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
Story time
We catalog and explain concepts like careers, hobbies, science, heritage, family, and even our stereo systems as stories. Stories help us wrap our heads around that which is unknown, complex,...
It's not meant for you
Not everything is going to fit you and your particular needs. Yet sometimes we get the wrong cues about the intended audience for a product or service. When that happens,...
SACD Transport
The Super Audio Compact Disc was Sony and Philip's follow-up format to the original Compact Disc—itself an innovation that fundamentally changed the world forever. It's hard to get lightning to...
Closest to accurate
Despite the fact we use some of the most expensive in the world, a microphone's output isn't even close to what I hear in person. And this charade of realism...
Abstinence
"Total abstinence is so excellent a thing that it cannot be carried to too great an extent. In my passion for it I even carry it so far as to...
Side by side
I think most of us are comfortable with side-by-side comparisons. Take two amplifiers and within the space of a few minutes decide which sounds more musical. Easy peezy. It gets...