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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We go to market
In December of 1985, my dear friend, and Stereophile reviewer, the late Anthony H. Cordesman, wrote of the PS Audio 200C amplifier designed by Dr. Bob: "The PS Audio 200C...
Big choices
With Arnie's blessing for the 200C's sound quality being in the "same" universe as his huge and exotic vacuum tube amplifiers (though not in the same league), we were thrilled. To...
The showdown
In the many decades that I have known my dear friend, the late Arnie Nudell, founder of Infinity and Genesis Technologies, only once have I been part of a new...
Putting it all together
Now that we understood Bob's amazing amplifier circuit it was time to build a new amplifier around it. Because it was rated at 200 watts per channel into 8Ω and...
A neat trick
Over a dinner of wonderful Mexican food (for my tastes, California has the best Mexican food—far better than what passes for that here in Colorado) and with the help of...
Secrets unveiled
Dr. Bob Odell's power amplifier squashed our best design efforts of that day. It didn't just sound better, it literally stomped the prototype amp Rick and I had labored over....