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
My new book!
It's been a long time since I've announced a new book I just published, but now it's time.I am delighted to let you know that the final book in the Eemian...
Microphones and speakers
I cannot think of a product more closely related to the challenges of choosing a loudspeaker than that of the microphone. Both microphones and loudspeakers are hardly flat transducers. In...
Musical types
How many times have I heard someone explain to me that their system shines when playing jazz or classical but kind of sucks on rock music? Or the opposite? Too...
When more is better
As a designer it's often difficult to know when to stop. Do I stop adding power supply capacitors to a design when there's enough to make it work the way...
Validation
Isn't it wonderful when your spouse or friend walks into the listening room and asks what happened? "The system sounds so much more real, lifelike. What did you do?" And...
Stuck?
Rarely do we consider downgrading our system. We've worked so hard to get our systems to sing that lowering their quality to better accommodate poor recordings is an obvious major step backwards....