Ohms Law

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.

In order to hear the softer passages of classical music this viewer has to turn up the level of his system beyond what makes sense for when things get loud.

With the advent of the Loudness Wars it seems practical to ask for a standard minimum dynamic range for recordings to get us back to where we’d like to be.

Is the best crossover for a loudspeaker a single pole, single capacitor for the tweeter? This viewer has heard he should rip out the guts of his 2-way speaker pair and get out the soldering iron.

This viewer is a bass instrument musician and he finds it difficult to follow the bass line of his instrument on his current setup. Is there anything he can do?