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
It might seem obvious
In yesterday's post on subwoofers, I cautioned about the use of series crossovers: one low pass filter in the receiver feeding another in the subwoofer. What I did not address...
Double Duty
For those that have receivers or integrateds with dedicated RCA subwoofer outputs, this post may have some interest. For the most part, a dedicated subwoofer output on a receiver or...
Effortless
Perhaps one of the keywords describing what I am after in sound quality is effortless. When a system plays at all levels without ever drawing attention to itself we might...
Uneven speaker cable lengths
Without question, my obsession with symmetry and fears of getting things wrong has always prompted me to make sure my speaker cables were exactly the same length. Down to the...
What Would Edison Say?
If inventor Thomas Edison hopped in a way-forward time machine to see how his phonograph had been improved upon in the intervening 144 years, do you think he’d be surprised...
Is Simple Good Enough?
The more I get involved in the recording arts the more I become convinced simple is key. Yes, we can get a bit more intimate with close miking, and we...