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
Fingers crossed
I don't believe I was breathing at the moment I flipped the switch to power up my friend's $50K stereo system. No, I am pretty certain I was holding my...
Big ideas don't always work
Finally. After months of work, lots of thinking, tinkering, designing, and building, I was ready to see if this crazy idea of turning an 1,800 watt (capable) power amplifier into an...
Doubling down
After having gotten the perfect idea of how to build my own power generating station from engineer and audiophile, Doug Goldberg—connect a sine wave oscillator to an audio power amplifier—the...
Friends and colleagues
My nutso idea of using an electric motor tied to an electric generator to provide perfectly regulated and pure AC to stereo systems had been shot down within seconds of...
Crazy ideas
In 1989, a physics geek named Tim Berners-Lee had a problem: sharing documents with his colleagues was cumbersome and inefficient. A paper shuffle. At a time when few people owned...
Bad getting worse
In yesterday's post I had said that you can't unknow something and boy is that true. Once I had realized the main culprit to holding back the performance of our beloved...