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
Added energy
One of the great misconceptions about AC power is the difference between passive and active devices feeding your equipment. Manufacturers of passive AC devices like conditioners, low-Z suppliers of "added...
What's the plan?
The first day of the new year opens on a Monday. What's the plan for going forward? Same old? Something new? Something different? 2024 will be a big year for...
The last day
Today, December 31st, is the last day of the year. Seems exceptional. Special. But, if I didn't have a calendar to remind me, it is in fact a day like...
What we hope for
Buying a computer cable in our local Best Buy store the other day I found myself drawn over to their audio video section. There, an interested customer was being pitched by...
One person at a time
I have been writing these daily posts for about 13 years now. Just doing a simple bit of math suggests there are somewhere in the neighborhood of 4,700 of them. In writing...
The perfection myth
Perfect sound, like jumbo shrimp, deafening silence, and bittersweet are oxymorons: contradictory terms that form new meaning. Sound cannot be perfect because that would mean without any flaws or interactions...