Do vintage speakers degrade?
We know that older stereo equipment gets worse with age and capacitors have to be replaced among other things, but how about speakers? Do they age?
Ohms Law
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Recent Episodes
How is volume controlled with HDMI?
How can your laptop as well as your receiver control the master volume when using HDMI?
Can the sweet spot be widened?
If your stereo system has a narrow sweet spot what can be done to widen it? Paul helps this viewer get a bigger soundstage and widens the sweet spot.
What is High-End Audio?
What exactly is high end audio and why do we refer to it as such? Is it that the equipment is expensive or that the practitioners are more focused or obsessed?
Why do headphones have better frequency response than speakers?
Loudspeakers don’t come close to offering the full frequency range that headphones do. Why is that?
How does power factor affect audio?
Most stereo equipment does bad things to our home’s power lines. How do these problems affect sound quality and what can we do about them?
Using stereo speakers for movies
Stereo speakers were designed for music and no optimized for home theater. Is it a sin to use them for both?
Can you plug headphones directly into an amplifier?
This viewer has been told to plug their headphones directly into their power amplifier for best sound. Is that good or bad advice and why?
The differences between moving coil and magnet cartridges
Which sounds better on vinyl playback? Moving magnet or moving coil cartridges? Paul explains them both so we have a clear idea.
How can one speaker driver reproduce multiple frequencies?
It seems next to impossible that a single speaker driver can simultaneously reproduce so many frequencies. How does that work?