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
Compressing sound
In recordings, it is quite common for an engineer to use a compressor to better fit dynamics. Especially those of a singer. I like to imagine the art of compression...
Stark differences
Since we are all on the same page when it comes to wanting the accurate and enjoyable reproduction of music in our homes, it's always startling to me how different...
Polished or live?
When we make a studio recording it's understood it will be polished and perfect. The best we can do in a controlled environment. When we record live our goal is...
Mistakes
Thankfully, mistakes happen. Without those mistakes, we'd never make forward progress into the new. What's often frustratingly confusing about those mistakes is when we make them along a proven and...
It's about time
It's been 8 years since we introduced the groundbreaking DirectStream DAC. 8+ years since designer Ted Smith blew me away with the sound of his prototype and we began the...
Linear thinking
We all have different ways of processing the information around us. Some of us must have the facts/evidence presented in what I would call a linear/serial stream: this fact followed...