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
MVP
When sports-minded people see the TLA MVP they naturally gravitate towards the acronym meaning Most Valuable Player. In our case, we're going to refer to another definition, one used in...
Wow and flutter
The terms wow and flutter will bring back memories of tape recorders to some, perhaps pictures of butterflies to others. Wow is a low-frequency fluctuation while flutter is a much...
Summer sounds
Imagine my surprise and delight when I received in the mail a card from a Mr. Joseph Pickel of New Jersey. Inside was the following note: "My grandmother worked for...
Fractions matter
In yesterday's post, we looked at long wavelength bass notes—some exceeding 50 feet in length. Today, let's have a look at their shorter cousins, high frequencies. Where bass frequencies are...
Working together
I am pretty certain few rooms support perfect bass. It's not that rooms are particularly biased against low frequencies, the problem is those pesky long wavelengths. Consider that a 20Hz...
Defining Personalities
We all like to imagine our choices in HiFi equipment are completely neutral, transparent, and without sonic colorations. Yet, we know that’s simply not true. Like it or not (and...