Ohms Law

With nearly 50 years of experience in the high-performance audio field this viewer wants to know Paul’s level of commitment and enjoyment of what he does for a living.

This viewer is plagued with unwanted sibilance in his system and he wonders about the cause of it. Can it come from the electronics, the source, the speakers, or all three?

We know live music from afar without seeing the musicians play, and we can almost always tell if the sound is reproduced, but why? What makes live music sound live and reproduced not?

Now that Class D amplifiers seem to be taking over even the high-performance area of musical amplification is the day of the linear amplifier over? What’s the future of linear amplification?

Lots of companies including PS Audio make state of the art D to A converters but what about the opposite? Is it difficult to build a truly remarkable A/D converter?

When playing two pure tones at the same time can that cause distortion? And, if so, what is it called and what can be done to remedy and eliminate that distortion?

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.