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
Adjectives vs. nouns
Near the end of summer Terri and I decided one way to get out of the house without worrying too much about being unsafe was to take advantage of Boulder's...
The character assassination of salt
We generally associate salt with unessential nice-to-have seasonings, condiments, and food enhancers. I would argue salt is instead a critical ingredient. Salt fundamentally changes food. It denatures the rigid structure...
Retail therapy
Color me appreciative of learning a new lexicon of terms, chief among them Covid-fatigue, and retail therapy. Laugh at my naivety if you will. Truth is, I don't get out...
Discrimination
All distortions are not created equally despite the fact we're told we should strive to have none. For example, harmonic is less objectionable than intermodulation, but if one simply weighs...
The illusion of fixed
Standing atop Flagstaff mountain, one of the highest points in Boulder Colorado, I feel anchored. Immovable. And yet I am intellectually aware that is but an illusion. That I am...
Tunnel lights
There's the old joke that one hopes the light at the end of the tunnel isn't an approaching train (something that actually happened to me and my son Sean once,...