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
Setup Day
I am writing this today, April 11th, because tomorrow, the 12th, is day one of the Axpona HiFi show in Chicago. By the time you read this I'll be downstairs...
Changing sound
Ever notice how somedays your system sings while other days you're trying to figure out what went wrong? The environment we live in has a far greater influence on our...
Prove it!
One of the joys of getting older is harvesting our wealth of experience (often referred to as wisdom but that seems a bit presumptuous). Over the years we've been blessed, bitten,...
Expressions
All creatures telegraph to the world their emotional states. To express happiness a dog wags her tail, a cat purrs, we humans bare our teeth. Whenever someone new has a chance to...
Trade offs
I cannot think of much in our quest for audio nirvana that doesn't involve compromise—or the more acceptable term, trade offs (Compromise feels like we're giving up something while trade offs seems to...
Carbon copy
Before the widespread introduction of the plain paper copier in the 1970s, the only way to get a duplicate of a typewritten document was to make a carbon copy at the...