ALAC and FLAC are two lossless audio formats. Do they sound different than uncompressed audio in WAV and AIFF?

PS Audio has added a state of the art recording facility and record label to its company. Will these changes have an impact on the company’s audio products going forward? You can visit Octave Records at http://www.octaverecords.com

Are there any great vintage loudspeakers when compared to modern speakers?

In The Audiophile’s Guide Paul recommends a specific distance from center for the speakers. What happens if the room doesn’t match what he wrote in the book?

If you are bi-amping your speakers, is it alright to mix amplifier types between the tweeter and woofer?

Finally, someone asks Paul to define an Audiophile and here goes!

The Audiophile’s Guide is Paul’s landmark book that helps audiophiles set up their system for three dimensional sound. The book relies upon its companion, the Reference Audio tracks.

Older recordings advertised as “high resolution” were often nothing more than upsampled audio. How do you know when it’s really higher resolution or just upsampled?

If a digital audio copy of vinyl carries with it the “sound” of vinyl, does that mean vinyl is distorted?

It can be important to protect your audio system from surges and spikes but in so doing, we can often make worse the way they sound. How to get an audiophile surge protector without spending a lot of money.