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
Bypass caps
48 years ago, in 1974, Stan Warren and I got an insider tip we considered at the time to be solid gold. Bypass caps. This was back in the days...
Changing of the guard
There's been a bit of kerfuffle lately about a video I made where I detailed my experience in changing vacuum tubes. I do it often. As often as every 6...
Stuck together
I don't often recommend films to our community because we all have such different tastes. Terri and I, for example, won't watch tragic or heavy films. We stick more to...
Doubling down
It is often difficult for people to grasp how balanced audio cables are 6dB louder than single-ended cables or how two channels of a stereo power amplifier can have double...
Magnetic symmetry
There was a time before digital audio came onto the field where we had magnetic symmetry. Our sources—both vinyl and tape—were magnetically coupled, while our playback too was driven by...
Defending the truth
Did you know there's a river in South America named after the world's largest online retailer? Truth or alternative fact? Today is my 74th birthday and my request from our...