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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Careful what you wish for
In the "glory days" of HiFi, between the 1980s and 90s, HiFi manufacturers were in a fierce competition to produce audio equipment with the lowest possible THD, a measure of performance...
Resonating
Resonance is a phenomenon that occurs when a system is driven at its natural frequency, causing it to oscillate with greater amplitude. Some examples might include the ringing of a bell, hitting...
Enhancement
When we say a new piece of audio kit enhances the performance of the system do we mean it in the literal sense of the word? "An increase or improvement...
Reverbs and subwoofers
I received a recent note from Lucas in Brazil and I wanted to first share it with you. "I've just discovered the Octave Records now and I'm really impressed as...
Better parts
In yesterday's post we discussed the practice of bypassing capacitors for better sonic performance. Today, let's touch on the idea of parts quality. When you invest in a piece of...
Bypassing caps
It is standard practice today to add in parallel a small film capacitor across a much larger value electrolytic cap. That practice is called bypassing and doing so improves the...