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
Kind of says it all....
HiFi Family member Steve sent me the most telling picture of all time. Have a look. I can see by the photo's time stamp that in August of 1955,...
Music or kit?
One of the classic circular arguments in our hobby is what's more important, music or kit? We can't enjoy our gear without music and we can't enjoy music without our...
What drives us nuts
It doesn't matter where I am. If I spot a crooked picture or something just a little out of order I cannot pull my eye off of it. Drives me...
The challenge of transitions
Over the past few days we've been reviewing a bit of HiFi history that amplified (pun intended) the observation that transitional improvements lead to better audio. The examples were moving from...
In and outs
As long as we're ruminating about the historical progress of our equipment we would be remiss not to include the inputs and outputs. In the 70's and into the 80's...
Pulling the plug
In the early days of separates I cannot remember one amp, preamp, or turntable that had a removable power cord. In fact, they all had a lamp cord with a...