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
Tweaks vs. fixes
How do you know when to tweak or fix? Does it make sense to buy a new amplifier when all it might have taken to get better sound was an...
Imperfection
It is often the imperfections and small mistakes that I love most. Unfortunately for me, I feel rather alone. A constant battle I wind up fighting at Octave Records is...
Complexity of sound
Thinking a bit recently about needle drops and the sound of vinyl (as I mentioned in my earlier post). It occurs to me that if one can fully capture something...
Order to chaos
Over the past few months I have been hard at work writing the next book in our series, The Audiophile's Guide. That first book, The Stereo, was an all-encompassing work...
The art of impurity
In a recent comment in response to my video about vinyl, viewer Richard Haggerty wrote: "Vinyl is a physical medium, having a stylus riding on the surface causing friction. No...
The problem with feedback
PS engineer Darren Myers and I were enjoying lunch together at a new Thai food restaurant. The food was lousy but the conversation was stimulating when the subject turned to...