Join Paul as he shares for the first time the real story of his first experience with HP and the Infinity IRS speakers, then sits down for the last time in Music Room One. He plays the very last song ever in this hallowed room.
PAUL you’ve had it up for less than 30 minutes and hundreds apparently interested in your ‘blathering’ . We love you, because of it , not in spite of it!! Keep Blathering!!
Thank you, Paul, for sharing this journey with us. Your stories and anecdotes are always enthralling and passionate. Best of luck in the new music room!
Odd, they seemed to even make my computer speakers sound better.
5 лет назад
That's an idea. Instead of just measuring frequency response measure transient response and distortions and what not and then modify the signal to compensate for that. Special youtube videos for M Kanone!
OMG, Paul that sounded amazing even over my single speaker on my Galaxy Note 8! I would probably come to tears if I was sitting in a room listening to them with the lights dimmed!🙏🙏🙏🙏🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Hi Paul, I would consider myself an audiophile even though my system is mostly entry level Cambridge Audio stuff with an old pair of keffs. Very refreshing to see a successful guy not hiding the fact that he had a life back in the day. Cool vids.
Very good Paul, love the roaming story's. I am 62 ad talk and roam with my thoughts as I am heading to the point of the story. My kids tell me not to change, that makes the story more personnel. Love the speakers and the new building, one day I may get out your way to have a listen. I have sleep on a water bed for almost 40years and being in any other bed is awful. Not to mention being away from my own Altec based creations. Thank you Paul, I have learned much from you.
Hey Paul ! Greetings from Australia ! Thanks so much for sharing this.... loved the story.... and even with crappy speakers in my laptop could clearly hear just how AMAZING the IRS are ! I hope you enjoy them just as much in their new location....
Mr.McGowan, I've enjoyed your videos all these many years since the very first one, to this last one. I get a kick every time you mention Harry Parsons of the absolute sound, in which I am a big fan of. Your fondness and affinity for the Infinity Reference is understandable, and I for one enjoyed this last video so much. I wish you great success in your new location. I look forward to your next installment. God bless
Ooh, Doug, yeah the view would be sweet from FW, but i don't think the speakers would appreciate the climate changes -- I hear that the State of PA can be pretty doggone damp for long periods..(?!) ( Youngstown, OH native, me)
Just listening to that short clip through my rubbish headphones I can just tell that there is so much dynamics and effortless power. I would love to hear this in person.👍🏼
Wow the emotion over a pair of speakers i never seen anyone love a pair as much as the love i have for mine, im sure those are leagues better then what i built my self my friends thought i was crazy when i put 2 15" subs inside them almost 2.5 m tall (8.2 ft) but they are the perfect sound to me many of my friends said i should sell them get rid of them they are to big to bulky you name it i heard it so seeing someone share the love for a set of speakers is beautiful
Thanks for the story. I really enjoyed listening to it. And my God I’m just on my iPhone’s stock earphones but those speakers sound phenomenal. I can’t even imagine how they sound like in person. Probably would cry. Anyway good luck, happy holidays and see you in 2019!
I was listening away to you making your selection decisions (before you hit the play button) thinking I'll grab a copy and play it here - then you let it rip, and I knew for sure that I had well and truly bitten off more than I could chew. - so I'm definitely not going to even think of trying it.
There is nothing like moving rooms to make you appreciate your HiFi all over again. So pleased you chose Mahler's 3rd Symphony - I would love to hear it on your system (maybe we could sneak in Mahler's 1st as well and a few thousand other recordings !!) A bit geeky (may upset RU-vid as well) but could you tell us who is performing please. If I like a piece I love to hear all the recordings and performances I can to keep it fresh (some you hate and others you love) . I have a feeling this is probably one of the greats 😁
Hey Paul as a coincidence you have two things in common with Paul Keating one of the retired Prime Ministers of the Commonwealth of Australia is both an Audiophile AND a very big Mahler fan. One of his biographers/speech writer Don Watson (Confessions of a Bleeding Heart) Don recounts the story of how PM Keating used to drag senior staff into a big listening room that he had set up in the official prime ministerial residence just to listen. The story goes that he also had a REALLY BIG PAIR ......of speakers. You should reach out to him PM Keating is quite a character and is the kind of personality that likely to be chuffed to chat audiophilia with you. Don Watson and his Don’s books are also worth the contact as he is a bit of Grammarian and he does audiobooks also he read his Biography of Keating himself and has a great dry Ozzie voice.
I would be OK if you made an hour long video just talking about sound. I love your honesty about the "joint" . I just got a new idea about a CD rack from your video. Thank you PAUL . How fortunate you are.
