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Frank Doris continues to mine his experience accrued over 50 years of playing in bands, offering insight into drug use, stage fright, and other lessons learned about life on the road and on stage.
Mike Harkins explores the rise of DSP in high-end audio, questioning its role in shaping the future as more audiophile brands adopt it to optimize room acoustics and enhance sound reproduction.
In part 2, Tomasz Karasinski and Mateusz Jujka (Pylon Audio) talk about how NOT to place your speakers, how to do it right, and the joy and awe we’ll feel once we hear the end result.
Tomasz Karasinski and Mateusz Jujka (Pylon Audio) tackle the overlooked art of speaker placement, offering practical tips to optimize sound quality and room acoustics.
“To say these upgrades and tweaks changed the sound of my system for the better is a huge understatement. Their cumulative effect on the sound I previously had is nothing less than staggering.”
Frank Doris shares lessons from 50 years of playing in bands, from stage falls to near-stardom, exploring the deep, primal urge that drives musicians to play.
Kevin Fielding uncovers how our ears pinpoint the direction of high and low sounds, influenced by head size—crucial knowledge for perfecting speaker placement, subwoofers, and creating an immersive soundstage.
In an interview with Frank Doris, Rene Wiedner discusses how vinyl record manufacturing endures today through innovations like embossing and DMM, combining old techniques with modern technologies to keep the craft alive.
Frank Doris shares lessons from 50 years of playing in bands, from stage falls to near-stardom, exploring the deep, primal urge that drives musicians to play.
Music and the search for better sound reproduction have always been my passion. I realized, early on, that bass was a big part of what I liked about sound and critical for the music to elicit in me an emotional response. But to achieve ultimate bass—the deepest, most solid, most seamless bass—requires getting many things…
“I’ve decided to start a new series. Even if you’re not a musician, perhaps it’ll give some insight into the nitty-gritty of the art of music-making, or inform your listening the next time you sit in front of your stereo, or just provide some entertainment and perhaps a life lesson or two.
PS Audio’s Paul McGowan offers a brief history of the evolution of loudspeakers.
In a world dominated by smartphones and wireless earbuds, it’s easy to forget the trailblazers of portable audio that paved the way. This journey through the history and evolution of portable music players is filled with innovation, cultural shifts, and technological marvels. Let’s dive into the groovy history and evolution of portable music players, a…
In my previous article, entitled “Analyzing a Stereo’s Frequency Response and Decay Times”, I suggested measurement tips and the use of important variables to do with frequency response and decay times. This article begins with a measurement baseline of a 2-channel stereo with two subwoofers within a typical domestic living room (25’ x 11.25’ x 8’)…
As an audiophile on a journey of perpetually better sound, I was left slightly disconcerted by class-D trailblazer Bruno Putzeys’s assertion, in my previous class-D article, that, as he put it, well-done class-D amplification was now so good that “the amplifier part is basically a solved problem”. I understood the gist of what Bruno meant…