Ohms Law

The grooves on a record contain all the information of every kind of music from rock and roll to classical, but how does that work? How can a series of wiggles translate into the London Philharmonic Orchestra?

Every piece of music has the perfect volume setting and all are different. What’s one to do? Here’s a clever idea suggested by Paul’s viewer.

The trend in electronics today leans towards inclusion of a switch mode power supply as opposed to the more traditional toroidal analog supplies. Is this a good trend and how do they work?

This audiophile doesn’t like the way traditional potentiometers sound in his system and wants to copy what we do in the BHK preamplifier. How does it work?

There seems to be a certain “magic” when a properly set up pair of dipole speakers are playing. How does that work and why?

The best way to connect a subwoofer is through its high level input, but what if that’s not possible. Is a splitter alright or a big non no?

PS Audio builds one of the world’s only high-performance AC regenerators to power audio equipment. Why do they have to be so big? Can’t you design smaller ones to individually power equipment?

Which sounds better, a CD or that same CD after being ripped and stored on a NAS? Paul answers this question and helps us understand the differences between network music and physical mediums.

Most streaming music services like Pandora or Spotify send compressed music to their listeners and never sound as good as the CDs and source files they originated from. Is that always the case?

If a power amp expressly forbids the use of low impedance speakers is it alright to use it with some modifications?