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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Subwoofer LFE
If you're running a home theater receiver or surround sound processor it's often tricky to get the subwoofer settings correct. Theater processors are almost always different than analog preamplifiers in...
Cross breeding
Purity is appreciated when it comes to purpose, water, and immorality. It's not so great when it comes to a power amplifier's architecture, where hybrids rule. For many years, amplifier...
What is standard?
In Australia, the moon is upside down. At least to my eyes. In the United States, the moon is upside down. At least to an Australian's eyes. Our view of...
Reverb
Reverb is short for the word reverberation. It's a method of adding "life" to an otherwise lifeless recording. You hear reverb mostly on voices. Recording studios add it when the...
Guide books
In all my years of designing, building, and playing around with stereo systems, when it comes to performance the two constants have always been equipment choices and setup. And setup...
Hard to imagine
When Stereophile reviewer Michael Fremer writes "on electric bass... the M1200 is a monster", he's not alone. More and more emails daily come across my screen extolling the virtues of...