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
Directional bass
I am guessing most of us know that below a certain frequency, say 40Hz or so, the clues we use to determine directionality disappear. Yet when listening to an orchestra on...
Like they used to
It puts a smile on my face whenever I hear someone lamenting "they don't make 'em like they used to." In general, that's a good thing: from cars to airplanes to...
Keeping score
I suppose in each of our systems we keep some sort of score. A ranking system, if you will. "My pride and joy is my loudspeakers. Someday I'll upgrade my...
In the beginning
As dedicated two-channel lovers, we're all indebted to the genius of one man, Alan Blumlein. But, how many of us know the brief story behind his tackling the then prevalent world...
Home runs
When we throw about terminologies describing engineering and setup practices it's often a disservice to the members of our HiFi Family. That's because it is assumed those hearing or reading such...
Drawing lines
As I've pointed out more than a few times, great speakers can magnify the inadequacies of lousy sources, and great sources cannot be fully appreciated through low resolving speakers. This observation makes...