PS Audio founder and CEO, Paul McGowan, writes a daily blog: short, informative, fun, often controversial, but always interesting. Subjects range from personal stories, how to setup your system, news of the day, streaming, vinyl, tubes, transistors, loudspeakers, holographic imaging and more. Kind of like the Car Talk of audio. Not much is sacred, and there’s rarely a mention of our own products.
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Paul's Posts
The color of sound
Sound has color. We describe systems as warm, cool, rich, lean. We talk about golden midranges or silvery highs. These are colors, not numbers. And while they’re subjective, they’re real....
Granularity
Granularity isn’t a common audio term—but maybe it should be. It’s that ultra-fine resolution in a great system, the kind that lets you hear into the texture of the music....
Sonic personality
The chassis is more than a box. It’s part of the story. You've seen it. You've experienced it. You know it. There’s something about the way a piece of gear feels...
The volume trap
We like it loud—but too much of a good thing is still too much. There’s this idea that cranking up the volume reveals more. And it does—until it doesn’t. Push...
The skeptic
We audiophiles can be a skeptical bunch. The second someone claims a power cable can tighten the bass or open up the top end, the pitchforks come out. “Snake oil!”...
Rising and slewing
Transients are the split-second bursts of energy that give music its life. Without them, sound is dull, slow, and lifeless. Take a cymbal crash. The moment the drumstick strikes the...