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
The guessing game
Interpolation is somewhat of an intimidating word. So too is upsampling. But, at the end of the day, both are just fancy terms for a way of making a digital...
When zero means something
We all agree zero means nothing, right? Have you ever noticed that in audio, we use zero as something? In a volume control or on a VU meter, 0dB means...
The great divide
In the 1960s, Acoustic Research (AR) faced tough competition from loudspeaker brands like JBL, Klipsch, and Altec Lansing, which dominated with large, visually impressive speakers known for powerful bass and...
Keys
Here's something I never thought would happen in my lifetime. No keys anymore. My home's front door opens with a code, the PS Audio Mothership opens with an electronic entry...
Physical media
I still love the idea of physical media but I am not certain why. With all the work we've done perfecting streaming through the AirLens, it isn't for sound quality...
What's wrong with feedback?
I often write about the evils of too much feedback in an audio circuit. But that's likely deceiving. Feedback on its own is a valuable tool. In the right hands...