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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The bark fix
In a recent post, The Bark Syndrome, I identified a problem that is difficult to pinpoint its source. Barking voices. You've no doubt experienced on multiple recordings the bark of...
The Bark Syndrome
When working within a complex system like that of a modern two-channel stereo, one of the most difficult tasks turns out to be accurate finger pointing. Identifying a specific culprit...
Swept away
I find it ironic that our goal as audiophiles is to forget the equipment and be swept away by the music. But, of course, that's the only goal that makes...
The price of scarcity
When something desirable is scarce its value increases. It's the old supply and demand theory we learned about in school. If more people want something than there is an available...
Ignoring the obvious
At first glance, it is not clear to us why an oversized power supply sounds better, or one cable sonically outperforms another. This is because not everything is obvious. It...
Very different vs. right or wrong
Octave Recording artist and trumpeter extraordinaire, Gabriel Mervine, notes near the end of this video that "vinyl sounds different. Very different." In fact, identical master recordings sound very different depending...