Archive for 'Tag Archives: 'ps-tracks''
Odd or even?
No doubt you’ve heard terms like class A, push pull, , SET, full complimentary, single ended etc. These terms all refer to how we use an amplification device rather than the amplification device itself (like a tube [...]
High voltage and linearity
In yesterday’s post we covered the fundamental differences between tubes and transistors and one of those we’re interested in is linearity. Tubes and transistors are only partially linear devices – which means they will not always [...]
From crystal radios to supercomputers
In yesterday’s post covering the invention of the vacuum tube and its principals of operation we learned that small crystals were used as the basis for radio receivers and that inventor Lee De Forest came up [...]
The personality of equipment
Have you ever noticed that many dogs resemble their owners? I think the same is true for equipment and the personality of the designs. In our hand-crafted industry of the high-end many designs bear the sonic [...]
Pots in a box
In the early 70′s Stan (The “S” in PS) and I only made phono preamplifiers. They had no controls, just a turntable input and a set of RCA outputs. Designed to go into the auxiliary inputs [...]
Should we support hoarding?
Yahoo is suing Facebook for violating some of its patents for technologies it both uses and doesn’t use. Yahoo waited years to take this action and it wasn’t until Facebook announced its IPO that they went [...]
If it’s not personal is it high-end?
Most high-end audio systems are very personal because they are hand assembled by the owner. Rarely are any two alike and that’s kind of what makes this sport fun. But if dealers sold pre-assembled “cookie cutter” [...]
How to separate wheat from chaff
For those non-farmers out there (like me) the wheat is the good part and the chaff is the throw away not worthy of eating. So if we were ever to set up some certification standards for [...]
Where did they all go?
Yesterday’s post about rooms and loudspeakers sparked a lot of questions about what diffusors to use and how to place them. Funny thing is, there’s really no good answer any more. I used to advocate RPG diffusors [...]
Perfectly legal?
If you own a CD it is perfectly legal to sell that CD. It’s your property. It is also perfectly legal for you to make a copy of that CD for your own use on your [...]
Do you qualify as an Audiophile?
I was on the phone with our marketing company Creativello in Seattle and trying to explain what it’s like to be an Audiophile: what moves us, what motivates us, what really floats our boats. When I got [...]
Good news: they are mostly dead
After several of you read yesterday’s post about tagging the question came up about how would we ever write rules a machine could use to sort out our libraries. After all, the music industry is ever-changing, [...]
Sharing the future
A 5 year old girl is reprimanded by her teacher for not sharing with her classmates. “Don’t you like to share?” Asked the teacher. “Yes I like to share, I just don’t like other people touching my stuff.” [...]
How much is enough?
A question being raised by folks interested in the debate on sharing is how creators (musicians, authors, inventors, artists) get back to where they were before the internet changed everything for them? The simple answer is [...]
Three best guitarists
When you think of bands that produced legendary guitarists, most people automatically default to the Yardbirds. The legendary triumvirate of Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page rank in the top ten in Rolling Stone magazines [...]
Technology brands
There are two basic camps of people when it comes to technology: those interested in new and innovative vs. those that want old and trusted. Which camp are you in? [...]
Commodities
I wonder if it's all bad to see the commoditization of high-end brands. On the one hand it brings good sound toi a lot of people. On the other ..... [...]
Common language
We use terms like transparency, soundstage, depth as if they were always here to describe what we hear. But they are actually relatively new terms that are part of a common language we use and [...]
What is an Audiophile?
Yesterday's post stirred up a hornet's nest of controversy with some feeling like my post about perfection was meant as a dig at our quest for musical nirvana. Nothing could be further from the truth. [...]
Snake oil
There's a lot of snake oil in our industry but most of it exists not to trick us, but to explain something we don't understand. [...]
Can you do it for $1000?
OK, we have just demonstrated how great high-end audio sounds, now what can someone do about buying a package? [...]
Once and forever!
Some knucklehead on the news was threatening to teach some group or another a lesson they’ll learn “once and forever”. A lofty goal indeed and one I think wrong headed under any circumstances. When we set [...]
Mastering or media?
Michael Fremer loves vinyl played back on his digital audio player. Filter or something else? [...]
$100K turntables?
Who is going to buy it? Ken Kessler delivers a strong opinion on the state of the high end, the dealers and why high-end audio products are struggling. [...]
‘Tis a shame
The masters and luminaries of high-end, at its peak, are still with us but getting older. 'Tis a shame if we lose that info forever. [...]
No Band Aids here!
AC regeneration and power conditioning are two completely different and unrelated topics. One rebuilds and generates new, the other a simple Band Aid. [...]
When we can’t we won’t
When you know what you don't know you always come out on the short end of the stick. [...]
I will remember yesterday
Some remember the day when Buddy and the music died. Some the day when Elvis the king died. Others remember John when the inspiration died. I remember yesterday, when my hero died. Bye Steve. You made [...]
A new day
The last in a three part series of how we might resurrect the local high-end audio dealer and what it would take. [...]
Wal Mart?
Here's the start of an idea we are kicking around about how to get high-end dealers back into our communities. [...]
Adult children
Every few years a new generation enters into the field of possible high-end devotees. What are we doing to welcome them into the fold? [...]
The pure and the practical
There's pure and then there's practical, sometimes you need a bit of both. [...]
A bias right in the middle
True - which is ne of the reasons we use complimentary symmetry design
A bias right in the middle
But in a sense in your single ended example there is no real middle. I
Odd or even?
So that others can find it on the internet, read it for themselves and
Odd or even?
Why would you mention the individual's name in a post, which I believe
Odd or even?
I've heard this assertion for the longest time and I must say I can't