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
Musicality
We're happiest when our systems sound musical—less HiFi'ish. Which reminds me of our goal to have the system itself disappear. Not just the speakers, but the whole kit and caboodle. Quite...
Formats and recordings
I hope we can agree that a great recording on a CD can blow the socks off a poor recording on a high resolution capture like DSD256. Which brings us...
Loudness as a tweak
For each track in your collection there's an ideal volume. A sweet spot in level where the system shines and the music is perfect. That sweet spot varies across systems, rooms, tracks,...
The irritation problem
In yesterday's post about critical listening I suggested that was a needed skill to get us in a good enough place to where we can relax and enjoy the music....
Critical listening
One of the great rewards of having everything in the system dialed in is the chance to relax and enjoy the music. No longer is it important to pay attention...
Compatibility, convention, and breadcrumbs
The good news of sticking with tried and true convention is it plays nice with everything. The bad news is it plays nice with everything. What's that mean? In a...