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
Uncovering secrets
As a young lad, I remember staring at my grandfather's fireplace mantle where sat a majestic ship in a bottle. It was a three-mast schooner with big billowing white sails...
Tinkering
One hundred years ago a tinker was a traveling craftsman skilled in the art of metal repair. He would be invited into homes to repair eating utensils and small metal...
Election day
Terri and I voted weeks ago and placed our ballots in the Boulder ballot dropbox. We've already received email confirmation they were recorded and counted. One more important thing off...
Is louder better?
If we're playing a dynamic piece of music at a moderate level it's likely we'll not hear the soft parts of the score. A little compression would enable us to...
The FET
One of the most important secret weapons available to the high-performance stereo equipment designer is the Field Effect Transistor, better known as the FET. Originally envisioned by Austrian physicist Julius...
A sad event
Sadly, following a massive three-day fire at Japan's Nobeoka City factory of semiconductor producer Asahi Kasei Microsystems (AKM), we have lost one of the great audio houses. AKM was one...