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
Starting from scratch
In early foot races, a line was scratched into the ground to mark the starting point for the runners. All participants began the race from this "scratch" line, ensuring that...
Hand crafting
Few (if any) of us went down to the local electronics store, grabbed an off the shelf receiver and matching speakers and called it a high-end system. In fact, for...
Greener grass
You know the old saying about the color of grass on the other side? It's a snarky saying suggesting that once you get to the other side the color's not...
DAC outs
I have been pretty vocal about the importance of the DAC's output stage. In fact, I have not been shy suggesting it is the most important sonic element in a...
The dawn of imaging
Back in the early 1970s, when I first began this long audio journey, there was no mention of the soundstage or image of a stereo system. Music was attached to the...
Hybrids
Boysenberries and Labradoodles are manufactured hybrids. Before someone got the wild hair to combine a blackberry, raspberry, and loganberry we did not have the tasty fruit—not to mention how before that fateful...