Paul, that sounded really, really, really good! I understand now what you said about effortless linear scaling of the sound as I would call it. Also the imaging is stable with "meat on the bones". It can take a half year to two years before it sound so good again in the new music room, so don't be scared as the sound will not meet your expectations from the offset, it even can be quite far off.
What is it about speakers that creates such a special relationship with them. I love my Thiels and Quads just like you love your IRS V's Paul. I totally get the emotions you're going through, especially as they are such a strong link to your dear friend Arnie.
Great choice of Mahler's 3rd. Wish I could have been there to hear it with you, Paul. Abbado & Lucerne Festival Orchestra's performance is a spiritual experience. The video is available on RU-vid.
That really is a special recording. I've listened to clips of it through Blue Coast. All of the MTT Mahler recordings are good, but I feel especially moved by the 3rd and the 7th.
They sound full and real coming out of my iPhone 6 speaker (as full and real as it can be coming out of a crap speaker). I can’t possibly imagine what it would be like to really be there. I think the sheer size and power of the sound would disintegrate my mortal flesh.
Has PS Audio ever dabbled in the idea of making guitar amps? There's a company called Phil Bass who did similarly. He started in Hi Fi audio and now offers amazing solutions for bass players, and musicians.
God would I love to be able to afford a pair. Hey paul in the new room I would love to here a demo Of comfortably numb would to here that solo Great speakers!!!!
Gotta love a guy who enjoys Mahler. My father introduced me to the music of Mahler and I have been a fan ever since. Listening to Magnepans with a hybrid amplifier, and playing Mahler is pure heaven.
That sounded amazing even on my iPhone but i’m sure this is nowhere near compared to being in that room. Just wish you played it a little bit longer... 😄
Please put up the next part as soon you can...I think I speak for most of ur fans of this channel in saying we don't care if the video is more then 20 or 30 or 40 minutes......
Very touching Paul.....I look forward to all that will be forthcoming from the new PS Audio building and it's fine listening rooms and DSD control room... Which Mahler recording is your final listen and tribute to AN ?
Well, there's one location off my bucket list : Goodbye MR #1 :-( ....and you never listened to the phono preamp on Harry's system? Shame, you might have learned something and got to come back for the MK2 mods ;-) I just got a Mahler boxed set. Thanks for the suggestion
Such a sentimental guy aren't you ... very sweet ... I'm very much like that too ! What will be the first song or piece of music to greet the new walls of MR1 .. You STILL haven't replaced the dust cap on those servo speakers ..!! That's a must !! Air can escape through the voice coil gap ..!
I say play the same thing because it is most fresh in your mind. Then I'm also torn. It won't sound the same. It may even be better but one is inclined to second guess it and be disenchanted by it.
ixfxi that's bullshit ... there is a small air gap past the spider and voice coil .. I know it's small but those cabinets have 6 x 12" woofers in them and that would create a considerable amount of back pressure and suction past the voice coil ..!
That must have been some great pot, because I'm wondering if it may have dulled your memory of that evening a bit, LOL! The original IRS first appeared in 1980, and HP's initial review of it came out in TAS #19 in September of that year. By the end of 1975 there has only been about six issues of the magazine. Perhaps what you saw was one of the IRS' predecessors like the Quantum Reference, which was kind of IRS-like in many ways, or the hybrid system HP put together using the Infinity midrange/tweeter section with Magnepan Tympani woofer panels. Or maybe your memory is of a later trip?
I am not good at years so likely it happened then just after they were launched and my recollection of the year was incorrect. I know Harry had one of the first pair and he had it well before release but that would likely have been 1979 or 80. Thanks for the correction.
Who needs to be exact? It was good Leaf I'm sure. Could you even certify that leaf even had that magic ingredient? I was inspired once on top of Mammoth Mountain back in those mid 70's. Don't go down from the top!! its way steeper than it looks from midway!! Took me a half hour just to survive skidding my butt down that face!
@@Paulmcgowanpsaudio I apologize if I came across sounding like a jerk. That was not my intent. I was just trying to sleuth out the actual timeline here.
It couldn't be even the QRS (Harry replaced the woofer section with the bass-section of the Magnepan Tympany ID) or QLS because they came out in 1978 and 1976 respectively. In 74 Infinity still had the Servo Statik as their top of the line speaker.
Huffin Smokeing pot???? oh my lord Paul !!… never in a millon years would I have Thunk!!!!….. now after hearing that I can tell my in laws I still smoke pot!!!..lolololololol This is why we love you Paul!!!!!! your open and honest!!!!!!!!!
