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 speed of time
Most of us have figured out how variable the speed of time is. What's the old saying about watching a pot of water boil or staring at a tomato in...
Do no harm
When designing a new piece of equipment the hope and desire of the designer is to make something magical. To sound extraordinary. What in a circuit controls the level of...
Movie music
There aren't that many movies Terri and I feel comfortable watching. The bulk of releases these days seem either too violent, too stupid, too scary, too lame, too depressing, or...
Lossless
The world's first supercomputer, the CDC 6600, was launched in 1964 and designed by Seymour Cray. It had a processing speed of up to 3 million floating-point operations per second...
From witchcraft to understanding
I often get notes from folks exclaiming that what we as audiophiles do seems like witchcraft to them. That the idea of three dimensional sound detached from the speakers is...
Clearing the haze
Try as I might, my explanations of differences between formats lack a certain clarity. So when someone else writes a beautifully clear explanation of the differences between DSD and PCM I...