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
Tweeter power
One of the ever-interesting subjects a lot of us get confused with is tweeter power. If your amplifier outputs 1,000 watts and most tweeters can only handle maybe 50 watts...
Intermodulation
When we think about distortion products we are generally referring to the harmonic kind. Harmonics are naturally occurring byproducts of sound: a plucked string will generate the intended frequency (called...
The RCA connector
I cannot imagine any reader of this blog that hasn't heard of the RCA connector. Designed in the 1940s by the Radio Corporation of America, its first use was to...
Simply So
Simple, cleaner, less cluttered. That’s the way we like our signal path, right? Less is more. In simpler days when vinyl was all there was, a clean and straight path...
The Importance Of Setup
Setting up a system takes a lot of work but it’s free. Outfitting a great system is easy, but it costs a lot of money. Which has the most value?...
The Beethoven problem
We all love our vinyl but let us not forget its many flaws. In particular, inner groove distortion. When vinyl spins the stylus follows in a spiral pattern. That spiral...