Musicians are hoping for a specific kind of sound when they use speakers to play their instruments through and audiophiles are looking for something very different. Paul gets into a rant about musicians not paying respect to their own music. Explicit language and high emotion alert.

Does pure multi-channel audio have a place in the broader world of high-performance audio or should it stay as a home theater format? This viewer wants to know why it is so rare to find high-quality multi channel audio.

This viewer considers stereo a gimmick and much prefers the sound of his two-channel audio system as mono rather than its intended stereo image. Can mono have 3-dimensional sound characteristics?

Power amplifiers are some of the most critical pieces to a high-performance audio system yet often times they are either misunderstood or under appreciated. Paul Explains why.

Some power amplifiers have two sets of output binding posts for each channel. What is the purpose of these twins?

Most stereo sales people ask a lot of questions of customers before giving advice. Why do they do this and how should this viewer answer them?

We hear about “musically involving” systems but what does that actually mean? How do we determine if a hifi system is musical and what of systems that aren’t this way?

We are told to pay attention to an amplifier’s damping factor and that it is something that controls speakers, yet, just what is damping factor and how is it calculated?

Hifi systems depend on room acoustics for their performance level. If one has the opportunity to start from scratch and build the ideal room, what might those dimensions be?

Paul pulls back his kimono on sound of the crazy stuff he did in Europe and shares some family secrets about the music scene in Munich and his time with musicians Elton John and Giorgio Moroder.