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
Optimizing for gear
When we get a new piece of gear for evaluation it's helpful to optimize its contribution by experimenting with different cable and speaker positioning combinations. Consider that how your system...
Preservation of the arts
Our former director of engineering, Dave Pannanen, hand carves wooden spoons—a little-known skill handed down over generations of Pannanens. He whittles away in the quiet evening hours crafting gorgeous works...
Rolling the dice
A truly full-range loudspeaker is a rare bird. There simply aren't that many speaker models on the market that cover 20Hz to 20kHz. But here's the thing. Even if they...
Form follows personas
Have you ever noticed how our stereo systems seem to match our personalities? I am without question an over-the-top personality who leans to extremes and promotes an inclusive liberal bias...
The role of great recordings
Anyone can make a recording in the same way anyone can take a picture. All you need is a mobile phone. There are now multiple apps and add-on microphone options...
We love to judge
One of the readers of this daily post, Bernard, suggested I remind us of some famous words from Linn founder, Ivor Tiefenbrunn. “If you haven’t heard it, you don’t have...