Tour of the new Listening Lab

PS Audio's new Listening Lab is ready for tours. Come see one of the coolest audio rooms in the world.

[@cesarjlisboa7586]

Paul, your excitement with your business, makes you always young. Congratulations, you will live forever..👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@markschotgerrits283]

Very nice Paul. Congratulations and enjoy it😊

[@liamporter1137]

Wow, this room is well decorated. The color coordination is awesome. Finally, a room that looks like a furniture than a nuclear power station.

[@PP-nh1lv]

Must be a decent profit margin!

[@gdownz1044]

The colors remind me of the hotel lobby in the shining movie. It's Colorado for sure. Nice Job 👍 Let the Music Play!! 🎵🎶💯

[@antonyharding5360]

I bet its a very relaxing sound , ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ Well done you guys ❤❤❤❤.

[@user-od9iz9cv1w]

Looks and sounds really good. Congratulations.

[@MrWingman2009]

Nice room. Would be awesome to get the chance to listen to it someday 😊

[@Bassotronics]

Love it!

[@danieljones8587]

Congratulations! 🎉 I will see you this fall.

[@ChuckHeinze]

Absolutely beautiful!

[@rwvision1]

Very good idea with the listening lounge and I respect Paul saying that the difference between extraordinary, expensive and much cheaper, well designed system is about 20%. Not many people realize that making a stereo system a bit better at some point means 2-4x the money.

[@TheDanEdwards]

Congrats on getting it done. Wish I could be there to try it.

[@markstaub5250]

I'm coming to visit for sure. Those speakers.....

[@robertschmitz4025]

Thank you!❤

[@michaeltamburello]

Gorgeous room, Paul! Great color scheme. Regarding the false ceiling, my biggest concern is vibration. Providing downward pressure of some kind on each of the panels can help with low frequency vibration that usually the biggest problem. Got to come by and check it out some time.

[@Seedlinux]

Beautiful!

[@uccelino]

Fabulous room 🤩So inspiring to hear Paul so excited about this ❤️

[@Eric-q9n]

Extraordinary? Any chance of hearing some sound demos for us mere audiophile paupers?

[@MrLexloofah]

All work and no play makes Paul a dull boy 😉, very nice room.

[@AndyHanson-tf6kj]

Exactly how I would have my listening room in an alternative reality. In fact it's somewhat similar, but adding a few feet to the width and especially length would be ideal for me to possibly reveal better imaging. Fortunately five bass traps keep things well controlled and I'm a happy bunny willing to accept perfection doesn't exist. Congrats. You still need a more comfortable centre seat though.

[@Totalplonker]

Big shout out to the designers. Wonderful job. The room is acoustically symmetrical, too

[@2gal4ever]

Hi Paul excellent work on your channel love it would like to know where you got the ceiling panels if possible keep up the excellent work

[@hilde45]

Really cool! I remember listening in this room with the Colorado Audio Society. If there was no need to display the gear, would you have the source components along the side wall, toward the back, connected with unbalance cables?

[@PSA78]

Sure looks mighty nice! 👌

[@brianfernandes2382]

If I won the lottery. I'd definitely make a visit so I could get a great reference for what I would want for myself.

[@thomasgunn4146]

I really wanna fly out and hear these things one of these days. I’m sad I never got to hear the IRS though. I shouldn’t have put that off

[@ptg01]

Well done.. The reality is unless you can do an immediate A/B comparison, unless it is really awful, it is usually pretty darn good.

[@budgetaudiophilelife-long5461]

LOOKING 👀 FORWARD TO SEEING AND HEARING👂 EXTRAORDINARY 🥶🤗 SOMEDAY …

[@donaldmacdougall1600]

Thanks for the preview Paul but you’re still missing your subwoofers. Thought you might have had a pair already done for this exceptional room.

[@tubefreeeasy]

Just an observation: If first reflective point is like a bank shot in pool, it seems like the first reflective point is around the lights area. An area where the walls are bare of room treatment.

[@RotatingToroids]

Great room Paul! Please tell us the company that made the wood diffusers. Thanks!

[@howardskeivys4184]

Paul, just an observation. I’ve probably watched the majority of your videos. You often point out that you use nothing more sophisticated than an iPhone to record those videos. That’s absolutely fine. Their video and audio reproduction is more than good enough. This video, recorded in your dedicated listening “listening lab”, sounded dull, muffled even. It didn’t sound natural. Not like I would expect your voice to sound if we were conversing in the same room. Were you employing different recording equipment? Or is that the way your listening lab is designed to sound? I’d love to see a similar video, recorded upstairs in your listening lounge. Keep up the good work. Most of all:- enjoy the music.

[@funny0000000]

It would sound even better if you take white silicone and put it on top of the metal A/C vent to dampen it. There is always room for improvement.

