Barton struck gold in the audiophile world with his PSB Stratus Gold which were released at the 1990 CES in Chicago and never looked back. Paul Barton has been designing award-winning loudspeakers for PSB for more than forty years, making him of the most respected loudspeaker designers in the world with a customer base that extends well outside Canada. PSB is a loudspeaker brand revered by other loudspeaker designers those who understand the science behind building a pair of loudspeakers have a deep respect for the man behind them even if the mainstream media have taken their time to catch on. Not only is there more choice than ever before, but the sound quality of some of these products priced below $700 is beyond impressive. The affordable bookshelf loudspeaker category is starting to feel rather crowded. I battle daily with my 14 year-old son over control of the space because his gamer lifestyle is “complicated.”ĭesktop (or Ikea Kallax media unit flipped horizontally) audio has become a way of life for me in this space.īookshelf loudspeakers have taken over the room – I currently have Acoustic Energy, Klipsch, Wharfedale, and PSB in different locations. It’s a 35’ x 13’ x 9’ room in our finished basement that has acoustic treatments and a decent amount of light. I’m fortunate to have a rather unusual home office the room has our home theater space on one end, and my office/game room/media storage on the other. Millions of us watched our office jobs transfer from impersonal cubicles (I miss my cubicle…nobody can see your facial expressions when reading inane emails) to home offices requiring one to be flexible with their design choices and a lack of office space.

If you’ve met my children – often the space outside on the deck as far from Zoom remote learning as one can possibly get. Being stuck at home during the pandemic has forced us to reevaluate how we use the space inside our homes.

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