

When Stereophile Magazine awarded Stellar Phono its coveted Analog Product of the Year award we were, of course, ecstatic. What an honor. That award got me thinking about the near-impossible job of... Read more...

Analog product of the year

"Wow!" That's about all I could say when I learned PS Audio's Stellar Phono Preamplifier had been named by the editors at Stereophile Magazine as their Analog Product of the... Read more...

Adjectives vs. nouns

Near the end of summer Terri and I decided one way to get out of the house without worrying too much about being unsafe was to take advantage of Boulder's... Read more...

The character assassination of salt

We generally associate salt with unessential nice-to-have seasonings, condiments, and food enhancers. I would argue salt is instead a critical ingredient. Salt fundamentally changes food. It denatures the rigid structure... Read more...

Retail therapy

Color me appreciative of learning a new lexicon of terms, chief among them Covid-fatigue, and retail therapy. Laugh at my naivety if you will. Truth is, I don't get out... Read more...

Discrimination

All distortions are not created equally despite the fact we're told we should strive to have none. For example, harmonic is less objectionable than intermodulation, but if one simply weighs... Read more...

The illusion of fixed

Standing atop Flagstaff mountain, one of the highest points in Boulder Colorado, I feel anchored. Immovable. And yet I am intellectually aware that is but an illusion. That I am... Read more...

Tunnel lights

There's the old joke that one hopes the light at the end of the tunnel isn't an approaching train (something that actually happened to me and my son Sean once,... Read more...

Uncovering secrets

As a young lad, I remember staring at my grandfather's fireplace mantle where sat a majestic ship in a bottle. It was a three-mast schooner with big billowing white sails... Read more...

Tinkering

One hundred years ago a tinker was a traveling craftsman skilled in the art of metal repair. He would be invited into homes to repair eating utensils and small metal... Read more...

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