[@sturdyblock]

New toys! Fun fun fun.

[@matthiasreinhardtbw]

Looks great

[@tomoxfford]

On the basis that Paul invariably knows much better than me about most things my takeaway from this is that reddish wood and bright red furnishings are about to become attractive & fashionable choices for stylish rooms! ✌️😂

[@hardtoke]

haha, not at my place

[@willwill5595]

Nice, I would add art work of people front and sides 🎉

[@montynorth3009]

I didn't expect to see the exposed wood or laminate flooring either side of the carpet thinking that it would be reflective as the sound bounces off it. Would a fully carpeted floor be better?

[@lnielse1]

I know it wouldn't prove or disprove anything but it would have been nice to have something playing through the system in this video

[@TheWorldTeacher]

Nice.

[@Gary_Hun]

The lesser sitting row at the back, made of giant blown up marshmallows... of them two already gone bad. Or are they pepper flavor?

[@rudolfglaser9664]

Will the FR5, FR10 and FR20 are moving there position, when they will be used?

[@josefbuckland]

Sounds great looks hectic. I’m sure it sounds smooth but they are some angry colours and I find the room distracting but I guess we are not here to look at the PS gear we are here to hear. here Hear ol’ chap. lol

[@Fastvoice]

No additional subs in the back this time?

[@kimberlyH1984]

wow

[@mariodrv]

My room is about the same size - where can I get those side(and back) panels?

[@sergiofernandes2072]

Hi Paul, you said the electronics room is just behind the camera, did you mean that the room is open on that side like is this a room with 3 walls and where there should be a 4th wall its just open? Im asking because i was thinking to make a 3 wall room so my projector screen could be viewed from anywhere in the basement, but not sure how this would affect sound quality in the main listening position.

[@BB..........]

Why position the speakers on a short wall instead of a long wall?

[@marcbegine]

Hi Paul, could you please explain what the sound and acoustical influence of “passive loudspeakers” could be on the overall music quality in “THE SOUNDLAB”? Do You use a Subwoofer in the back again?

[@davidbarber11]

What about the floor?

[@thexfile.]

Because of old ears, you can't hear half these frequencies.

[@Error2username]

40,000 just to build the room??

[@arcadepiano]

triangles sounds better than rectangles

[@japerlm8150]

Hifi stories

[@hoobsgroove]

try and remember your figures Paul it makes you sound more credible, last time it was 40,000 now it's 20 000 at least it's coming down😂

[@joeythedime1838]

Less then a pair of FR30's ($30k)

[@hoobsgroove]

that is so pretentiousI hate it when people do things like that, listening lab??? where's the measuring equipment lol thought you better than that it's not a lab it's a listening room! come on man don't be pretentious.

[@dylnjshua4256]

First this time!

[@unclewilbur8976]

I’m too late!👀

[@dylnjshua4256]

@@unclewilbur8976 I was too the past couple of days! 🤭 Much love to you, Mr. Wilbur! ❤️ Catch you soon!

[@unclewilbur8976]

@dylnjshua4256 There's a slow satellite or wifi somewhere that put me behind. I was ready to pounce and I got tripped. 😁

[@dylnjshua4256]

@@unclewilbur8976 As they say, we snooze, we lose! 😅❤️

[@thegrimyeaper]

That awful looking old rug follows wherever Paul goes.

[@dougdavis8986]

Try harder to not be a dick. Plus, if you had a clue, you would know that’s a very nice rug.

[@snoochpounder]

There’s no way it sounds remotely as good as the old IRS setup did unless ps audio exists in some magical place where the laws of physics don’t apply. Paul claiming the new speakers sound as good as Arnie’s makes me lose my respect for him.

[@nathanevans6277]

The IRS are 40 year old technology. Speaker and material technology has moved a very long way in that time. Plus Chris is a genius. He and Paul didn't rush them onto the market, they took half a decade fettling the design. They used the IRS as the goalposts. I'd be surprised if the FR30s aren't better.

[@raykuiper4979]

I am afraid, you might be right, the Inifinty had a soundstage, in a width the AR30 can not provide

[@nathanevans6277]

@@raykuiper4979 narrow baffles tend to image better. This is one of the reasons that the FR30s are probably better. The IRS had to be wide to limit dipole cancellation.

[@bluesky6361]

Looks nice but sounds pretty dead.

[@antonyharding5360]

That's what will make it very listenable for many hours. No ringing ...

[@BruceCross]

You're not supposed to hear the slap echo.

[@bluesky6361]

Everything I have ever read about room acoustics says you don't want the room to be totally dead. Might as well listen in a anechoic chamber. I've been in several and they are not pleasant.

[@JCW-jx6ld]

Wonderful stuff and not forgetting bang for yer buck 🫡