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
The MCA chrome job
After all my head banging and work to finally figure out the simplest of solutions to building a low noise, high speed moving coil amplifier, I finally had a circuit...
From obvious to aha!
I don't know about you, but in my life I have discovered that in order to move forward past a seemingly insurmountable problem there was a requisite amount of time...
The problem with obvious
How many times have I been led down the path of the obvious only to discover all the detours I should have been paying attention to? No doubt more times...
False summit
In yesterday's post we had finally discovered a magical transistor family that would soon become the standard devices in all our products. The Motorola MPS 8099/8599. This low cost transistor...
A most unusual suspect
In our ongoing posts about the design of the original PS Audio Moving Coil Preamplifier, a small box designed as a standalone step up amplifier to raise the output level...
Side effects
Why did the engineer break up with his girlfriend? Because he was always trying to find the "next great thing," but she just wanted to settle for a "stable relationship"!...