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
Vinyl Masters
I’ve often spouted off about why vinyl sounds so different than any other medium. In those gushing (isn’t that what happens at the output of a spout?) I have said...
The bypass cap
Capacitors are interesting components. They serve as frequency dividers, energy storage units, and DC blockers (among other things). I've written before about my experience so many years ago learning about...
Here's a simple test
Whenever the subject of filling in missing low frequencies comes up I am often asked how do you know what's missing? Certainly one can perform a series of measurements at...
How much are we willing to miss?
There are very few systems that are truly full range. The shortcomings of rooms and speakers often preclude simple setups from delivering all there is on a disc. Take Music...
Stereo fascination
When I was growing up my father's home-built stereo system—the envy of our neighbors and relatives—was monophonic. To fill our living room with sound there were two sets of parallel-wired...
No Going Back
I don’t know about you but for me, once I’ve heard a great high-end audio system there’s no going back. And it’s not just high-end audio systems that reset standards....