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
Too good to be true
In 1946, in an effort to sell more cigarettes, the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company created a Medical Relations Division and advertised it in medical journals. This division produced the following...
Les Paul
Modern music and the art of recording have much to thank the musician, Les Paul for. Lester William Polsfuss was born in 1915 and lived to the ripe old age...
Emotional engagement
Here's a good one for the measurement nerds in us all. How to quantify emotional engagement. How is it that a technically inferior technology like vinyl can often better engage...
Seeing vs. hearing
When it comes to capturing and reproducing dynamic range, audio has visual beat by a wide margin. The human ear is capable of about 140dB of dynamic range—the same as...
Critical thinking
You can find information and knowledge on just about any subject in the world. Just Google it. Have a math problem? There are online calculators at the click of a...
Diffusion
We'd all like our speakers to disappear and in their place enjoy the illusion of a deep and wide soundstage. Once heard, it can become addictive. One of the easiest...