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 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"!...
Building the impossible
Engineering can be maddening. Take for example the challenge I faced some 40 years ago. Back then, turntables and vinyl were king. There were no CD players, no personal computers....
Honeymoons
There's that magical period of time when everything's sweet and positive. The honeymoon. We can enjoy it with our new mates, cars, foods, job, and stereo system. The thrill of...