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<p>I know this story of my first sale of a stereo product is taking a number of twists and turns and please forgive me, today’s will be even a bigger turn. *Perhaps it will be the size of a U turn today. *But in the end it all pans out and makes sense. *I promise.</p> <p>I had completed the...

<p>In <a title="My first sale" href="http://www.pstracks.com/pauls-posts/my-first-sale/12885/">yesterday’s post*</a>I relayed the story of being banned from playing the kind of music I liked on the family stereo. *Not to be deterred, I set out to build my own stereo system so I could close the...

<p>History does have a way of sorting things out.</p> <p>By the time Paul Hindemith died, the so-called “serious music” world—or at least its living, creative branch—had been seduced by young lions from the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darmstadt_School" target="_blank">Darmstadt summer...

<p>I designed, built and sold my first stereo system when I was 17 years old, but at the time I had no intention of making that sale. *No, the sale was one of the worst moments of my young life. *The story unfolds.</p> <p>My father had built his own stereo system for the family home. *As the...

<p>How the sound of <a title="Round of applause" href="http://www.pstracks.com/pauls-posts/round-of-applause/12873/">clapping</a> can be so hard for an amplifier to properly reproduce when music should be ultimate challenge. *And equally hard to imagine how the noise between FM radio stations...

<p>Dave Paananen, who directs our engineering, and I were in Music Room One auditioning a couple of changes to circuitry recently.</p> <p>We were trying to figure out which, of several types of op amps, were more musically correct. *Of course we do this by simply gain matching and then listening...

<p>And continuing our thought from <a href="http://www.pstracks.com/pauls-posts/12856/12856/" target="_blank">yesterday’s post</a>, only this time in reverse, isn’t it obvious that just because something has all the right stuff it doesn’t necessarily qualify as great itself? *And doesn’t this...

<p>I am mindlessly working out at the gym on the elliptical*trainer, watching the many TV’s and there it appeared. *Out of nowhere. *I nearly fell off the machine. *It was an ad for The Wolf Of Wall Street, proclaiming it’s been nominated for Best Picture. *This in the face of actually having...

<p>Most of us think of the hot seat, sometimes better known as the Sweet Spot, as the center chair in front of our loudspeaker pair. *And that would be correct. *But as we begin this new year it’s instructive to open our thoughts to some new ideas. *Why do we think it’s so essential to have “the...

<p>Happy new years to you and yours and may 2014 be a great year for us all. *PS Audio has a number of new products we’re excited about launching this year and I’ve been sitting on pins and needles waiting to tell you. *But that isn’t happening today. *Today we continue with our story from...

<p>Most of us remember, often with great fondness, our first times. *Yes, first times for anything good. *Like the first time you heard a high end audio system. *What were the circumstances for you? *Write me back in the comments section or send me an email and I’ll post a few of the best...

<p>The once flourishing fusion era produced many great bands including Return to Forever, Weather Report, John McLaughlin’s Mahavishnu Orchestra, Herbie Hancock and Jean-Luc Ponty. One of my favorite fusioneers is The Jeff Lorber Fusion. Keyboardist, composer, arranger and producer Jeff Lorber...

<p>There’s a lot of controversy in <a title="Expensive art" href="http://www.pstracks.com/pauls-posts/expensive-art/12821/">yesterday’s post*</a>and I actually got some hate mail. *Wow, first time for everything. *I am not going to defend the post or my thoughts since it’s clear a number of...

<p>Most technology based categories of products do not tolerate or encourage art and individuality. *Rather, they reward sameness and polish of existing art. *Take computers, for example. *The art in computers can be found in their packaging and peripherals but rarely in their performance. *Yes...

<p>One of my readers wrote this in response to my post <a title="The gift of music" href="http://www.pstracks.com/pauls-posts/gift-music/12804/">The gift of music</a>.</p> <p><em>“My daughter is 16 and part of the MP3 generation. *I am trying, and gave her 16 CDs for Christmas, all of her...