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<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...

<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...

<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...

<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...

<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...

<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...

<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...

<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...

<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...

<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...

<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...

<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...

<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?...

<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...

<p>Andy, one of my readers, shared with me a special moment that just happened to him: he got the speaker he’s lusted after all these years, a pair of Acoustat 2+2. *He shared that experience with me...

<p>Paul McGowan is the CEO and co-founder of PS Audio Inc. a Boulder Colorado design and manufacturing company of high-end audio products and services. McGowan has been designing and building...

<p>Over on the Community Forums one of our posters suggested they had previously owned several class D amplifiers and found them to sound thin, cold and unengaging. * “Why would anyone bother...

<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...

<p>… that we don’t notice things until we hear something different? *That we don’t notice there’s no body to a cymbal until we hear one that has it? *Or we don’t notice the signer’s voice is anything...

<p>Paul McGowan is the CEO and co-founder of PS Audio Inc. a Boulder Colorado design and manufacturing company of high-end audio products and services. McGowan has been designing and building...

<p>We got close. *Really close. *The technician finished stuffing the new input stage, our chief engineer Bob Stadtherr brought it up and tested it, he and I spent a fun afternoon tweaking the square...

<p>I have often thought of my life as one lived by different people. *I feel distinctly different than when I was a boy, a teenager and a young man. Different enough that I seem almost like different...

<p>Reader Ed Houck reminds me of one of the best methods for bass setup. *It’s nearly foolproof and works not only for bass and subwoofers, but with full range loudspeakers as well.</p>
<p>I...

<p>I promised in <a title="Rolling the dice" href="http://www.pstracks.com/pauls-posts/rolling-dice/12755/">yesterday’s post</a> I’d tell you what I preparing to implement to improve the high...

<p>Oops. *In yesterday’s post <a title="Keep the lights on" href="http://www.pstracks.com/pauls-posts/lights/12701/">keep the lights on</a> I left out a key word in my sentence “There’s no convincing...