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
Scrubbed clean
Squeaky clean. Yup, that's how we like our dishes, hands, cars, and floors. Not so much our music. The idea of sterile sound—scrubbed clean—is not something I would look forward...
Setup and rooms
We all pay at least lip service to the importance of rooms and setup though I suspect in our heart of hearts we believe the components are really the key...
Dynamic surprise
The first time I listened to a Sheffield Labs direct to disc recording I experienced a dynamic surprise. A kick drum that seemed to come out of nowhere to pound...
Inspiration
Sometimes circumstances generate inspiration. Such is the case with the work we've been immersed in with Octave Records. For example, working now with microphones and ADCs has made me aware...
Pros vs. amatuers
If you need surgery you're probably not going to hire an amateur. You're going to want the best, the pro that's successfully operated on thousands. Technically, the difference between a...
Differing approaches
If two people are trying to get to the same destination but take differing routes, does it matter how they got there? I suppose the answer has to include some...