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T6 Home Theatre System Review
Thomas J. Norton from Home Theater Magazine gives a near perfect review of the T6 HT System
PSB Speakers new Facebook page
PSB Speakers starts new Facebook page with video and lots of insider information
Soundstagev.com interviews Paul Barton
Doug Schneider of the SoundStage! Network launches SoundstageV.com a video editorial web site. Doug launched his site with 4 videos centered around PSB Speakers. Go ahead and watch these very informative interviews with Paul Barton
Paul Barton - The Priorities of Speaker Design
PSB founder explains to CEPro Magazine, the priorities behind PSB's loudspeaker design.
PSB Synchrony Technology
Read through some of the technology that makes every Synchrony Speaker a Top Performer
Paul Barton at the NRC
In the heart of Canada's capitol city of Ottawa, is a "campus" accommodating one
of the world's most important centers of accumulated — and constantly increasing
—knowledge. This is the central facility of Canada's unique National
Research Council, with some 51 major buildings in which state-of-the-art
facilities
PSB Unveils Synchrony Loudspeakers
The PSB Synchrony One Home Theater System earns high praise from Sound & Vision magazine. "PSB's Synchrony are among the best speakers I've auditioned in my studio in several years."
With its most significant introduction in a decade, PSB Speakers has revealed its latest family of "statement" designs: PSB Synchrony. The Synchrony range - comprised of two towers, two bookshelves, two center-channels and a surround - combines rare musicality and technical excellence, with startlingly compact, small-footprint design, and sculptural finish of unequalled quality that looks and integrates stunningly into today's listening and home theater rooms. Read more
PSB Launches New HD Subwoofers
The HD models, which stand for High Density due to their condensed design, are PSB's first ultra-compact subwoofers. These new designs not only needed to be compact but also to provide the deep bass punch, authoritative power and musicality for
which all current PSB subwoofers are acclaimed.
How to Set Up a Subwoofer - Placement Basics
GoodSound!'s Philip Beaudette met with Paul Barton at Canada's NRC. Paul has used NRC's advanced facilities to design his loudspeakers and subwoofers since the early '70s. Paul had some interesting things to say about the basics of subwoofer placement.
PSB Launches New Alphas
PSB Speakers Announces a renovation to one of its best selling loudspeaker lines-the Alpha Series. Following years of success and popularity among dealers and
customers, the new Alpha Series speakers have been treated with a facelift
to better match them with the emerging lifestyle-oriented products. But the
new Alpha's aren't just better looking, there's a wealth of solid
improvements from the original design including a more solid and
resonant-free enclosure as well as upgraded drivers through the addition of
newly formulated "high loss" woofers.
PSB expands In-Wall line-up
PSB Speakers announces additions to one of its best-selling speaker lines – the CustomSound Series. Following PSB Speakers' past success with other in-wall products, the PSB engineers have created 11 new speakers with whole house and home theater applications in mind. PSB's new In-Wall Speakers offer many improvements, as well as offering great value.
Cedia Expo PSB Update
It’s showtime! September is here, and for PSB, among hundreds of other C/E businesses, that means CEDIA Expo.
Professor Paul at the NRC
Doug Schneider explains that it is hard to talk to Paul Barton without learning something new about loudspeaker design.
Guide to Speaker Specifications
Are you in the market for a new set of loudspeakers? The loudspeaker market today is absolutely flooded with a varying array of applications from traditional floor-standing to satellite systems to in-walls and in-ceiling. Each with its own specific purpose and each with its own trade offs. So how does one narrow the field when searching for new speakers? Well the first step is understanding the important specifications and how they relate to your needs. Our very own Sherlock Ohms puts these confusing numbers in terms you can understand.
PSB Launches VisionSound Series
PSB Speakers would like to welcome you to the next generation of custom-oriented
high-performance speakers-the VisionSound Series. Designed specifically for
use with plasma, LCD and other flat-panel displays, the VisionSound Series
meets the demand for unparalleled sonic performance in a compact and
attractive enclosure for both in-room and on-wall application. With
its legendary PSB performance, VisionSound combines a new acoustical design
with novel technology and dramatic contemporary styling. Introduce yourself
to the VisionSound Series today!
The PSB Speakers Story
To those familiar with PSB, the acronym (Paul & Sue Barton) could very well mean People, Sound and Business. For years, audio critics have attributed the performance of PSB loudspeakers with founder, Paul Barton’s love and passion for audio. However, today, it is easy to see that PSB Speakers is no longer a small business operation.
If you have a moment, read our inspiring story. And in advance, we welcome you to the PSB Speakers family…
Good-Better-Best Speakers
The real differences between speakers at different performance levels, what it takes to achieve them, and what they mean for various listening situations in the real world.
Birthplace of Good Sound
Paul Barton gives a walking tour to the Robb Reports Brent Butterworth. We have reprinted the journal of his day of Listening and exploring at the NRC
Changing World of Loudspeakers
In this article we will look at some of the challenges and opportunities custom retailers and consumers need to consider in their selection of loudspeakers.
loudspeaker Placement - How to
The way you place speakers in a room can make a tremendous difference in the way they sound… In fact, equally as important as speaker selection – determining which products are right for you and your listening environment – is speaker placement within that environment.
We take you through some common “real world” applications and provide general rules of thumb, such as positioning your speakers in varying room sizes, subwoofer placement, and appropriate seating distance from your speakers, as well as how to produce the widest “sweet spot” so that you and your friends and family can sit and enjoy optimum high-frequency definition.
Buying Speakers that you will love
As you explore different speakers you’ll discover previously hidden details in your music that transform your experience from merely listening to complete involvement!
When you consider buying some new loudspeakers, please use these specific criteria to help make your decisions; here is a brief explanation of some of these criteria. We hope this will make your own search a bit more fun and guarantee you success in buying loudspeakers you love.
Our Philosophy - Performance and Value
Our founder and chief designer, Paul Barton, sees the real challenge of speaker design as providing the highest possible performance for the lowest feasible cost. Here is how that influences the way our speakers are designed, and why they are exceptional values in all their price ranges.
Glossary Of Terms
With so many terms and acronyms used to describe the features of today's hi-performance home theater systems, we thought a comprehensive glossary of terms would be in order.
The Frequencies of Music
An interesting look into the world of musical instrument frequency. How a frequency response chart relates to the ranges of musical instruments.
Controlling Laws of Physics
You don't have to read too far in any publication dealing with stereo and/or Home Theater equipment to discover that ads for loudspeakers usually outnumber all the others by a wide margin — and that they generally contain even more superlatives than movie ads. What's underneath all the adjectival bloat? What are the factors that really determine speaker performance?
Hear For Yourself
You will know how speakers sound when you get them home, but here are the ways to make sure that a showroom listening comparison of speakers is productive and at least somewhat predictive of what they will really sound like in your listening room.
Some Theory Underlying Sub Design
What Subs are really for, and why it matters.
As you go down the frequency scale, there comes a point — more accurately, a range — where sound starts to change from something your ears perceive to something your body feels.
Audiophile vs Videophile
Sherlock Ohms looks into the grudge match between the MP3 vs Hi-Fi formats, and what low-fi has done to the speaker industry "It was audio that transformed 20-inch televisions into big screens. It was audio that gave birth to home theater and yet, in recent years, with the advent of high definition television, has become the forgotten child.
