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
An inside view
Casual listening, whether in the car or in your home, never gives us the chance to listen inside the music. That is a rare treat afforded only to those of us...
Magnitude differences
Here's a thought experiment for you. Take your favorite set of electronics: perhaps a BHK preamp and amp with a DirectStream DAC and all interconnected with Audioquest Dragons. For loudspeakers, we'll...
Judging by the datasheet
Imagine trying to judge how something will taste by its list of ingredients. Sure, blueberry jam's always going to taste like blueberries, but that's about as far as you can take...
Simple solutions
When dealing with complex engineering problems there are often cascading effects that can be really frustrating. Let's imagine you are designing the output stage of a preamp or DAC and you...
Critics
At our core, we're all critics. We evaluate our system's performance, the music we listen to, the tweaks we try, the setups we work hard at to maximize performance. But...
Bye, bye, amping
How many people these days bi-amp? I am guessing nearly no one. Bi-wiring, where you separate out the speaker cables into upper and lower frequencies is done all the time. But, bi-amping,...