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
Amplifying the silence
While it may sound counterintuitive, one of the goals we strive for in high-end audio design is magnifying the quiet areas of music. In the same way a skillful painter uses...
Emotional measurement
Can we measure an emotional response to music? This was the ultimate question on my short list of impossible measurement challenges but it turns out to be one of the...
Timbral accuracy
Is it possible to measure timbral accuracy? While frequency response measurements can tell us a lot, they don't fully convey how accurately an audio system reproduces the unique textures and...
Soundstage
In the realm of high-end audio, the quest to understand and quantify what we hear has been both a passion and a challenge for audiophiles and engineers alike. While we've...
Proof!
Over the next few days I am going to spend a minute riffing on that which cannot be proven—a subject of constant division between those of us who like to...
Bubbles
We all live in self imposed bubbles. Yup, even the most open minded and curious among us. We have to. There's just too much going on to be aware of...