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
Live or reproduced?
Once you hear the real deal it's almost impossible to go back. Such was the experience I had relayed to you in yesterday's Paul's Post. It hadn't taken me long...
The revelation
In yesterday's post, I posited a gnarly problem. How to rely upon the sound of a speaker in order to achieve the perfect capture. After all, there's no such thing...
Listening to the source
One of the sticky problems that sometimes keeps me up at night is how to listen to the source. When making a recording of something complex, say a cymbal, we...
Skill vs. tools
It is always difficult to have to reject the hard work of anyone but, in the long run, it's critical to maintain standards. While auditioning a candidate recording we made...
The ears have it
It's both fascinating and refreshing to me getting deeper into the recording arts. Like High End Audio, the myths, legends, wisdom, and common knowledge base are a potpourri of fact...
Foxes and hen houses
There's plenty of good evidence that if we were to permit a fox to guard the proverbial henhouse that very shortly thereafter we'd have an empty house. Perhaps it's the...