Ohms Law

Small ensembles and groups are easy to accurately reproduce in a home stereo setting, but what about orchestral music?

When a guitar player amplifies his instrument and plays through a speaker, why do recording engineers put a microphone on that speaker instead of a direct connection?

If musicians don’t care about high-end audio, why is it audiophiles don’t seem to care about quality recordings—some even listening to electronic music rather than classical.

If you digitally copy a vinyl disc will it sound identical or will it instead have digital artifacts?

Highly resolving musical reproduction systems can be double-edged swords making the good sound great and the bad sound worse. Does this mean as audiophiles we have to limit our musical choices?

Most receivers and surround processors feature a separate sub out jack but this person wonders why high-end audio equipment doesn’t contain that.

Companies are no more nor less than the quality of the people that work for them. PS Audio’s employees are passionate to a fault. How does that happen so consistently? What’s the secret?

Some stereo systems sound live and present while others, even expensive others, don’t. Why is that and how does one decide what to buy?

There’s a difference between home theater and two-channel audio speaker placement. How do you set up the systems to serve both or do you?

Should the room we play our stereos in be live, dead, or something else? How can we get an even and flat frequency response to honor all the money we’re invested in gear?