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
Meet The Beta Testers
Getting a new product from concept to on-the-shelf is a long process. I don’t know of many PS products that take less than 1 year from start to finish and...
No Guarantees
“Flummoxed.” Now there’s a word you don’t hear that often, but it perfectly describes the problem so many people struggle with when it comes to sample rates and bit depths....
Lossie
The title of today's post might be a misspelling of a very famous collie or a word that should be expunged from audio's vocabulary. Lossie media files save bandwidth by...
And Speaking Of Compromise
In yesterday’s post on compromise, I laid out the differences between the two main types of phono cartridges, moving coil, and magnet. It didn’t take long for my mailbox to fill with...
Coils, magnets, and compromise
There's no free lunch when it comes to engineering. Every design is fraught with compromises to make it work. One great example is the differences between moving magnet and moving...
Reproduction
We’re said to be in the business of home audio reproduction. I wonder if that’s accurate. If we look at the definition of the word reproduction, it is to produce again....