Month: October 2018

When BBC launched their famous BBC Monitors they incorporated an unconventional dip in frequency response nicknamed the BBC Dip. Is that famous dip still in use by manufacturers and designers of today’s speakers as well? Watch Now  

What types of speakers crossovers are best to use? A 2-way or 3-way crossover? Paul tackles this intriguing question, one that has plagued speaker designers for decades. Watch Now  

Our snake oil award goes to this video but its content might just surprise you. Some will be horrified, while others may cheer. Paul talks about optical cleaning products for CDs. Watch Now

Can you take an amplifier rated for low wattages, like 30 watts, and use it effectively to power a speaker with a maximum input rating of 100 watts? Watch Now

Some preamp manufacturers insist their use of an inverted output is the right way to go and any products that do not invert are simply not as good. Is that true? Watch Now

If the goal of high-performance audio is to do as little harm as possible, wouldn’t it make sense to have as few components in the signal path as possible? Makes sense, but Paul explains why that just might be flawed logic. Watch Now

Is it important to stay within the bounds of a single manufacturer’s product for best synergy and performance or is mixing and matching equipment better? Watch Now

If subwoofers were able to roll off the bottom end of the main loudspeaker, wouldn’t there be advantages like greater clarity, lower distortion, and less power spent? And, if that’s true, why don’t manufacturers offer such filters with subwoofers? Watch Now

Here’s a problem Paul has struggled with for nearly 40 years and still, to this day, he only has succeeded in solving a partial bit of this terribly difficult problem. Find out his thoughts on why stereo systems do not replicate the sound of live music and what is being done to solve that problem. […]

Our rooms are as important to a good reproduction of sound as our equipment. So if the proper room treatment is not to over damp it, sucking the life from the room, how come this fellow’s stereo system bucks that rule? Watch Now

Speakers have far more distortion than electronics yet we seemed obsessed with distortion figures of stereo electronics. How much matters and how much is too much for good sound? Watch Now

Are preamplifiers needed in a stereo system? Why not just put their guts into a power amplifier and have one unit for fewer boxes and a shorter signal path? Watch Now

Many people believe that Class D amplifiers are actually digital when Paul argues just the opposite. Find out how a class D amplifiers work and what the differences between Class D and digital are. Watch Now

Is it possible or even desirable to compare the sound of live music to a pair of 2-channel loudspeakers in the design phase of a product? Watch Now

If you had all the money in the world and spent it on a high-performance 2-channel audio system how good would it sound? Watch Now