Ohms Law

This viewer wants to understand why his moving coil cartridge sounds so much better than his moving magnet. Paul explains why as well as how both work.

What happens if you take a bookshelf speaker and place it on its side to fire horizontally, as opposed to its originally intended vertical position?

Does a stereo soundstage contain height information? This viewer just discovered another wonder of high-performance audio and questions if he’s hearing correctly.

Do visually impaired listeners “see” a different three dimensional sound image than sighted people when listening to high-end audio?

It’s not difficult to imagine a small combo of musicians in your living room, but what about the Berlin Philharmonic? That’s be tough to squeeze into most homes, so which is correct for a mastering engineer to strive for?

CDs and their ripped copies should be the same, but this viewer finds a volume difference. What’s going on?

Most living rooms are not perfect rectangles or squares. Instead, they have open spaces on one end and boxy closed areas on the other. Can you do anything to balance a stereo system in an asymmetrical room?

Systems can often sound good and then bad without anything other than the time or the day changing. What are the variables that determine how a system changes its sound?

Few of us would hesitate to purchase a used pair of speakers or power amplifier, yet when it comes to digital equipment, we seem to be adverse to the practice.

If speaker cables are different lengths from each other, how does that affect the sound? Since electricity travels far quicker than can be perceived by the human ear, what’s the verdict?